[Lazarus] TStringGrid and cancelling a modal form

[zeljko]

On 03/12/2018 06:25 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd via Lazarus wrote:
> Running on (Debian) Linux on AMD64 or ARM, Lazarus 1.6.4 and FPC 3.0.2, 
> I'm seeing different behaviour depending on whether a program uses Qt or 
> GTK2. The program changes the hardware configuration of a mouse 
> (Logitech G600) using hidraw, and as such needs to run with root 
> privilege (e.g. kdesudo or sudo -E).
> 
> On the main form I've got (a tabbed notebook containing multiple 
> instances of) a TStringGrid. The OnSelection event invokes a modal form 
> (containing nothing of significant complexity) with OK and Cancel 
> buttons, and stripped down looks like this:
> 
> procedure TFormLG600.StringGridMode1UnshiftedSelection(Sender: TObject; 
> aCol, aRow: Integer);
> 
> begin
> {...}
>    if ButtonsAndKeys.ShowModal() = mrOk then begin
> {...}
>    end
> end;
> 
> This is fine if built for Qt, but if built for GTK2 what I see is that 
> after the modal form is exited any mouse activity over the grid appears 
> to cause an erratic multicell selection and the modal form immediately 
> pops up again. This is reproducible if the Cancel button is pressed, and 
> in at least some cases after OK.
> 
> I've seen indeterminate discussion of this in the foramina, and have 
> followed up the indicated wiki pages etc. Does anybody have any 
> suggestions, preferably not along the lines of "don't use GTK2" since I 
> was thinking of sticking this on Sourceforge and that restriction would 
> probably be unpopular?
> 

hmm, try LCLIntf.SetCapture(0) after closing modal form , just to 
isolate capture problems.

zeljko