Re: GUI window menus don't "open" (macOS)

[Friedrich Beckmann]

Hi Sebastion,

thanks for the feedback. Good to know that pspp needs a more recent X Server.

Friedrich

> Am 07.11.2016 um 19:04 schrieb Sebastian Winkler <address@hidden>:
> 
> Hi Friedrich
> Just a quick heads up: today I updated to XQuartz 2.7.11 and the issue seems 
> to be resolved.
> Best regards,
> Sebastian
> 
> 
> From: Sebastian Winkler <address@hidden>
> Reply: Sebastian Winkler <address@hidden>
> Date: 20 October 2016 at 19:05:21 
> To: Friedrich Beckmann <address@hidden>
> Subject:  Re: GUI window menus don't "open" (macOS) 
> 
>> Hi Friedrich
>> 
>> I went from native 1280×800 to 1152×720. In that lower resolution the menus 
>> displayed normally. After switching back to the superior resolution the 
>> correct behavior was maintained until quitting XQuartz.
>> 
>> I am quite positive that the flickering rectangles are misplaced vestiges of 
>> the not-appearing menus, as they show the very instance a menu title is 
>> triggered and have different widths analogous to the respective menus. 
>> (Regarding their height, I have the impression that they are cropped by the 
>> top boundary of the main window.)
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> Sebastian
>> 
>> 
>> Sebastian Winkler
>> R. Cap. Filipe Sousa 89-1 | 2500-140 Caldas da Rainha | Portugal
>> fix: +351.262 092 250 | mobile: [pt]+351.934 414 733, [de]+49.15 140 357 453
>> 
>> From: Friedrich Beckmann <address@hidden>
>> Reply: Friedrich Beckmann <address@hidden>
>> Date: 19 October 2016 at 23:41:38
>> To: Sebastian Winkler <address@hidden>
>> Cc: pspp-users <address@hidden>
>> Subject:  Re: GUI window menus don't "open" (macOS)
>> 
>>> Hi Sebastian,
>>> 
>>> thanks for your report. I think the flickering rectangle during startup is 
>>> the „startup screen“ which is supposed
>>> to show up during program load. On my macbook this is also only a short 
>>> white rectangle. However your change
>>> in screen resolution seems to be important. Could you tell me which screen 
>>> resolution you use
>>> 
>>> a) The resolution which shows the problem
>>> b) The resolution that you used to remove the problem
>>> 
>>> Regards
>>> 
>>> Friedrich
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> Am 19.10.2016 um 23:13 schrieb Sebastian Winkler <address@hidden>:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi Friedrich,
>>>> I am now running Sierra, but the problem first surfaced under El Capitan 
>>>> (with both: 0.10.2 and 0.10.4).
>>>> echo $LANG in Terminal yields an empty line.
>>>> I deactivated pspp-devel and installed pspp, but the problem remains.
>>>> But I found another interesting workaround (apart from installing a more 
>>>> recent version of Inkscape which may not at all times be so readily 
>>>> available): I noticed that PSPP’s main window would always be drawn 
>>>> partially off-screen. Also, there is a white, rectangular flickering, 
>>>> possibly the size of the menu, visible in the upper left corner of the 
>>>> screen, the first time I try to activate it. (After the first attempt, the 
>>>> flickering is reduced to the single uppermost left pixel of the screen.) 
>>>> So I thought that screen layout — I only use one screen — and size may be 
>>>> an issue and that PSPP was trying to draw the menus somewhere where they 
>>>> don’t belong. Anyway, I changed the screen resolution (to the next lower 
>>>> option) and that made the menus work correctly. And they continue to work 
>>>> after changing the resolution back, until quitting XQuartz.
>>>> This finding also corroborates with the error messages I included in my 
>>>> first mail.
>>>> I hope this is helpful.
>>>> Best regards,
>>>> Sebastian
>>>> 
>>>>  
>>>> Sebastian Winkler 
>>>> R. Cap. Filipe Sousa 89-1 | 2500-140 Caldas da Rainha | Portugal
>>>> fix: +351.262 092 250 | mobile: [pt]+351.934 414 733, [de]+49.15 140 357 
>>>> 453
>>>> 
>>>> From: Friedrich Beckmann <address@hidden>
>>>> Reply: Friedrich Beckmann <address@hidden>
>>>> Date: 19 October 2016 at 18:32:26 
>>>> To: Sebastian Winkler <address@hidden>
>>>> Cc: pspp-users <address@hidden>
>>>> Subject:  Re: GUI window menus don't "open" (macOS) 
>>>> 
>>>>> Hi Sebastian,
>>>>> 
>>>>> thanks for trying the pspp stand-alone bundle. Could you tell me which 
>>>>> MacOS version
>>>>> you run? I only tried this on ElCapitan and it would be interesting to 
>>>>> see how it works
>>>>> on other MacOS Versions.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Regarding the macports installation, could you maybe try 
>>>>> 
>>>>> echo $LANG
>>>>> 
>>>>> in a terminal window, i.e. not in pspp? 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Could you uninstall pspp-devel and try the pspp package?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Regards
>>>>> 
>>>>> Friedrich
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Am 19.10.2016 um 19:06 schrieb Sebastian Winkler <address@hidden>:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hi Friedrich,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> thank you answering.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> My setup uses the stand-alone XQuarz application [XQuartz 2.7.9 
>>>>>> (xorg-server 1.17.4)]. (“port install pspp-devel” installed a whole 
>>>>>> bunch of xorg executables, but xorg-server is not among them.)
>>>>>> “xlogo” logo launches said XQuarz installation, so it seems to be 
