Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> writes: > In tracking down a problem with the latest gnubg (GNU Backgammon) game > that occurred only with the 3D board, I think I've found a fairly > serious issue with GtkGlExt. It appears that motion_notify_event is > not being delivered properly in GL drawing areas.
> This can be duplicated with the examples that come with the gtkglext > package. I unpacked the source package, built it with debian/rules > build, ran make examples (which then failed on viewlw, which apparently > doesn't compile), and then started the shapes example. When I click on > the shape and drag, nothing happens; from the source, rotation seems to > be the expected behavior. > Similarly, if I run make scribble-gl and then run it, each time I click > in the canvas, I get a single square, but clicking and dragging just > produces a square at the starting point and no line. > I've only tried this on a single system, so I suppose there's some > chance this is a peculiarity of this particular system somehow. I'm > going to try on another system tomorrow. This seems like a rather > fundamental problem to go unnoticed this long, so I'm wondering if I'm > missing something.... Maybe there was some recent change to GTK+ that > caused this problem? I've confirmed that this bug also affects amd64. I suspect that the GtkGlExt package is generally broken for mouse motion events right now, although I have no idea what the root cause is. I see some changes related to event handling went into recent point versions of GTK+; maybe they're somehow related? -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
