This week was mostly spent trying to fix GWindow’s mac implementation. I wasn’t able to figure out a full fix, but I advanced the debugging process a fair bit. I patched the exception that was causing the tests to fail and crash, but a new issue arose: ghost windows. The tests were creating grey, empty windows that weren’t closing until the UT project finished. I narrowed down the issue to how we’re handling fullscreen windows - whenever a fullscreen window is created or a window is reconfigured to become fullscreen, it leaves behind a ghost window.
Some of these windows seem to be created from a timing issue - if you create a fullscreen window but delete it before it has the chance to finish the fullscreen animation, it spawns a ghost window. This can be fixed by delaying the deletion until the window is finished animating. But other times, even if the window is given ample time to finish the animation it still spawns a ghost window. I met with Lari yesterday to pair-debug the issue, and we decided that it would be a better use of the month I have left before graduating to work on the GTemplates pipeline instead - this mac issue is going to require a deeper understanding than I can get quickly, and we want to capitalize on the fact that I’ve already become familiar with Gateware’s CI/CD process.
So I did what I could to leave the GWindow mac problem in a better state than I found it - I made sure to document our findings on the Gitlab issue card and I set up the branch to clearly recreate the problem. Hopefully whomever this task is assigned to in the future will have an easier go of it than I have.
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