[Sugar-devel] [Dextrose] [PATCH sugar-toolkit] Cursor moves to beginning while trying to edit activity instance name #2608

[Sascha Silbe]

Excerpts from Bernie Innocenti's message of Tue Feb 15 21:19:57 +0100 2011:

> The above patch isn't sufficient in this race-condition between the user
> typing and the metadata update: even if we reset the cursor position to
> the right place, the text that we set back into the widget is likely to
> miss one or two keystrokes from the user.

How is that possible? We don't use threads or multiple processes, so
X events don't get processed while this code runs.

> We must absolutely avoid triggering a save while the user could still be
> typing in the widget, [...]

I agree we should. Saving each minor change to the data store while the
user is still typing is definitely a bad idea.

Sascha

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