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Old 03-15-2021, 10:31 AM   #10
icallaci
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Thanks, chaley. At least I understand why it happens now.

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Originally Posted by chaley View Post
The problem is that Qt, calibre's GUI toolkit, specifically allows menus to be activated while editing a widget. You can select a menu item and it can do 'things' without opening a dialog or otherwise taking keyboard focus, leaving the editor open. If one of those 'things' resets/changes the information for selected book then the editor will be abandoned and edits will be lost. Avoiding this behavior is outside of my Qt-fu. As far as I can tell calibre doesn't know it is happening.

Workarounds:
  • press Enter
  • press left or right arrow
  • click on a different column on the same book
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