Bug 18363 – [GTK] Combo boxes cannot be opened pressing space

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: FIXED
• Component: WebKitGTK

[Marco Barisione]

In GTK combo boxes can be opened by pressing space when they are focused. I tried to implement this behaviour in WebKit but I got lost while debugging keyboard events handling :(

[Jan Alonzo]

*** Bug 26818 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Jan Alonzo]

Created attachment 32586 [details]
Take away space out of ARROW_KEYS_POP_MENU and into SPACE_POP_MENU for platforms that display the popup when spacebar is pressed

The patch takes away space (' ') out of ARROW_KEYS_POP_MENU and into SPACE_POP_MENU for platforms that want to display a popup menu when spacebar is pressed.

No change in behaviour except for Gtk.

[Eric Seidel (no email)]

Comment on attachment 32586 [details]
Take away space out of ARROW_KEYS_POP_MENU and into SPACE_POP_MENU for platforms that display the popup when spacebar is pressed

This looks like it will break mac.  You seem to want #if and #endif then another #if, not #elif

This also needs a manual test.

[Jan Alonzo]

Created attachment 32652 [details]
addressed eric's feedback and added a manual test

[Gustavo Noronha (kov)]

Comment on attachment 32652 [details]
addressed eric's feedback and added a manual test

Looks good to me, after the changes. While you're at it, you could also have enter also open the combo box, to match what GTK+ does. Should be a matter of adding || keyCode == 'r' to the if inside SPACE_POP_MENU. Make it SPACE_AND_RETURN_POP_MENU =P.

[Adam Barth]

Will land.

[Adam Barth]

On second thought, I probably should go to sleep...

[Jan Alonzo]

Created attachment 32984 [details]
updated: return key should popup the menu list too for gtk

[Holger Freyther]

(In reply to comment #8)
> Created an attachment (id=32984) [details]
> updated: return key should popup the menu list too for gtk

Now a ' ' will show the popup twice?

[Holger Freyther]

(In reply to comment #9)
> (In reply to comment #8)
> > Created an attachment (id=32984) [details] [details]
> > updated: return key should popup the menu list too for gtk
> 
> Now a ' ' will show the popup twice?

To be more precise this can happen when both ARROW_KEYS_POP_MENU and SPACE_OR_RETURN_POP_MENU are set. It should be mutual exclusive given that the current code is #if #else #endif and we turn it into #if #endif, #if #else #endif.

[Jan Alonzo]

Created attachment 33001 [details]
Make it if-elif-else-endif as suggested by Holger

[Holger Freyther]

Comment on attachment 33001 [details]
Make it if-elif-else-endif as suggested by Holger

OKay, the next thing boils down to taste. To reduce code duplication one could do

if (
#if SPACE_OR_..
keyCode == ' ' || keyCode == '\r'
#elif
keyCode == ' '
#endif
) {
  common Code
}

[Jan Alonzo]

(In reply to comment #12)
> (From update of attachment 33001 [details])

Landed as http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/46081

> OKay, the next thing boils down to taste. To reduce code duplication one could
> do
> 
> if (
> #if SPACE_OR_..
> keyCode == ' ' || keyCode == '\r'
> #elif
> keyCode == ' '
> #endif
> ) {
>   common Code
> }

I'll do this in a separate bug.