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06/28/2017

09:42 PM Feature #1834: implement direct manipulation (drag and drop)

The additional experimenting performed to find out the right approach to easily and more effective insert mouse direc... Eugenie Lyzenko

06/27/2017

05:12 PM Feature #3236: implement port range support for the web client's embedded web server

Hynek Cihlar wrote:
> Obviously the time condition in @isRequiredToRedirect()@ is there to distinguish the case when... Sergey Ivanovskiy

02:47 PM Feature #3236: implement port range support for the web client's embedded web server

No, it has an issue with the requirement to reconnect to the web client if the network is temporarily down and then i... Sergey Ivanovskiy

01:58 PM Feature #3236: implement port range support for the web client's embedded web server

Thank you, it simplifies the current logic. It seems that it should work as we expected. Sergey Ivanovskiy

01:31 PM Feature #3236: implement port range support for the web client's embedded web server

Obviously the time condition in @isRequiredToRedirect()@ is there to distinguish the case when the page loads right a... Hynek Cihlar

12:05 PM Feature #3236: implement port range support for the web client's embedded web server

Greg,
>5. What happens of the MSG_QUIT comes back from the JS side before the driver.shutdown() has completed? Thi... Sergey Ivanovskiy

06/26/2017

06:44 PM Feature #3236: implement port range support for the web client's embedded web server

Committed revision 11164 added new options to the directory: @forwardedHost@, @forwardedProto@ and @virtalDesktopEnab... Sergey Ivanovskiy

04:13 PM Feature #3236: implement port range support for the web client's embedded web server

Ok, understand, I will add the existing functionality for this case too. Sergey Ivanovskiy

04:09 PM Feature #3236: implement port range support for the web client's embedded web server

Yes, this is actually the most important type of client because most (if not all) customers will be using this approa... Greg Shah

04:05 PM Feature #3236: implement port range support for the web client's embedded web server

Thank you, I see it now. Is it required to implement the port range for this type of clients too? Now they are skipped. Sergey Ivanovskiy

03:56 PM Feature #3236: implement port range support for the web client's embedded web server

See @hotel_gui/embedded/src/com/goldencode/testcases/embedded/CustomP2JClientApp.java@. This is the embedded mode cl... Greg Shah

03:53 PM Feature #3236: implement port range support for the web client's embedded web server

Thank you, I missed this entry point and didn't implement the port range for clients created by @WebClientLauncher@. ... Sergey Ivanovskiy

02:57 PM Feature #3236: implement port range support for the web client's embedded web server

The embedded mode comes through the @WebClientLauncher@ remote object which has the @spawn()@ entry point. It does n... Greg Shah

02:18 PM Feature #3236: implement port range support for the web client's embedded web server

Greg Shah wrote:
> Then in this mode can you just refuse non-embedded mode sessions in @WebHandler@?
It seems that ... Sergey Ivanovskiy

01:56 PM Feature #3236: implement port range support for the web client's embedded web server

Then in this mode can you just refuse non-embedded mode sessions in @WebHandler@? Greg Shah

01:00 PM Feature #3236: implement port range support for the web client's embedded web server

It seems that if the server refuses GET and POST requests for @/gui@, then the web client session can be established ... Sergey Ivanovskiy

12:54 PM Feature #3236: implement port range support for the web client's embedded web server

If virtual desktop mode is disabled, can't we just refuse to respond to all requests for path @/gui@? Greg Shah

12:53 PM Feature #3236: implement port range support for the web client's embedded web server

I don't understand how to detect if it is a POST request for the virtual desktop mode or the embedded client mode. We... Sergey Ivanovskiy

09:54 AM Feature #3236: implement port range support for the web client's embedded web server

> The system creates a one new OS process per an external request. Does it need to implement CAPTCHA for the login sc... Greg Shah

06:22 AM Feature #3236: implement port range support for the web client's embedded web server

I added new methods to allocate and to release system resources to the @Spawn@ interface. It fixed only a part of tha... Sergey Ivanovskiy

