[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#10917) connect to LAN game - GUI bug

["Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa" <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=10917 >

On Sat, 6 Nov 2004, Jason Short wrote:
> <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=10917 >
>
> Christian Knoke wrote:
> > <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=10917 >
> >
> >
> > CVS 06 NOV 2004 S2 GTK2
> >
> > It is very hard here to select the LAN server in this window. The selction
> > tends to disappear at once. I need a calm hand and two attempts at least to
> > select it, but only, if I hold the mouse button down for seconds.
>
> This is already in RT somewhere.  The LAN tab polls for servers every
> 1/10 of a second or so, and every poll overwrites the existing server
> list which destroys the selection.
>
> This is a significant bug but I don't have enough GTK knowledge to fix
> it and nobody else seems to care.
>
> One work-around is to just wait.  After 5-10 seconds the polling stops
> and then you can select properly.  Note also that a single selection is
> enough for things to work.  You can't double-click like you do in the
> other dialog but you can press the "connect" button.

I never got any servers to show in the list anyway. So kind of hard for
me to test something like this, even if I added it.

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Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa