finds the item chosen from the dropdown list

Signed-off-by: Jeff Carr <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 23 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/click.go b/click.go
index 57a6179..59d33b3 100644
--- a/click.go
+++ b/click.go
@@ -231,16 +231,34 @@ func click(g *gocui.Gui, v *gocui.View) error {
 		log.Error(errors.New("click() could not find widget for view =" + v.Name()))
 	} else {
 		log.Log(NOW, "click() Found widget =", w.node.WidgetId, w.String(), ",", w.labelN)
-		if w.String() == "DropBox" {
-			log.Log(NOW, "click() this is the dropdown menu. set a flag here what did I click? where is the mouse?")
-			log.Log(NOW, "click() set a global dropdown clicked flag=true here")
-		}
 		w.doWidgetClick()
 	}
 
+	rootTK := me.treeRoot.TK.(*guiWidget)
+	realTK := rootTK.findWidgetByView(v)
+	if realTK == nil {
+		log.Error(errors.New("toolkit click() out of reality with gocui. v.Name() not in binary tree " + v.Name()))
+		log.Log(NOW, "click() END FAILURE ON gocui v.Name =", v.Name())
+		// return nil // otherwise gocui exits
+	}
+
+	// double check the widget view really still exists
+	nameTK := rootTK.findWidgetByName(v.Name())
+	if nameTK == nil {
+		log.Error(errors.New("toolkit click() out of reality with gocui. v.Name() not in binary tree " + v.Name()))
+		return nil
+	}
+	if nameTK.v == nil {
+		log.Log(NOW, "click() maybe this widget has had it's view distroyed?", nameTK.cuiName, nameTK.WidgetType)
+		log.Log(NOW, "yep. it's gone now")
+		return nil
+	}
+
+	// SetCurrentView dies if it's sent an non-existent view
 	if _, err := g.SetCurrentView(v.Name()); err != nil {
 		log.Log(NOW, "click() END v.Name =", v.Name(), "err =", err)
-		return err
+		// return err // return causes gocui.MainLoop() to exit. Do we ever want that to happen here?
+		return nil
 	}
 
 	log.Log(NOW, "click() END gocui name:", v.Name())