01:43 PM Bug #3304 (New): Eliminate denial of service in virtual desktop mode

Sergey Ivanovskiy

06/23/2017

03:49 PM Feature #2676: implement the equivalent to configurable support for a windows theme

I have adjusted the Window management so it duplicate the behaviour I noticed in testcases executed on ABL.
Rebased ... Ovidiu Maxiniuc

10:32 AM Feature #2676: implement the equivalent to configurable support for a windows theme

Hynek Cihlar wrote:
> Ovidiu, is there any estimate when this issue will be merged to trunk?
>
> I am asking bec... Ovidiu Maxiniuc

05:20 AM Feature #2676: implement the equivalent to configurable support for a windows theme

Ovidiu, is there any estimate when this issue will be merged to trunk?
I am asking because I am implementing some... Hynek Cihlar

02:16 PM Feature #3236: implement port range support for the web client's embedded web server

Sergey Ivanovskiy wrote:
> It seems that it is required to check the provided user/password pair and only then try t... Greg Shah

01:58 PM Feature #3236: implement port range support for the web client's embedded web server

It seems that @Spawner@ interface should be changed to be able to allocate clients resources if it is required. Plann... Sergey Ivanovskiy

11:46 AM Feature #3236: implement port range support for the web client's embedded web server

This denial of service for non restricted ports is not possible, since the ports is not allocated before the user's O... Sergey Ivanovskiy

11:26 AM Feature #3236: implement port range support for the web client's embedded web server

It seems that it is required to check the provided user/password pair and only then try to allocate the web client. G... Sergey Ivanovskiy

11:10 AM Feature #3236: implement port range support for the web client's embedded web server

I encountered the following major security risk as Denial of Service attacks at the application level, not at the tcp... Sergey Ivanovskiy

09:47 AM Feature #3236: implement port range support for the web client's embedded web server

You've got it. It is always nice when someone answers their own questions. :) Greg Shah

09:41 AM Feature #3236: implement port range support for the web client's embedded web server

Greg, don't matter my questions. It seems that one user must be able to create several web clients sessions with the ... Sergey Ivanovskiy

09:38 AM Feature #3236: implement port range support for the web client's embedded web server

>Why the system don't authenticate the user before the spawn process is started?
I understand, because the system is... Sergey Ivanovskiy

09:36 AM Feature #3236: implement port range support for the web client's embedded web server

Greg, does it make sense to create a configuration that provides a mapping of a user id to its web client port number... Sergey Ivanovskiy

11:19 AM Feature #3282: create a 4GL language extension to control screen refresh

Hynek Cihlar wrote:
> According to #3257 note 59 the customer currently uses @WM_SETREDRAW@ Win32 window message t... Hynek Cihlar

06:21 AM Feature #3282: create a 4GL language extension to control screen refresh

> would it be alright to introduce new attribute that would disable/enable window refresh
Yes, the proposed approa... Greg Shah

05:39 AM Feature #3282: create a 4GL language extension to control screen refresh

For the language extension, would it be alright to introduce new attribute that would disable/enable window refresh?
... Hynek Cihlar

06/22/2017

03:54 PM Feature #3236: implement port range support for the web client's embedded web server

Committed revision 11159 added @portsRange@ node under @webClient@ parent node and new business logic to release allo... Sergey Ivanovskiy

02:42 PM Feature #3236: implement port range support for the web client's embedded web server

> if we have the case when the ports are given and all of them are used by the current clients, then new local users... Greg Shah

01:22 PM Feature #3236: implement port range support for the web client's embedded web server

Greg, if we have the case when the ports are given and all of them are used by the current clients, then new local us... Sergey Ivanovskiy

11:31 AM Feature #3236: implement port range support for the web client's embedded web server

> If a user's session is terminated, then this port can be given to new client that is about to be logged, but this p... Greg Shah

10:55 AM Feature #3236: implement port range support for the web client's embedded web server

