Cursor goes missing in notify* forms

[Etzeitet]

The forms provided by the notify, notify_yes_no, etc functions in utilNotify.py have an issue where the cursor disappears if you move away from the OK button.

It usually requires pressing Tab in order to get the focus back on to OK/Cancel.

This looks like a bug in the functions where the message is added to the Form object. To fix this, I had to override the function and change the F.add line to add editable=False:

def notify_yes_no(message, title="Message", form_color='STANDOUT', wrap=True, editw = 0,):
    message = _prepare_message(message)
    F   = YesNoPopup(name=title, color=form_color)
    F.preserve_selected_widget = True
    mlw = F.add(wgmultiline.Pager, editable=False)  # fix
    mlw_width = mlw.width-1
    if wrap:
        message = _wrap_message_lines(message, mlw_width)
    mlw.values = message
    F.editw = editw
    F.edit()
    return F.value

This would need fixing on each of the notify functions.

This project doesn't appear to be maintained much anymore, which is a shame, but hopefully this might help someone down the line.

[Etzeitet]

I revisited this today due to some changes in an application, and turns out this isn't a bug... well not entirely.

The popups use the Pager widget (obvious when you look at the code snippet above). Most of the popups the application generates are only a few lines, so it is not at all obvious that a pager is being used, but it still consumes the cursor by default.

So, the "fix" might be to not use a Pager at all (or set editable=False on Pager as per my original solution) if the number of lines in the message is less than a particular threshold.