<AWT Dev> [12] RFR : JDK-8198000 : java/awt/List/EmptyListEventTest/EmptyListEventTest.java debug assert on Windows

Philip Race philip.race at oracle.com
Tue Nov 6 16:50:38 UTC 2018



On 11/5/18 8:51 AM, Ambarish Rapte wrote:
>
> Hi Phil,
>
> The little abstraction or lack of clarity in documentation is leading 
> us to make some assumptions.
>
> Just trying to connect the pieces,
>
> I referred these two doc pages to learn LOWORD behavior:
>
>  1. LOWORD :
>     https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms632659(v=vs.85).aspx
>     <https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms632659%28v=vs.85%29.aspx>
>  2. WORD :
>     https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/winprog/windows-data-types
>
> And the documentation of LB_ITEMFROMPOINT does not mention LB_ERR(-1)
>
> Based on these documentation, it looks safe to conclude that LOWORD 
> would be positive.
>

I don't think so. I already pointed out that it is apparently returning 
-1 in your test
when HIWORD is 1. I am pretty sure it isn't expecting you to interpret 
0xFFFF stored
in 16 bits as positive.

> Issue #1 :
>
> Yes, the HIWORD is 1, when the mouse is clicked inside the list’s 
> client area but not on the item.
>
> Once we separate the HIWORD and LOWORD, LOWORD gives correct index of 
> the last item, and this issue gets solved.
>
> Checking if HIWORD is 1 can be additional check. But as we extract 
> correct index, this check can be ignored for allowing selection.
>
> Or the other way, we can use HIWORD to avoid selection/deselection 
> when it is 1.
>
> Additionally, The behavior on Ubuntu and mac is different,
>
> Ubuntu: Last item does not get selected & it also does not select any 
> other item. User must click on the item to select or deselect.
>
> Mac: Selects the last item
>
> Windows: Focused item gets selected / deselected on multiple clicks, 3-4
>
>   * After this fix[Allowing selection], Mac and Windows will have same
>     behavior.
>

These are platform UI components. They can behave differently w.r.t 
things like
how they respond to mouse clicks, all dependent on what the platform 
norms are.
I see no reason to go out of our way to "make windows mouse clicks 
behave like mac".


>  *
>
>
>
> Issue #2 :
>
> This looks a very corner case of list of size more than 65535 size, 
> but the item selection and deselection works fine with keyboard.
>
> Also List behaves correctly on Ubuntu and Mac.
>
> Just for a look, I am including a fix for this issue in webrev.03: 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~arapte/8198000/webrev.03/ 
> <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Earapte/8198000/webrev.03/>
>
> As you have already mentioned we should not really change a long 
> running behavior, but I could not hold on from suggestion.
>
> If you think this fix is not needed, I shall just change/remove it.
>

Not understanding you. How can you tell if 0x0001 is supposed to be "1" 
or "65536" ?

I also don't like std::pow .. it is unnecessary here.

Not withstanding the lack of clarity on how you are claiming to know that,
I was expecting a fix to look more like

         LONG count = GetCount();
         if (count>  0) {
          LONG item = static_cast<LONG>(SendListMessage(LB_ITEMFROMPOINT, 0, msg->lParam));
          if (HIWORD(item) == 0) {
             item = LOWORD(item);
             if (item>  0&&  item<  GetCount()) {
               ...

So if the user clicks outside we do nothing. What is wrong with that ?

-phil.