>>>>>> configured correctly.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Before writing earlier today, I completely reinstalled MacPorts and also 
>>>>>> substituted the XQuarz installation from a fresh download. The problem 
>>>>>> has persisted between various reboots (and a major system upgrade).
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> As for the language configuration, I have this curious output to offer:
>>>>>> PSPP> echo $LANG
>>>>>> .6-10: Fehler: ECHO: Syntax Fehler bei `$LANG': erwarte Zeichenkette.
>>>>>> So $LANG seems to be undefined, but pspp speaks German anyway.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I have since downloaded and tested your 0.10.2 stand-alone bundle which, 
>>>>>> comfortingly, works fine (including displaying in English). I had given 
>>>>>> up using the precompiled bundles as they had previously stopped being 
>>>>>> maintained. Anyway, I thus have working PSPP installation now, which 
>>>>>> does turn the case much less urgent. :)
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>>> Sebastian
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>  
>>>>>> Sebastian Winkler 
>>>>>> R. Cap. Filipe Sousa 89-1 | 2500-140 Caldas da Rainha | Portugal
>>>>>> fix: +351.262 092 250 | mobile: [pt]+351.934 414 733, [de]+49.15 140 357 
>>>>>> 453
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> From: Friedrich Beckmann <address@hidden>
>>>>>> Reply: Friedrich Beckmann <address@hidden>
>>>>>> Date: 19 October 2016 at 16:31:54 
>>>>>> To: Sebastian Winkler <address@hidden>
>>>>>> Cc: address@hidden <address@hidden>
>>>>>> Subject:  Re: GUI window menus don't "open" (macOS) 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Hi Sebastian, 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> thanks for your problem report. I have just tried psppire from the 
>>>>>>> latest 
>>>>>>> installation of macports on my macbook pro. I have installed: 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> xorg-server 1.18.4_1 
>>>>>>> pspp 0.10.2 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> both in the X11 variants from macports. I cannot see missing menus. 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Could you maybe describe your setup in more detail? 
>>>>>>> Which version of the XServer are you using? 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Could you check the remarks in the section "Comparison to the MacPorts 
>>>>>>> pspp version“ 
>>>>>>> here: https://www.hs-augsburg.de/~beckmanf/pspp/ regarding the correct 
>>>>>>> setup of the 
>>>>>>> startup configuration? 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Regarding the language setting, could you tell us what 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> echo $LANG 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> shows as a result for your LANG environment variable? 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Regards 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Friedrich 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> > Am 19.10.2016 um 13:44 schrieb Sebastian Winkler <address@hidden>: 
>>>>>>> >  
>>>>>>> > Greetings 
>>>>>>> >  
>>>>>>> > In both, PSPP 0.10.2 and 0.10.4, the menus' contents on the data 
>>>>>>> > editor window are not displayed. 
>>>>>>> > Following messages keep reoccurring in the terminal output: 
>>>>>>> >  
>>>>>>> > (psppire:19211): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 
>>>>>>> > gtk_widget_get_preferred_height_for_width: assertion 'width >= 0' 
>>>>>>> > failed 
>>>>>>> >  
>>>>>>> > (psppire:19211): Gtk-WARNING **: Negative content width -11 
>>>>>>> > (allocation 1, extents 6x6) while allocating gadget (node menuitem, 
>>>>>>> > owner GtkModelMenuItem) 
>>>>>>> >  
>>>>>>> > (psppire:19211): Gtk-WARNING **: GtkAccelLabel 0x7f9b390ef1f0 
>>>>>>> > attempted to adjust its size allocation from 29,1972632292 
>>>>>>> > 1x986316136 to 29,-1829176943 1x14. adjust_size_allocation must keep 
>>>>>>> > allocation inside original bounds 
>>>>>>> >  
>>>>>>> > This is occurring on macOS 10.12, but was manifest, before upgrading, 
>>>>>>> > on macOS 10.11, too. 
>>>>>>> > To test if all XQuartz applications were affected I installed a 
>>>>>>> > current version of Inkscape, which had the following curious effect: 
>>>>>>> > When launching PSPP directly after running Inkscape for the first 
>>>>>>> > time — which is said to perform some GUI optimizations — the menus 
>>>>>>> > all of a sudden did display fine. But after quitting and relaunching 
>>>>>>> > XQuartz, the previous behavior (no menus) resumed. Launching Inkskape 
>>>>>>> > again had no effect. 
>>>>>>> >  
>>>>>>> > Another possibly unrelated point of curiosity is that psppire runs in 
>>>>>>> > German, which it has never done before — my system is running in 
>>>>>>> > English, although I have specified German as my second preferred 
>>>>>>> > language in the systems “International” preference pane. 
>>>>>>> >  
>>>>>>> > I hope this is the right forum to post this sort of issues to, 
>>>>>>> > Otherwise, if you please, point me in the right direction. 
>>>>>>> > Thanks you all, 
>>>>>>> > Sebastian 
>>>>>>> >  
>>>>>>> >  
>>>>>>> >  
>>>>>>> > Sebastian Winkler  
>>>>>>> > R. Cap. Filipe Sousa 89-1 | 2500-140 Caldas da Rainha | Portugal 
>>>>>>> > fix: +351.262 092 250 | mobile: [pt]+351.934 414 733, [de]+49.15 140 
>>>>>>> > 357 453 
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