Greg Shah wrote:
> Code Review Task Branch 2683a Revision 11156
>
> Overall the approach is OK. Is it working in... Sergey Ivanovskiy

10:25 AM Feature #3236: implement port range support for the web client's embedded web server

Does it mean that we should check if the session is terminated, but the web client is still running? Sergey Ivanovskiy

10:20 AM Feature #3236: implement port range support for the web client's embedded web server

>4. What happens if the ChUI user executes CTRL-C or the GUI user executes ESC? Does the client properly reopen the s... Sergey Ivanovskiy

06/21/2017

04:02 PM Feature #3236: implement port range support for the web client's embedded web server

Code Review Task Branch 2683a Revision 11156
Overall the approach is OK. Is it working in your testing?
1. The... Greg Shah

02:54 PM Feature #2683: reverse proxy implementation

It is important that the web client is not started with the remote debug mode, because in this case it is not possibl... Sergey Ivanovskiy

02:52 PM Feature #2683: reverse proxy implementation

Greg, please look at the current 2683a, I tried to explore the idea from https://proj.goldencode.com/issues/3236#note... Sergey Ivanovskiy

02:02 PM Feature #1818: implement a timer service to replace the PSTimer OCX

Greg Shah wrote:
> Code Review Task Branch 1818a Revision 11160
Thank you for the review. I adjusted the code in 11... Ovidiu Maxiniuc

09:24 AM Feature #3275: improve browse support

It is interesting that there is no "iterative" ROW-DISPLAY triggering in ChUI. Except UP/DOWN keys which scroll by on... Stanislav Lomany

11:04 PM Feature #1834: implement direct manipulation (drag and drop)

The task branch @1834a@ has been updated for review to revision @11160@. Rebased with current trunk @11153@, new revi... Eugenie Lyzenko

06/20/2017

05:36 PM Feature #2683: reverse proxy implementation

That is great! Greg Shah

05:23 PM Feature #2683: reverse proxy implementation

It seems that Apache can be configured using map files that simplifies its configuration file to this one... Sergey Ivanovskiy

08:52 AM Feature #2683: reverse proxy implementation

Please note that it is NOT a requirement to implement an Nginx configuration. If the Apache approach works well, tha... Greg Shah

04:32 PM Feature #3284: implement more window widget support

Created task branch 3284a and committed runtime support for WINDOW-STATE:WINDOW-DELAYED-MINIMIZE to it.
Hynek Cihlar

08:48 AM Feature #3284: implement more window widget support

> but the actual behavior is a lot more fun!
:)
Good work isolating the behavior. Greg Shah

07:57 AM Feature #3284: implement more window widget support

The WINDOW-DELAYED-MINIMIZE window state runtime behavior is *really* bizarre. The documentation says "The window is ... Hynek Cihlar

09:11 PM Feature #1834: implement direct manipulation (drag and drop)

After doing some investigation for native 4GL behavior for direct manipulation I've made conclusion the key actor her... Eugenie Lyzenko

06/19/2017

08:58 AM Feature #2683: reverse proxy implementation

Understand this requirement, I think it can be implemented easily using that the reverse proxy can be recognized by a... Sergey Ivanovskiy

08:04 AM Feature #2683: reverse proxy implementation

Please make sure that we can run in reverse proxy mode AND/OR in direct access mode (our current approach). Many ins... Greg Shah

08:45 AM Feature #2676: implement the equivalent to configurable support for a windows theme

Constantin Asofiei wrote:
> > > > Your example revealed a flaw in tooltip management. I need to review the hiding ... Ovidiu Maxiniuc

08:01 AM Feature #3236: implement port range support for the web client's embedded web server

The highest priority is getting the local spawning working with port mapping. Please work on that first and we will ... Greg Shah

06/18/2017

01:26 PM Feature #3236: implement port range support for the web client's embedded web server

Actually, 2683 and 3236 can be developed as a one task due to interdependency of these tasks on the reverse proxy con... Sergey Ivanovskiy

