start moving to protobuf. fix mouse clicks (kinda)

.gitignore

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 *.swp
 *.so
+*.pb.go
 go.mod
 go.sum
 gocui

Makefile

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ BUILDTIME = $(shell date +%Y.%m.%d)
 all: clean gocui.so
 	@#ldd gocui.so
 
-gocui.so:
+gocui.so: view.pb.go goimports
 	GO111MODULE=off go build -v -work -buildmode=plugin -o gocui.so \
 		-ldflags "-X main.VERSION=${VERSION} -X main.BUILDTIME=${BUILDTIME} -X gui.GUIVERSION=${VERSION}"
 
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ custom:
 
 clean:
 	rm -f gocui gocui.so
+	rm -f *.pb.go
+	go-mod-clean --purge
 
 # Test the README.md & doc.go file
 # this runs pkgsite, the binary that does dev.go.dev
@@ -41,3 +43,6 @@ redomod:
 	rm -f go.*
 	GO111MODULE= go mod init
 	GO111MODULE= go mod tidy
+
+view.pb.go: view.proto
+	autogenpb --proto view.proto

click.go

@@ -112,10 +112,10 @@ func (w *guiWidget) doWidgetClick() {
 func click(g *gocui.Gui, v *gocui.View) error {
 	mouseW, mouseH := me.baseGui.MousePosition()
 
-	log.Log(GOCUI, "click() START gocui name:", v.Name())
+	log.Log(GOCUI, "click() START gocui name:", v.Name(), mouseW, mouseH)
 	w := findUnderMouse()
 
-	// if the dropdown view is visable, process it no matter what
+	// if the dropdown view is visible, process it no matter what
 	if me.dropdownV.Visible() {
 		me.dropdownV.dropdownClicked(mouseW, mouseH)
 	}
@@ -183,8 +183,8 @@ func findUnderMouse() *guiWidget {
 	rootW := me.treeRoot.TK.(*guiWidget)
 	f(rootW)
 
+	// search through all the widgets that were below the mouse click
 	var found *guiWidget
-	// widgets has everything that matches
 	for _, w := range widgets {
 		// prioritize window buttons. This means if some code covers
 		// up the window widgets, then it will ignore everything else
@@ -193,9 +193,23 @@ func findUnderMouse() *guiWidget {
 		if w.WidgetType == widget.Window {
 			return w
 		}
-		// w.showWidgetPlacement("findUnderMouse() FOUND")
+	}
+
+	// return anything else that is interactive
+	for _, w := range widgets {
+		if w.WidgetType == widget.Button {
+			return w
+		}
+		if w.WidgetType == widget.Combobox {
+			return w
+		}
+		if w.WidgetType == widget.Checkbox {
+			return w
+		}
+		w.showWidgetPlacement("findUnderMouse() found something unknown")
 		found = w
 	}
+	// maybe something else was found
 	return found
 }
 

main.go

@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
 // license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
 
-
 package main
 
 import (

view.proto

@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+syntax = "proto3";
+
+package main;
+
+import "google/protobuf/timestamp.proto"; // Import the well-known type for Timestamp
+
+// maybe put all the gocui specific stuff here.
+message GocuiState  {		// `autogenpb:nomutex`
+        bool   visible         = 1;
+        bool   internal        = 2;
+        int64  w0               = 3;
+        int64  h0               = 4;
+        int64  w1               = 5;
+        int64  h1               = 6;
+}
+
+message ViewSettings  {		// `autogenpb:nomutex`
+        bool   pack            = 1;
+        int64  framesize        = 5;
+}
+
+message Tree {
+        View   parent  		= 1;
+	repeated View  children = 2;
+}
+
+// this is the gocui 'view' in binary tree form
+message View {
+        int64  widgetId         = 3;    // `autogenpb:unique` `autogenpb:sort`
+        string name             = 4;    // `autogenpb:unique` `autogenpb:sort`
+        GocuiState  state	= 7;
+}
+
+message Views {	        	// `autogenpb:marshal` `autogenpb:mutex`
+	string   uuid	        = 1;    // `autogenpb:uuid:d19c1fbb-32c2-4957-aee6-f8128a511dca`
+	string   version        = 2;    // `autogenpb:version:v0.0.1`
+	repeated View  Views    = 3;
+        Tree    tree            = 4;
+        map<string, string> junk = 5;
+        ViewSettings settings   = 6;
+}