New subject: [Bug 27502] app freezes when WM_KILLFOCUS creates modal dialog

16 Jun 2011


      http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27502
Summary: app freezes when WM_KILLFOCUS creates modal dialog
           Product: Wine
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: user32
        AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org
        ReportedBy: efrias@syncad.com
Created an attachment (id=35159)
 --> (http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=35159)
simple example which produces the error
When a program brings up a modal dialog box in response to a WM_KILLFOCUS
message, the program will freeze.  I've attached a simple test case, all
boilerplate except for:
    case WM_KILLFOCUS:
            MessageBox(hWnd, _T("Killing Focus"), _T("Note"), MB_OK);
in the main event loop.  If you run the program and then give focus to another
application, the messagebox will pop up and then the program will become
unresponsive.
What is happening is:
    - x11drv gets a FocusOut event and calls the event handler, which ends up
SendMessage-ing a WM_KILLFOCUS to the program.
    - The programs's code creates a modal dialog like the MessageBox above, and
enters the dialog's event loop, which winds up calling GetMessage which calls
MsgWaitForMultipleObjectsEx to get more X11 events.
    - X11DRV_MsgWaitForMultipleObjectsEx executes this:
            if (data->current_event) mask = 0;  /* don't process nested events
*/
      where data->current_event is true since we're still handling the FocusOut
event.  Since we're not processing nested events, we'll never be able to
process the usual events like keys or mouse events which could exit this nested
event loop.
This type of error occurs in a few places in our application, where a
WM_KILLFOCUS message to an edit box triggers some input validation and displays
an error on failure.  This works correctly in the normal case, where the user
tabs out or clicks on another control in the dialog box containing the edit
control -- since everything stays in the same top-level window, there is no
FocusOut event from X11 and the WM_KILLFOCUS is generated internally by wine in
response to, say, a KeyEvent.  I think these key or mouse events are just
posted to the windows message queue, and the X11 event handler has already
exited by the time the application gets around to processing the ensuing
WM_KILLFOCUS.  But in the case where focus is lost by clicking outside the
dialog containing the edit control, the WM_KILLFOCUS is generated by the
FocusOut handler which is still executing, and we lock up.
I suspect this is related to bug 11595 "Notepad++ freezes if native application
changes a file it has open (dogfood)".  My guess is in that case, a FocusIn
event triggers something like a WM_ACTIVATE, in which notepad++ notices a file
is changed and displays a messagebox asking if you want to reload.  Since wine
is still processing the FocusIn event, the modal message loop's call to
MsgWaitForMultipleObjectsEx will never process any useful events because it's a
nested event.  Our application's built-in text editor has this same problem.
I don't understand the event handling code well enough to propose a solution. 
As a test, I allowed nested event processing and it solved the problem without
introducing any obvious errors, but I'm sure that check was in there for a
reason.  It's probably better to keep the application code from being executed
from inside the event handler, if that's possible.
Note: this bug was also posted as a message to wine-devel here:
http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2011-June/090652.html
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