01:13 PM Feature #3236: implement port range support for the web client's embedded web server

Greg, please help to understand the remote case. There are two cases: 1) the web client is spawned locally and 2) the... Sergey Ivanovskiy

06/17/2017

09:37 AM Bug #2765 (Closed): find proper freely licensed replacements for the MS Windows OS fonts

Greg Shah

09:46 PM Bug #2765: find proper freely licensed replacements for the MS Windows OS fonts

Greg Shah wrote:
> Please merge to trunk
Branch @2765b@ was merged to trunk as revno @11153@ then it was archived. Eugenie Lyzenko

09:24 PM Bug #2765: find proper freely licensed replacements for the MS Windows OS fonts

Please merge to trunk
Greg Shah

06/16/2017

05:46 PM Bug #2765: find proper freely licensed replacements for the MS Windows OS fonts

Eugenie Lyzenko wrote:
> The testing completed. Failed test was run in standalone mode. The results can be seen in @... Constantin Asofiei

05:45 PM Bug #2765: find proper freely licensed replacements for the MS Windows OS fonts

Constantin Asofiei wrote:
> Eugenie Lyzenko wrote:
> Do we have to do any other custom configuration for the large ... Eugenie Lyzenko

04:49 PM Bug #2765: find proper freely licensed replacements for the MS Windows OS fonts

Constantin Asofiei wrote:
>
> > So starting @ChUI@ regression testing.
> How is this going?
All tests are OK e... Eugenie Lyzenko

03:52 PM Bug #2765: find proper freely licensed replacements for the MS Windows OS fonts

Eugenie Lyzenko wrote:
> Small adjustment for font name and size for @Windows10@ theme. Now the large scale GUI appl... Constantin Asofiei

03:46 PM Feature #2676: implement the equivalent to configurable support for a windows theme

Ovidiu Maxiniuc wrote:
> Constantin Asofiei wrote:
> > What does it display? Empty text?
> The 1st window is label... Constantin Asofiei

06/15/2017

07:29 PM Bug #2765: find proper freely licensed replacements for the MS Windows OS fonts

Constantin Asofiei wrote:
> Next step is: please do some testing in some complex screens of the large GUI applicatio... Eugenie Lyzenko

03:08 PM Feature #2683: reverse proxy implementation

The plan is to add @X-Forwarded-Host@ support by web server to span web client correctly in the presence of the rever... Sergey Ivanovskiy

03:00 PM Feature #2683: reverse proxy implementation

Created new branch 2683a for this task. Sergey Ivanovskiy

09:10 AM Feature #3275: improve browse support

> Should I skip this differences and add to to the "thumb redrawing" redmine issue?
Yes, so long as the difference... Greg Shah

09:08 AM Feature #3275: improve browse support

OK, I'll figure out which part is necessary. Overall I'm going to stick to the plan
@ThinClient.trigger@ initial ... Stanislav Lomany

08:53 AM Feature #3275: improve browse support

I'm not sure. Some of the processing in @ThinClient.trigger()@ is to properly enable recursion, which you said canno... Greg Shah

08:33 AM Feature #3275: improve browse support

Basically my question is if the client-side trigger processing in @ThinClient.trigger@ necessary for its counterpart ... Stanislav Lomany

08:26 AM Feature #3275: improve browse support

> Wrap BrowseWidget.getRows with the code from ThinClient.trigger.
What do you mean by "wrap"? I prefer not to du... Greg Shah

05:54 AM Feature #3275: improve browse support

Greg, am I right that server-side ROW-DISPLAY trigger should be called in that way?
# Wrap @BrowseWidget.getRows@ wi... Stanislav Lomany

08:44 AM Feature #2676: implement the equivalent to configurable support for a windows theme

Constantin Asofiei wrote:
> What does it display? Empty text?
The 1st window is labeled as "Window 1 has parent". L... Ovidiu Maxiniuc

