Hexchat: Clicking a link very frequently fails

https://github.com/hexchat/hexchat/issues/363#issuecomment-15821989

While clicking link mouse down and mouse up events must trigger in same cursor position otherwise link not opens. So while clicking if you move cursor one pixel before releasing it then link not opens. And this is very annoying. I have no idea why HexChat handling click event like this.

Fixed by https://github.com/hexchat/hexchat/commit/971e5cf4fe528f145a38dadcf75310b1ea5ae46c

still fails a lot in 2.12.1
i'm on Windows 8

I also experience this occasionally on 2.12.1. It usually happens consecutively, when it happens, and I suspect a program restart to fix it, but I haven't specifically investigated further. Windows 7.

I imagine this issue is no longer being monitored, but experiencing similar behavior on 2.12.4.

This issue is NOT the "pixel perfect click" issue. Something in the program causes all clicks for all links to fail, no matter how carefully they are clicked. For me, highlighting some text (doesn't matter where) and then clicking off the highlighted text (to deselect it) fixes the issue and links work properly again. I have been unable to replicate this reliably, so no clue as to the actual cause (might be related to some period of inactivity?), but as I use IRC pretty much all day every day, it comes up 4-5 times a day.

Happens on all versions of Windows I use (Win7/8/10), so I don't think this is an OS problem.

I mentioned this on IRC a few months ago, but I'm also experiencing this exact same issue under Arch Linux.

I use 2.12.4 on Windows 10. Up until the past week or so I have been able to click a URL and have it open with no issues. Yes, gui_url_mod is set to 0. I am back to having to right click and open URLs.

I have to agree with Fenrirtheviti that this is NOT a "pixel perfect click" issue. I've tried restarting the program only to have the issue persist.

Definitely still present for me as well. I'm guessing this issue is not monitored due to being closed. I'll look into providing a detailed report with more info the next time it occurs for me.

Considering the rarity of the issue, it's could be a race condition. It's also interesting that this happens on Windows and Linux, though it's rarer on Linux (at least for me).

@TingPing, would you consider reopening the issue?

I restarted Hexchat after rebooting my computer and was able to open 3 links without having to right click. Just went to click a URL and once again it is back to right clicking to open. I have tried in multiple places of the URL and still nothing.

Is there any further information I can provide to help track this down? I spent a bit of time trying to debug, and couldn't sort out on my own, but I'm happy to provide any debug logs/info possible.

Also affected latest hexchat on windows 10. Thank you.