Focus rectangle showing up despite being turned off

[o7blue]

1: XYplorer 28.30.2701 64bit
2: Windows 10
3: 100% Screen Scaling

Right off the bat, I cannot reproduce this in a fresh instance. This is only happening on my existing install, so I imagine the issue stems from my config, but I'm not sure what specifically could be causing it.
I noticed that after turning off the focus rectangle, the first item after navigating into a directory will have the focus rectangle on it regardless (that is to say the focus rectangle appears before I even click the item, it appears immediately after navigating into the folder):

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This focus rectangle will go away if:
- I click on the desktop and back on xy
- I click on the other pane, and then back on the original pane
- I open up the settings window with F9

Here's the thumbs section of my ini in case it's relevant:

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[Thumbs]
; Tweak: comma-separated list of values used for width and height in pixels
ThumbSizes=16,32,64,96,128,200,300,192,450,512,675,220
Width=300
Height=200
Width1=220
Height1=220
Width2=512
Height2=512
ColumnWidthMin=120
SymbolCaptionLines=2
Padding=0
Style=0
Cache=1
CacheReadOnly=0
CacheFind=0
CacheRemovable=1
CacheLocal=1
CacheIgnoreModified=0
CreateAllAtOnce=0
CachePathResolveFromCurrent=0
; Tweak: max area of thumbed images, 0 = unlimited
MaxArea=0
; Tweak: max area of high quality thumbnails, 0 = unlimited
MaxAreaHQ=50460000
; Tweak: max file size of thumbed images in bytes, 0 = unlimited
MaxFileSize=0
CacheDir=Thumbnails\
FolderThumbs=1
FolderThumbsShell=0
FolderThumbsDesktopIni=1
FolderThumbsAllImages=1
FolderThumbsAllVideos=1
FolderThumbsCustomExtensions=jpg.jpeg.png.gif.pdf.pdf
clrFolderThumbs1=2368548
clrFolderThumbs2=2368549
clrFolderThumbsBorder=7920891
clrFolderThumbsBorderWidth=1
ThumbsAutoRotate=1
ThumbsGrid=3
ShowFilmStripOverlay=1
ShowIcon=0
ShowPicSize=0
ShowPicSizeVideos=0
ShowCaptions=1
OverlayCaptions=0
; Tweak: TextColor (RRGGBB), BackColor (RRGGBB), Opaqueness (0-255), ThousandSeparator (0/1), WhichImageSize(0=original,1=embedded,2=both), FontSizePercentage (50-200)  //E.g.: 333333,FFFFFF,128,1,0,90
ThumbsOverlaySpecs=
; Tweak: eg: <prop #image.dimensions><crlf><prop #image.datetaken '© '>
ThumbsOverlayContent=
clrThumbsBack=16382457
UseClrThumbsBack=1
ThumbsShell=1
ThumbsRAWfiles=1
ThumbsMDBU=0
ThumbsMDBUm=0
ThumbsMDBUr=0
ThumbsMDBUrStayUp=0
ThumbsMDBUrFitScreen=0
ThumbsMDBUrFitWidth=0
ThumbsQuality=1
ThumbsVAlign=0
ThumbsZoomToFill=0
ThumbsZoomToFit=0
ThumbsOnTiles=1
TilesSmallSize=64
TilesLargeSize=128
TilesLargeExtraPhotoData=0
; Tweak: make no thumbs: ext.ext
NoThumb=mpg.mpeg.mkv
; Tweak: no 64-bit thumbnails
Thumbs64Skip=0
; Tweak: create thumbnails also for these extension
ThumbsExtraExtensions=
ThumbsSourceMapFile=
ThumbsInjectDeep=1
ThumbsShowFailure=0
; Tweak: icons same size as thumbnails
ThumbsIconsSameSize=0
; Tweak: create thumbnails also for cloud files
ThumbsOnCloud=0

Also, Auto-select first item is NOT selected:

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Are there any other parts of my XYplorer.ini I can provide to help troubleshoot this? This issue is really weird, when clicking off a selected item the focus rectangle doesn't show up. The focus rectangle only shows up when navigating into, or out of a directory (at least as far as I can tell). And so far it's only ever been the first item (folder or file).

[admin]

Strange, cannot reproduce. Does it also happen when you set Configuration | Colors and Styles | Highlights & Dark Mode | Selections to "XYplorer Style"?

[o7blue]

Yup, it's the same behavior on XYplorer Style selected.
Hm, I guess I might just back up my configuration and recreate it from scratch. Clearly this is something specific to my environment. Is there a recommended way to clear out my user configuration?

[admin]

Not so fast! If you like you can send your XYplorer.ini to me for testing.

[o7blue]

Sure thing, I attached my XYplorer.ini and took out the [Register] section from the top (but that's the only modification I made to it)

PS- And now I see the version the program updates from is actually saved here, wish I knew this when I reported the multiline caption ellipsis problem

[admin]

PS- And now I see the version the program updates from is actually saved here, wish I knew this when I reported the multiline caption ellipsis problem

This is done since a few days ago. Too late for you.

[admin]

Tested it but could not reproduce it.

[admin]

Could it be that your "Focus rectangle" is just the outline of a folder thumbnail (and that it disappears on hover is a drawing glitch that needs a fix)? Turn off folder thumbnails and try again.

[o7blue]

Ok, some interesting results- when Configuration | Preview | Thumbnails | Show folder thumbnails is unchecked, the focus rectangle stops appearing over folders. It still appears over image files in either case.

Show folder thumbnails ON

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Show folder thumbnails OFF

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4.png

There's also weird behavior when copying an image. I selected the image, ctrl+c, ctrl+v, it dropped the copy into the folder and selected it, and when I clicked in the empty space to deselect it, the focus rectangle appeared:

when copying.png

Lastly, I normally don't have 'highlight on hover' enabled, but when I enabled it and passed over the item with the focus rectangle it did indeed clear it. On both folders and images.

[admin]

It does only happen in thumbnails views?

[o7blue]

Yes, just double checked and in the details view the focus rectangle never shows up when disabled. Seems this is exclusive to thumbnails view.

[o7blue]

I just found something else, this issue ONLY happens in dark mode. In light mode everything is ok.
I actually renamed my XYplorer64 folder so it wouldn't get picked up, got a fresh instance and started to configure it one element at a time (thinking I might as well try it, restoring from the backup is easy after all). I'm glad I started off with turning on dark mode, didn't even take a minute for the issue to appear. So now I can say that this IS reproducible in a fresh instance. At least on my machine

Again, the state of the thumbnails immediately after opening a folder:

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[admin]

Got it, fixed it, next beta.

[o7blue]

Awesome! Updated to latest and can confirm it's fixed on my end