Marquee box doesn't detect file selection accurately...

[TsunamiZ]

Marquee selection box doesn't detect file selection accurately at the end of long filenames. Can this be fixed?

In this screenshot, the .dll file should be highlighted when the marquee touches the file. But it isn't working properly...

[TheQwerty]

Cannot reproduce that here.

[TsunamiZ]

btw: im on xy 9.0, win7 x64. also have autosize columns set and in list view mode.

[TsunamiZ]

Also, noticed the opposite happening here on short file names. Notice the files highlight before the marquee touches the files. Seems to be very inconsistent behavior...

[TheQwerty]

Vista x64, XY v9.00.0010, list view, auto-size columns. Still cannot reproduce.

[TsunamiZ]

perhaps lets see if someone can reproduce this on windows 7...

[TsunamiZ]

i just tested this some more. this time i downloaded a fresh portable XYplorer 9.00.0010 with default settings. the problems happens in list view mode. i didn't change any other settings.

[zer0]

I do seem to be able to reproduce something resembling this bug on Win 7...

Say I have one file in a folder and the list is sorted by name. It's enough for me to make it so even a tiny part of selection marquee enters that column and that file becomes selected without actually being selected. With "Full Row Select" it is even worse as marquee entering any of the columns -- not just by which a list is sorted -- causes selection.

In a list with multiple files, the bottom one gets selected if marquee box is created in the white space below the file list.

[admin]

Marquee selection box doesn't detect file selection accurately at the end of long filenames. Can this be fixed?

In this screenshot, the .dll file should be highlighted when the marquee touches the file. But it isn't working properly...

This is a feature. The List view deliberately preserves 20 pixels width at the right of each column for easier drag-selecting of items (without triggering a drag). I decided this years ago but I think it has never been discussed nor documented. Up to now nobody has complained.

[admin]

I do seem to be able to reproduce something resembling this bug on Win 7...

Say I have one file in a folder and the list is sorted by name. It's enough for me to make it so even a tiny part of selection marquee enters that column and that file becomes selected without actually being selected. With "Full Row Select" it is even worse as marquee entering any of the columns -- not just by which a list is sorted -- causes selection.

In a list with multiple files, the bottom one gets selected if marquee box is created in the white space below the file list.

Confirmed. This is an artifact of my otherwise perfect drag-selection algorithm which I could not fix without sacrificing lots of performance (with a 10% chance that I'm just having a selective blindness for the obvious fix). I decided to live with it.

[zer0]

Confirmed. This is an artifact of my otherwise perfect drag-selection algorithm which I could not fix without sacrificing lots of performance (with a 10% chance that I'm just having a selective blindness for the obvious fix). I decided to live with it.

I'm not sure if it is appropriate to live with it. Files becoming selected without actually being selected -- at least on the face of it -- doesn't sound right at all. While slower performance isn't a good thing -- how much are we talking about in terms of metrics? -- it's not a bug, whereas files being selected without an explicit command is. Striving for performance shouldn't have to allow for cutting corners like that.

[admin]

Confirmed. This is an artifact of my otherwise perfect drag-selection algorithm which I could not fix without sacrificing lots of performance (with a 10% chance that I'm just having a selective blindness for the obvious fix). I decided to live with it.

I'm not sure if it is appropriate to live with it. Files becoming selected without actually being selected -- at least on the face of it -- doesn't sound right at all. While slower performance isn't a good thing -- how much are we talking about in terms of metrics? -- it's not a bug, whereas files being selected without an explicit command is. Striving for performance shouldn't have to allow for cutting corners like that.

I fixed it.

[zer0]

I fixed it.

Now if only you told me when you were in London I would have bought you a pint of the finest ale in Her Majesty's land! Thank you sir

[TsunamiZ]

so this is a feature...


but this is fixed...


is that correct?

[admin]

so this is a feature...


but this is fixed...


is that correct?

Uhm, I think yes. Not that sure what you mean. I'm used to be addressed in full sentences...