Intended popup behaviour with edit-text widget, with cancelPopups="no"?

[clutterstack]

I'm playing with popups, and I see that if I invoke a popup with a button, then while that one is open, try to invoke one by focusing an edit-text widget, the edit-text widget's popup appears momentarily, then vanishes (and the pre-existing popup remains).

Setting the cancelPopups attribute of the edit-text widget to "yes" prevents this, but I'm wondering if there's an intended use-case for the default scenario.

[Jermolene]

Hi @clutterstack how are you invoking the popup? Using the popup=foo attribute? Do you get the same behaviour on v5.2.0-prerelease and the current v5.1.23 version?

[clutterstack]

Hi Jeremy,

I was using popup=foo with the button widget, but it works the same if I get the sidebar search to show a dropdown. So I paste the following in a new tiddler either at https://tiddlywiki.com/ or at https://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease/, put a few characters into the search to get a results popup, and click into the edit-text widget's input element.

I didn't catch this before, but the behaviour of the edit-text popup with a preexisting popup is very like its general behaviour if class="tc-popup-handle" is omitted: the popup disappears on release of the mouse button.

<$vars popstate=<<qualify "testpopstate">>>
<$edit-text tiddler=<<qualify "$:/state/test/edittext-text">> class="tc-popup-handle" focusPopup=<<popstate>> tag="input"/>

<$reveal state=<<popstate>> type="popup">Edit-text's popup
</$reveal>

<<popstate>>: {{{[<popstate>get[text]]}}}<br>

</$vars>

I was wondering whether it has something to do with the click handler that's added at the end of Popup.prototype.show(). If I'm reading this right:

If there's an existing popup before the edit-text one is added on focus, then if Popup.prototype.handleEvent() gets invoked somehow on mouseup, we could have cancel(level) invoked when level=1 and numPopups=2, which then would pop the last popup -- the edit-text one -- off the popups array and delete its tiddler.

If we had no pre-existing popups and omit the class="tc-popup-handle", then we'd have level=0 and numPopups=1, which results in the same thing if cancel() gets invoked on mouseup: losing the popup.

I didn't think the click event would fire if the handler was added after the mousedown -- but I'm not confident, and haven't gone through all the code for the editor.

Edit: grammar!

[clutterstack]

@Jermolene I should point out that I don't need popups from the edit-text widget without cancelPopups="yes". I was just trying to understand popups, and this seemed odd.