Drawing of alert box broken and not big enough (at least on Windows XP)

[DennisKehrig]

The last one indicates that parts of the screen are simply not drawn. It was taken after changing the theme, part of what Windows was drawing is still in the buffer there.

[peterflynn]

I think there's a similar problem with confirm(), but I can't find the bug number offhand...

[pthiess]

Reviewed, assigned to @DennisKehrig , we probably need to file a bug against CEF.

[DennisKehrig]

Goes back to Sprint 13, i.e. when we switched to the new shell.

[DennisKehrig]

This is CEF issue #760. Unfortunately, there's no fix in sight.

[njx]

OK. Let's leave it at "tracking" for now and wait to see if they do anything about it.

[njx]

@DennisKehrig -- could you post a comment to the bug just so they know more people are being affected by this? Thanks.

[DennisKehrig]

@njx Sure, it's done!

[custa1200]

Are Adobe people working on any issues and submitting them as patches back to CEF as part of this or other projects?

[njx]

Yes--the bulk of our contributions have been to CodeMirror, but I believe we've submitted a few bugfixes to CEF as well.

[custa1200]

Good to hear that my Cloud subscription is helping contribute to the CEF project. :)

[DennisKehrig]

This seems to happen with menus, too, The help menu has a white border because I hovered the mouse cursor over it shortly before.

[peterflynn]

@DennisKehrig what OS are you on? Menu rollovers look fine for me on Win XP & 8. But I notice the titlebar has a non-default appearance... are you running some sort of custom visual theme? Or is that just one of the non-"glass" Vista themes?

[DennisKehrig]

It's XP with the Luna Royale theme. Not sure where that is from originally, but I haven't seen this problem in any other applicaation.

[DennisKehrig]

Curious, I changed the theme to Windows classic, then back to Luna Royale, and the problem is gone (even across Brackets restarts). Before, not even Windows restarts fixed it. But obviously it's not easy to reproduce, then...

[peterflynn]

Sounds like that should be broken out as a separate bug -- I'm pretty sure it's unrelated to the alert() box problem.

[DennisKehrig]

I'm not so sure, since it's also about stuff not being properly redrawn. But I'll do that should it return - until then I have no idea how we could diagnose let alone fix this.

[ghost]

Hi i am new to github and was going to post about this as it's happening for me also. If i use alert("") then the popup it makes cannot be closed with it's top right close icon and also the button is hidden and i only see the very top of it like the images posted here. I use Windows XP with the default "Energy Blue" theme and some modified settings like no animation but i don't think this is a issue caused by the themes.

Before i realized the button was just about clickable i was having to force Brackets to close but it would be nice if it appeared the same way as it does with a regular browser.

Edit - I am not sure if it makes any difference as i don't know how often it is updated but i used the installer rather than building myself but issue is happening every time i use alert("") in extensions.

[ghost]

This is what i see if anyone was interested -

[DennisKehrig]

Curious that the Close button doesn't work, but I can confirm it.
You can however still hit Enter or Space to press the OK button.

[DennisKehrig]

If I read the comment in the bugtracker correctly, this will be fixed with the "next" CEF release. Yay!

[njx]

Closing - we don't use native alert dialogs in Brackets anyway and XP is not a huge proportion of our user base.