GH text panel loses focus

[Joseph_Oster]

There is an EXTREMELY OLD and very annoying BUG in R7 (though it goes way back) having to do with GH text panels. GH becomes completely unresponsive at times UNTIL the “correct” text panel is located and manipulated in some way, usually by drag-scrolling it. No other component can be selected and the canvas cannot be moved.

I don’t use R8 often enough to know if it’s finally been fixed in R8? I can’t provide an example because it can’t be reproduced (and doesn’t survive file-save-quit). I frequently use GH text panels as debugging tools so this is driving me crazy!!!

P.S. I suspect that unintentional mouse clicks might trigger the problem? Wish I could stop that.

[Japhy]

That is going to be a tough one unless we can figure out the steps to repeat.

It’s the panel capturing the mouse event, like David describes here..

Why I cannot move a custom component?

@Dani_Abalde’s advice is probably what you need. Let me elaborate on the GH_ObjectResponse enum meanings. If you return Ignore, then the event (be it mousemove, mouseup, mousedoubleclick, whatever) will be passed on to the next object. If all objects ignore the event, then the canvas may choose to handle it. In the case of mouse-down, it may start a Drag interaction or a Window select, depending on where and what. If you return Handled, it means you did something and since each UI event should…

Any interaction that lands a clean MouseUp on the capturing object should clear it (dragging the scrollbar)