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Old 05-10-2013, 06:18 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by chaley View Post
Quickview in the column context menu is a good idea. I submitted the changes to Kovid and they are now in trunk. The menu item is shown if the column is "quickview"able. It is disabled if more than one book is selected to avoid any selection ambiguity.

FWIW: clicking in a non-quickviewable field will change the book but not change the selected column. As title isn't quickviewable, that is a good column to use to change the contents of the quickview window without changing the column being examined.
I think you are looking for the tweak "Control behavior of the book list (ID: doubleclick_on_library_view)". If you set the tweak to "edit_metadata" then single clicks on cells change the selection but do nothing else.
@chaley thanks for progressing my idea for including Quickview in the column name context menu. When I use the mouse to select a book, I click on the row number - spreadsheet habit

And thanks for pointing me at the tweak, I'd prefer to have independent control over what single & double click do. But, I'll have a play around - its not a big deal for me, I use the keyboard a lot more than the mouse.

But how about a tweak for current cell highlighting - what I see is a subtle barely there skinny tapered underline of the cell text, what I'd prefer is an in your face black cell border - like the Excel default

Its an issue that goes beyond the book list spread sheet, its very easy to lose sight of what control has the focus. If you move the mouse wheel over Book details that takes focus away from the list, which 'disables' the menu key. Fortunately Kovid has fixed that in the latest release with the Focus the Book List keyboard shortcut.

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