Highlight Selected Current Item
Highlight Selected Current Item
In order to see which item info is being displayed in Status Bar when it is among the other selected ones, it would make sense to highlight it as it is done in Windows Explorer.
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Hmm, it used to be like this (and still works in the unfocused list). I'll make it work again.
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v23.40.0011 - 2022-08-07 11:46
* List: Since v23.40.0002 - 2022-08-02 12:15 there is a tweak to control whether the
focused element within a multi-selection is drawn slightly lighter to make it stand
out:
ListHighlightFocusedSelection=1
From now on this behavior is also controlled by "Tools | Customize List | Highlight
Focused Item". Both need to be ON to make it happen.
Unwanted focused item highlighting since v23.30.0000
But now the people who don't want to highlight focused items will suffer, here is what they will have to do to partially fix this
1. Activate that setting in every folder view and then save the folder view setting
Tools | Customize List | Highlight Focused Items
View | Folder View Settings | Save Folder View
2. Figure out what gives this color and change it to the background color everywhere Configuration | Colors and Styles | Colors | List | Browse | Focused Item
Configuration | Colors and Styles | Colors | List | Drive | Focused Item
Configuration | Colors and Styles | Colors | List | Network | Focused Item
.... And it still won't quite work if this is ticked
Tools | Customize List | Highlight Sorted Columns
I think that changing the tweak default from 1 to 0 would be a better solution than binding two different settings together
ListHighlightFocusedSelection=0
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I don't get it.
Where's the problem?
Note that highlighting the selected focused item is standard in File Explorer.
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highlight focused item (setting) ListHighlightFocusedSelection (tweak)
ON ON highlight unselected and selected focused item
ON OFF highlight unselected focused item
OFF ON or OFF don't highlight focused item
Note that highlighting the selected focused item is standard in File Explorer.
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There is one case missing in this table: highlight selected but don't highlight unselected focused items (they are already "highlighted" by the focus box)
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To be completely honest I actually think it should be 1 by default and what you "fixed" was not a bug. You just should've told that guy/gal to change the tweak to 0 cause what he/she wanted was non-standard behavior...
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You mean the tweak ListHighlightFocusedSelection? It *is* 1 by default.
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Yes because as we can see on the very first screen, this is how it works in Windows Explorer.
PS: The extra bright highlighting for the selected focused items comes from the fact that you just can't see the box. This has nothing to do with the XY's extra feature Tools | Customize List | Highlight Focused Items, they should not be connected IMHO.
PPS: Alternatively, you could probably make the focus box color be contrast against both selected and unselected items to see which selected item is currently focused. But I'm not sure about this...
PS: The extra bright highlighting for the selected focused items comes from the fact that you just can't see the box. This has nothing to do with the XY's extra feature Tools | Customize List | Highlight Focused Items, they should not be connected IMHO.
PPS: Alternatively, you could probably make the focus box color be contrast against both selected and unselected items to see which selected item is currently focused. But I'm not sure about this...
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I now think this may actually be a better solution, just to unbind the focus box color from the selection color and let it to be set manually. You won't need this "extra-highlighting" for selected focused items plus it will work better in this case: try and see which one is focused in between of selected items
And it won't interfere with Tools | Customize List | Highlight Focused Items-
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Or use Dotted in Configuration | Colors and Styles | Highlights & Dark Mode | Focus rectangle.
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You are right! It solves this "selected focused item" situation completely.
It should've been the answer to my first post in this topic!
PS: But I'm glad It wasn't. I just compared more carefully just the rectangle vs the extra highlighting for selected focused items (Windows Explorer style) and I like the second one more. I still think it deserves the tweak and should be unbound of Tools | Customize List | Highlight Focused Items.
It should've been the answer to my first post in this topic!
PS: But I'm glad It wasn't. I just compared more carefully just the rectangle vs the extra highlighting for selected focused items (Windows Explorer style) and I like the second one more. I still think it deserves the tweak and should be unbound of Tools | Customize List | Highlight Focused Items.
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Here is the right table:admin wrote: ↑08 Aug 2022 11:29Code: Select all
highlight focused item (setting) ListHighlightFocusedSelection (tweak) ON ON highlight unselected and selected focused item ON OFF highlight unselected focused item OFF ON or OFF don't highlight focused item
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highlight focused item (setting) ListHighlightFocusedSelection (tweak)
ON ON highlight unselected and selected focused item
ON OFF highlight unselected focused item
OFF OFF don't highlight focused item
OFF ON highlight selected focused item
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v23.40.0013 - 2022-08-08 12:50
- List: Undid the change from v23.40.0011. Now tweak ListHighlightFocusedSelection is
NOT bound anymore to the setting of "Tools | Customize List | Highlight Focused Item".