> Regards,
>
> Ambarish
>
> *From:*Philip Race
> *Sent:* Saturday, November 03, 2018 10:59 PM
> *To:* Ambarish Rapte <ambarish.rapte at oracle.com>
> *Cc:* awt-dev at openjdk.java.net
> *Subject:* Re: <AWT Dev> [12] RFR : JDK-8198000 : 
> java/awt/List/EmptyListEventTest/EmptyListEventTest.java debug assert 
> on Windows
>
> - I am not sure you can assume the LOWORD value is non-negative.
>    It seems to me that the 0XFFFF we got back is meant to be 
> interpreted as "-1"
>    which is what I wrote below.
>    I do note that it appears that in issue #2 you are seeing that up 
> to 65534 items
>    may be allowed and it wraps if you add more than 65535 ..
>    So *perhaps* we can interpret 0xFFFF as meaning positive 65535 but 
> I think
>    *only* if HIWORD is "0".
>
> - Issue #1 : I am not sure that a "1" in HIWORD automatically means it 
> is off the
> end of the list ... just "outside the client area". I think if HIWORD 
> is 1 we just
> bail don't we ?
>   Then you don't have to worry about whether 0xFFFF meant -1 or 65536
>
> - Issue #2 : There is always *some* limit in cases like this. 32767 
> (2^15-1) or 65535 (2^16-1)
> are very typical in these platform APIs. Often the platform doesn't 
> explicitly document it
> and you have to infer it from the data type. I think it was all very 
> moot when these APIs
> were designed because you'd run out of memory before you could get 
> that many items :-)
> I'd be surprised if there were not already some open bug pointing out 
> that we accept "int"
> for index and don't have any feedback when exceeding platform limits.
> From a compatibility point of view, I don't think it is worth doing 
> anything that would
> break ancient applications to provide that feedback.
>
> -phil.
>
>
>
> On 11/2/18, 10:23 AM, Ambarish Rapte wrote:
>
>     Hi Phil,
>
>       Thanks for guiding with the documentation.
>
>       The fix is modified after a relook at the documentation, and
>     observed two issues [mentioned below].
>
>       webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~arapte/8198000/webrev.02
>     <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Earapte/8198000/webrev.02>
>
>     Fix Justification:
>
>       LB_ITEMFROMPOINT
>     documentation(https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/controls/lb-itemfrompoint):
>
>      1. Message LB_ITEMFROMPOINT returns a LONG value.
>      2. There is no mention of LB_ERR as return value, like it is
>         mentioned clearly for some of the other messages as
>         LB_GETCOUNT, LB_SETITEMHEIGHT, LB_GETTEXT, LB_GETCURSEL.
>
>           * So the existing comparison against LB_ERR is incorrect.
>
>      3. The two parts LOWORD and HIWORD of return value are of type
>         WORD(unsigned short), so the return value can never be negative.
>
>           * It is another reason to not to compare the returned index
>             value with LB_ERR which is defined as (-1).
>
>     Fix:
>
>       Extract the index from LOWORD into a WORD variable and verify
>     only if the index is smaller than the list size. (webrev.02)
>
>       This fixes both JDK-8198000 & below mentioned Issue 1.
>
>     2 other Issues:
>
>       Issue 1: NON selection of an item.
>
>      1. Currently the returned LONG value is used without extracting
>         the LOWORD.
>      2. As far as the HIWORD is 0, the LONG return value would be same
>         as index of item(LOWORD).
>      3. But when HIWORD is 1, the LONG return value would be a large
>         unexpected value. If it is used as an index, then it would
>         result in NON selection of the item.
>      4. Test program:
>         http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~arapte/8198000/ListSize3.java
>         <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Earapte/8198000/ListSize3.java>
>      5. Steps:
>
>          1. Compile and execute the test program with release build JDK.
>          2. Click in the list's client area below the last item, i.e.
>             do not click on any item.
>
>      6. Expected behavior:  Last item should get selected.
>      7. Actual behavior:  Last item does not get selected on first
>         click. But the focused item gets selected after few clicks.
>
>       Issue 2: Incorrect selection when list size exceeds sizeof(WORD)
>     [0xFFFF].
>
>     Steps:
>
>      1. Compile and execute the program with release build JDK (with
>         or without the fix) :
>         http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~arapte/8198000/List65544.java
>         <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Earapte/8198000/List65544.java>
>      2. Click the first item in list, press End key.
>      3. Click the last item 65544.
>      4. Expected behavior:  The item 65544 should get selected.
>      5. Actual behavior: The item 65544 does not get selected and
>         instead item 8 gets selected.
