JideSplitButton appears selected invalidly

[ricky_clarkson]

Hi,

Drag the mouse from the button part of a JideSplitButton into the down-arrow part (where you click to make the drop-down menu appear) and release it. Do not allow the mouse to leave the JideSplitButton's area. The button part stays depressed, as if the mouse was still being dragged.

Here is some code to run to test this with:

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import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import com.jidesoft.swing.*;

class Main
{
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        JFrame frame = new JFrame();
        frame.setLayout(new GridLayout());
        final ButtonGroup group = new SplitButtonGroup();

        for (int a = 0; a < 5; a++)
        {
            final JideSplitButton button = new JideSplitButton(""+a);
            button.add("Item");
            button.setButtonStyle( JideSplitButton.TOOLBOX_STYLE );
            group.add(button);
            frame.add(button);
        }

        frame.pack();
        frame.setVisible(true);
    }
}


If you have any suggestions, fixes or workarounds, or can't reproduce it, please let me know. I plan to look at the source to find the cause, but I'd guess it's a mouseDragged storing some state that doesn't get cleaned up. It doesn't help that the source does not build as-is. I guess someone doesn't realise there are other OSs besides OS X: "/home/ricky/jide/jide-oss/src/com/jidesoft/plaf/aqua/AquaJidePopupMenuUI.java:[9,16] package apple.laf does not exist".

This is my first post; if I don't respond to an answer it could be that I've misconfigured something here; feel free to send me email at ricky.clarkson@gmail.com if I'm slow.

[JIDE Support]

I don't think this is a bug. You didn't add any menu items to the split button. Once you add some, you will see the menu items are shown in a drop down menu while the button is pressed. It should remain pressed unless you click in other place or press ESCAPE key. In the other word, just like a JMenu.

To compile the source code, you just need to include laf.jar which is included in the svn of JIDE Common Layer under libs folder.

[ricky_clarkson]

If I didn't add any items, then what does this line of code from my original message do?

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button.add("Item");

"Once you add some, you will see the menu items are shown in a drop down menu while the button is pressed."

While the drop-down arrow button is pressed, but not the main button part.

It certainly should not behave in the way I described, where the appearance differs if you release the mouse over the menu drop-down arrow than if you release it over the button portion. Do you fail to reproduce the problem?

[JIDE Support]

I really don't think it is a bug if we are talking about the same thing. When you press the down arrow, the whole split button will appear as sunken and remain sunken as long as the drop down menu is visible. You can try a split button in MS Office2003 which behaves the same way.

Thanks,

[ricky_clarkson]

I forgot to mention, the build error I mentioned was from running mvn clean install. If there's a required jar, perhaps the pom.xml should mention that in its dependencies section. I deleted plaf/aqua (before you replied) and the rest built fine.

[ricky_clarkson]

In no part of my description of the problem did I mention pressing the down arrow. Start dragging from the normal button part, and drag the mouse to the down arrow, and release the mouse. Do not start the drag on the down arrow or otherwise press it.

[JIDE Support]

Never mind. I think I reproduced the problem. Yes, you are correct. The behavior is not correct. We will take a look and fix it. Sorry for the confusion.

[ricky_clarkson]

I see from svn that this has been fixed, and I've verified the fix. After a false start I'm impressed!

When should I expect to see this in something usable via the central maven repos?

[JIDE Support]

Yes, we indeed fixed it. We will have a stable release in a week or so.

[JIDE Support]

Just so you know, this bug is fixed in 2.5.8 which was just released.

Thanks,