List Focus Box - MIA

[TheQwerty]

As discovered here: http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic.php?t=1771

The dotted focus box is not showing up for me in any of the list views.

Tested on the the last two betas and a fresh "install" (from the archive).
System is Windows XP SP2.

The focus box appears in standard controls and is visible in Firefox's custom controls (bookmark manager / history).

[admin]

Huh? How's that possible? Why only you?

Do you see a dotted line when you press a mouse button and drag?

[TheQwerty]

Huh? How's that possible? Why only you?

Do you see a dotted line when you press a mouse button and drag?

You got me. I see the mouse's selection rectangle as a dotted line, but there's no focus box.

[admin]

Huh? How's that possible? Why only you?

Do you see a dotted line when you press a mouse button and drag?

You got me. I see the mouse's selection rectangle as a dotted line, but there's no focus box.

Do you have exotic color settings (system wide)?

[TheQwerty]

Do you have exotic color settings (system wide)?

Nope. Using the default XP theme in their silver color scheme.

I'm not aware of anything that's hooking into the theming engine either.

[admin]

Do you have exotic color settings (system wide)?

Nope. Using the default XP theme in their silver color scheme.

I'm not aware of anything that's hooking into the theming engine either.

See a focus box in the tree?

[TheQwerty]

It's fixed.. (Edit: or so I thought)

I just reapplied the default Window themes and it came back. I've never changed them other than color so I'm not sure why that would make a difference unless something else affected the settings.

Odd that it only affected XYplorer too.


Edit: Nevermind, I just switched it back to the Silver theme because the blue was way too bright and it disappeared again. XYplorer just does not want to work with XP's silver color scheme.

Edit 2: Just realized I forgot to answer your question. No there's no dotted focus box in the tree.

Did find something else weird though.
If you focus an item that is selected (in either the tree or list) and then activate a different pane the selection highlight becomes lighter (to show it isn't active) and there is a dark gray border around the item that was focused. So there's still a box but when using the Silver color scheme you can only see it when the item is selected in an inactive control.

[admin]

Edit: Nevermind, I just switched it back to the Silver theme because the blue was way too bright and it disappeared again. XYplorer just does not want to work with XP's silver color scheme.

Of course XYplorer works with XP's silver color scheme. With perfect focus rect as expected.

There's something very strange going on at your system.

Did find something else weird though.
If you focus an item that is selected (in either the tree or list) and then activate a different pane the selection highlight becomes lighter (to show it isn't active) and there is a dark gray border around the item that was focused. So there's still a box but when using the Silver color scheme you can only see it when the item is selected in an inactive control.

This is a feature.

[TheQwerty]

Of course XYplorer works with XP's silver color scheme. With perfect focus rect as expected.

There's something very strange going on at your system.

I just tested a whole bunch of apps and XYplorer has been the only one to not show it when using XP's silver scheme.

There is nothing on my machine that should be affecting the theming engine.

The only thing I can think of is a conflict with XP and VB6 (I don't have any other VB apps to test with) or a problem with the custom controls.

[admin]

The only thing I can think of is a conflict with XP and VB6 (I don't have any other VB apps to test with) or a problem with the custom controls.

But you are not the only XP + XY + Silver user! By far not...

[TheQwerty]

The only thing I can think of is a conflict with XP and VB6 (I don't have any other VB apps to test with) or a problem with the custom controls.

But you are not the only XP + XY + Silver user! By far not...

And I never said I was.

But I'm completely out of thoughts on anything else that could be affecting this.

[admin]

The only thing I can think of is a conflict with XP and VB6 (I don't have any other VB apps to test with) or a problem with the custom controls.

But you are not the only XP + XY + Silver user! By far not...

And I never said I was.

But I'm completely out of thoughts on anything else that could be affecting this.

Let logic talk. Apparently to special things meet at your place:
(1) Something must be different from all other apps in XY's focus rect drawing.
(2) Something must be different from all other systems in your system's focus rect drawing.

It would suffice to find one of those somethings...

[serendipity]

But you are not the only XP + XY + Silver user! By far not...

To prove that, i changed my theme to silver and i still see the rectangle in XY. So according to me on TheQwerty's system something different from what we (atleast Don and me) have. hmmm strange situation though.

[admin]

But you are not the only XP + XY + Silver user! By far not...

To prove that, i changed my theme to silver and i still see the rectangle in XY. So according to me on TheQwerty's system something different from what we (atleast Don and me) have. hmmm strange situation though.

My current theory: TheQwerty has used a theme anytime back. Some themes are known to spoil certain color settings pemanently even after uninstall...

But this does not explain why XY is the only program with an issue here. So I'm working on something...

[serendipity]

@Don, maybe you can provide "focused row" color in other views too. I see that the rectangle is difficult to locate in list view if your background is greyish. I think everyone will benefit from this since colors are easier to locate than faint outline boxes. just wondering.