>      6. Verified only windows behavior.
>      7. I suggest to file a new JBS for this issue.
>
>     Regards,
>
>     Ambarish
>
>     *From:*Phil Race
>     *Sent:* Thursday, November 01, 2018 1:51 AM
>     *To:* Ambarish Rapte <ambarish.rapte at oracle.com>
>     <mailto:ambarish.rapte at oracle.com>; awt-dev at openjdk.java.net
>     <mailto:awt-dev at openjdk.java.net>
>     *Subject:* Re: <AWT Dev> [12] RFR : JDK-8198000 :
>     java/awt/List/EmptyListEventTest/EmptyListEventTest.java debug
>     assert on Windows
>
>     That adds what I suggested, but I had also suggested you leave in
>     what you
>     had added as it also adds some protection.
>
>     Additionally I read the MS docs and they do explain the 131071
>     return value.
>     The message this code is sending is  LB_ITEMFROMPOINT and the docs
>     say here
>     https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/controls/lb-itemfrompoint
>     that
>
>     >The return value contains the index of the nearest item in the
>     *LOWORD*
>     <https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/windows/desktop/ms632659>. The
>     *HIWORD*
>     <https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/windows/desktop/ms632657> is
>     zero if the > specified point is in the client area of the list
>     box, or one if it is outside the client area"
>
>     You got 131071 which is, in hex 0X1FFFF.
>
>     So you got "1" for hi-word, meaning "outside client area" and "-1"
>     for loword,
>     meaning the index. And a return index of "-1" doubtless means an
>     error ..
>
>     -phil.
>
>
>     On 10/31/18 12:49 PM, Ambarish Rapte wrote:
>
>         Hi Phil & Sergey,
>
>         This issue was introduced with the fix for JDK-6806217
>         <https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-6806217>, in 7b55,
>         which modified AwtList::HandleEvent(), so It was not observed
>         with JDK6.
>
>                         Please review the updated change as discussed
>         offline: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~arapte/8198000/webrev.01/
>         <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Earapte/8198000/webrev.01/>
>
>         Regards,
>
>         Ambarish
>
>         *From:*Phil Race
>         *Sent:* Tuesday, October 30, 2018 2:09 AM
>         *To:* Ambarish Rapte <ambarish.rapte at oracle.com>
>         <mailto:ambarish.rapte at oracle.com>; awt-dev at openjdk.java.net
>         <mailto:awt-dev at openjdk.java.net>
>         *Subject:* Re: <AWT Dev> [12] RFR : JDK-8198000 :
>         java/awt/List/EmptyListEventTest/EmptyListEventTest.java debug
>         assert on Windows
>
>         On 10/29/18 7:31 AM, Ambarish Rapte wrote:
>
>             Hi,
>
>                             Please review this Windows only fix,
>
>                             JBS:
>             https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8198000
>
>                             Webrev:
>             http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~arapte/8198000/webrev.00/
>             <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Earapte/8198000/webrev.00/>
>
>             Issue:
>
>              1. Test asserts with debug build jdk, only on windows.
>
>
>         Only the debug build turns on asserts.
>         But I think JDK 6 always turned on asserts, and this test was
>         introduced in 6,
>         so something must have changed else we'd have seen this test
>         fail a long time ago.
>         Can you identify what it was ?
>
>         Also same comment as the other bug - you need to add the bug
>         id to the test.
>
>
>
>
>             2.
>              3. Assert at Line no 77, awt_List.h :: IsItemSelected()
>              4. awt_List.cpp  ::  AwtList::HandleEvent() calls
>                 IsItemSelected() with an incorrect index value.
>
>
>         Why ?
>
>
>
>
>             5.
>              6. In AwtList::HandleEvent() , the call
>                 SendListMessage(LB_ITEMFROMPOINT, 0, msg->lParam) 
>                 returns an arbitrary value 131071, which gets passed
>                 to IsItemSelected().
>              7. Could not find any relevance to the value 131071, from
>                 LB_ITEMFROMPOINT doc.
>
>
>         That is (128*1024)-1, so it is probably not "arbitrary".
>
>         Please add the eval above to the bug report .. once we have a
>         complete understanding.
>
>         -phil.
>
>
>
>
>             8.
>
>             Fix:  Index should be verified before making call to
>             IsItemSelected() :
>             http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~arapte/8198000/webrev.00/
>             <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Earapte/8198000/webrev.00/>
>
>             Verification:  All list tests pass.
>
>             Regards,
>
>             Ambarish
>


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