06/14/2017

05:22 PM Feature #3275: improve browse support

> Note that if we strive for 100% authenticity server-side ROW-DISPLAY doesn't make sense because we need to redraw t... Greg Shah

05:17 PM Feature #3275: improve browse support

Some notes on what can be done during ROW-DISPLAY processing for multiple rows:
# Browse itself and other widgets ar... Stanislav Lomany

04:21 PM Feature #2676: implement the equivalent to configurable support for a windows theme

Ovidiu Maxiniuc wrote:
> ... the title of the parent-less window from your testcase should be @unknown@ since their ... Constantin Asofiei

04:16 PM Feature #2676: implement the equivalent to configurable support for a windows theme

Ovidiu Maxiniuc wrote:
> > * @WindowTitleBar@ - missing history entry
> I was about to revert this one too, but I s... Ovidiu Maxiniuc

12:41 PM Feature #1818: implement a timer service to replace the PSTimer OCX

Code Review Task Branch 1818a Revision 11160
As mentioned before, this is really good work. Some feedback:
1. ... Greg Shah

10:34 AM Feature #3280: implement editor methods

Code Review Task Branch 3279a Revision 11160
1. The SUB-TYPE members added to @ComboBoxWidget@ need javadoc.
2.... Greg Shah

06/13/2017

04:04 PM Feature #2676: implement the equivalent to configurable support for a windows theme

Constantin Asofiei wrote:
> Ovidiu, please let me know what is left with this task.
I am not aware of anything el... Ovidiu Maxiniuc

12:31 PM Feature #2676: implement the equivalent to configurable support for a windows theme

Ovidiu, please let me know what is left with this task.
What I'm aware of in 2676a rev 11170:
* @WindowLayout@,... Constantin Asofiei

03:16 PM Bug #2765: find proper freely licensed replacements for the MS Windows OS fonts

Constantin Asofiei wrote:
> > We just do not need to provide separate font files within GUI package.
> OK, so your ... Eugenie Lyzenko

12:48 PM Bug #2765: find proper freely licensed replacements for the MS Windows OS fonts

Eugenie Lyzenko wrote:
> The @Hotel GUI project@ will use the aliases even they are not directly included into @dire... Constantin Asofiei

11:27 AM Bug #2765: find proper freely licensed replacements for the MS Windows OS fonts

Constantin Asofiei wrote:
> Eugenie, the changes in 2765b rev 11163 are OK; please add a history entry to @FontDetai... Eugenie Lyzenko

05:58 AM Bug #2765: find proper freely licensed replacements for the MS Windows OS fonts

Eugenie, the changes in 2765b rev 11163 are OK; please add a history entry to @FontDetails@ and also a question about... Constantin Asofiei

11:08 AM Feature #3275: improve browse support

> If browse-specific state in the screen buffer can be changed then we need to make sure that the screen buffer is se... Stanislav Lomany

10:40 AM Feature #3275: improve browse support

> But in the case trigger contains user interactions or alert boxes, we have to somehow detect that we have an intera... Greg Shah

10:08 AM Feature #3275: improve browse support

> Can we iteratively execute the trigger on the server side, without down-calls to the client?
At first look I thin... Stanislav Lomany

09:33 AM Feature #3275: improve browse support

> iterative ROW-DISPLAY triggering (note that most of browse attributes, like DOWN or SCREEN-VALUE (not readable), a... Greg Shah

06/09/2017

01:42 PM Feature #1834: implement direct manipulation (drag and drop)

The task branch @1834a@ has been updated for review to revision @11159@.
Added new class to @../ui/client/gui@ pac... Eugenie Lyzenko

07:32 AM Feature #1834: implement direct manipulation (drag and drop)

I like your plan. Greg Shah

08:47 PM Feature #1834: implement direct manipulation (drag and drop)

This is the rest of file list dropping implementation plan. Because all real event are happening on the client side(g... Eugenie Lyzenko

10:14 AM Feature #1818: implement a timer service to replace the PSTimer OCX

Technical details for the summary from note 20.
The @.ext-hints@ looks like this... Ovidiu Maxiniuc

