Re: Request for help: Dragging windows without Periodic Events

[Serg Stoyan]

Hello Michael,

> Hi,
> 
> Alex Malmberg came up with an event loop that does not use periodic
> events, but still is responsive on slow machines. With his help I've got
> NSMenuTitleView using this loop, however, on my machine I can't drag the
> menus very long before the menus start jumping all over the place.
> Dragging at a good clip causes the menus to leap right off the screen.
> Somehow the mouse location information is getting corrupted in the
> backend and when we use that information the menu gets screwy.
> 
> (XGServerWindow.m placewindow: seems to be part of the problem.)
> 
> I've tried to trace this to where the actual problem begins, but I have
> been unsuccessful. I attached the latest patch, which should apply
> cleanly to an up-to-date CVS pull, and I'd appreciate if some of the
> other "menu hackers" would take a look at this and test it on their
> setups.

  I'll look at this soon.

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Serg Stoyan