09:37 AM Feature #1818: implement a timer service to replace the PSTimer OCX

As with revision 11159 of branch 1818a, FWD looks for a special @.ext-hints@ file (I can optionally move the content ... Ovidiu Maxiniuc

09:12 AM Feature #3275: improve browse support

My bad, REFRESH doesn't trigger ROW-DISPLAY, only search by key. I'll clean up records. Stanislav Lomany

08:34 AM Feature #3275: improve browse support

All ROW-DISPLAY rules will be stored in updatable item 30.
We should decide if we want to support 1. iterative ROW... Stanislav Lomany

06/08/2017

06:09 PM Feature #1834: implement direct manipulation (drag and drop)

The task branch @1834a@ has been updated for review to revision @11158@.
Reworked to resolve the notes for @Droppa... Eugenie Lyzenko

04:26 PM Feature #3275: improve browse support

> What is the effort to get this to match the weird Progress behavior?
For a start:
# PageDown for some cases shoul... Stanislav Lomany

04:13 AM Feature #3275: improve browse support

> I think it's not worth to exactly duplicate this behavior until (if) we come to the point when it will be necessary... Greg Shah

06/06/2017

10:42 AM Feature #3275: improve browse support

Greg, I took a look how ROW-DISPLAY behaves when multiple new rows are displayed at once:
# Mouse wheel scrolling: i... Stanislav Lomany

06/02/2017

04:09 PM Feature #1818: implement a timer service to replace the PSTimer OCX

> I don't think I can load the provided .wrx in P4GL test box.
You probably can. They were originally created in ... Greg Shah

03:39 PM Feature #1818: implement a timer service to replace the PSTimer OCX

Greg,
Apparently the .wrx files hold some information that is not available in the source code (.p or .w files). ... Ovidiu Maxiniuc

05/31/2017

06:30 AM Feature #1834: implement direct manipulation (drag and drop)

> The attribute DROP-TARGET is implemented as part of the BaseConfig. The default value is false. Only widgets that s... Greg Shah

08:56 PM Feature #1834: implement direct manipulation (drag and drop)

The task branch @1834a@ has been updated for review to revision @11157@.
This change introduced the suggested appr... Eugenie Lyzenko

05/30/2017

04:10 PM Feature #1834: implement direct manipulation (drag and drop)

The testcases repo has been updated to revision @1613@.
The task branch @1834a@ has been updated for review to rev... Eugenie Lyzenko

09:32 PM Feature #1834: implement direct manipulation (drag and drop)

The task branch @1834a@ has been updated for review to revision @11155@.
The server side implementation for direct... Eugenie Lyzenko

05/29/2017

03:43 PM Feature #1818: implement a timer service to replace the PSTimer OCX

Constantin,
The events are fired from server-side, from an @AssociatedThread@. It was not @registerAsyncThread()@... Ovidiu Maxiniuc

03:30 PM Feature #1818: implement a timer service to replace the PSTimer OCX

Ovidiu Maxiniuc wrote:
> Constantin,
>
> I am working on the runtime of this issue: the asynchronous callback to ... Constantin Asofiei

03:17 PM Feature #1818: implement a timer service to replace the PSTimer OCX

Constantin,
I am working on the runtime of this issue: the asynchronous callback to event procedure.
I tried to... Ovidiu Maxiniuc

01:04 PM Feature #1834: implement direct manipulation (drag and drop)

Greg Shah wrote:
> I prefer a different approach. We find many different cases where there is some arbitrary subset... Eugenie Lyzenko

09:43 AM Feature #1834: implement direct manipulation (drag and drop)

> So my plan is to introduce new class say DroppableWidget extending GenericWidget and change inheritance for BrowseW... Greg Shah

09:31 AM Feature #1834: implement direct manipulation (drag and drop)

Point to discuss with @DnD@ inheritance to be implemented.
The widgets that must support file list dropping:
@Bro... Eugenie Lyzenko