Current Line in Book List

BetterRed · 08-30-2014, 10:16 PM

In version 2.1 the highlighting of the current cell has gone from lighter to darker as it was pre 2.0 - in 2.0 the current cell was lighter, I think darker is better

But

When I hit F2 on a cell the entire line loses its highlight. This is particularly irritating if the cell under edit is in a column with a fixed set of values and I glance away from the screen, when I look back at it its quite hard to see current line and cell. Pre 2.1 when I hit F2 on a cell the line highlight stayed in place.
If the current cell is a long text custom column then it is not highlighted, so when I tab to such a cell to hit F2 to bring up the Comments Editor I get no visual cue that I am at the right cell - this also happened in 2.0, but not in 1.48.
If I take focus away from the list to say click on an Author Name or scroll through Comments in Book Details then the line highlight disappears and I lose context of where I came from. This did not happen in V2.0 or earlier, the line highlight remained. This happens in Calibre style and System style, in System style the line number cell of the current line does retain a faint blue 'wash'.
Added : If I use System Style (I normally use Calibre Style) then the current cell is never highlighted darker or lighter, irrespective of column type - I only spotted this because I decided to see if System Style might fix item 3.

BR

kovidgoyal · 08-31-2014, 12:37 AM

In Qt 5 on windows when the book list loses focus, the selected items are not highlighted, I have no idea why, or how to workaround that, short of doing some serious surgery.

3 I have worked around by not allowing the book details panel to take input focus at all.

4 was always the case.

kovidgoyal · 08-31-2014, 01:33 AM

I figured out why: https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-41060

https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibr...5f4bc399c71996

BetterRed · 08-31-2014, 02:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

In Qt 5 on windows when the book list loses focus, the selected items are not highlighted, I have no idea why, or how to workaround that, short of doing some serious surgery.

3 I have worked around by not allowing the book details panel to take input focus at all.

Kovid - I have attached screen shots for Items 1 and 3 from Version 2.0 and Version 2.1.

From my perspective current line & cell highlighting worked fine in 2.0 with two minor exceptions - the current cell highlighting was 'harder to see' and long text cells were not highlighted at all. My preference for the Book List would be to go back to what was there in 2.0.

If you want me to test anything, you know where I am

BR

Quote:

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

I figured out why: https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-41060

https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibr...5f4bc399c71996

We x-posted - fanx

08-30-2014, 10:16 PM	#1
BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 21,681 Karma: 29711016 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	Current Line in Book List In version 2.1 the highlighting of the current cell has gone from lighter to darker as it was pre 2.0 - in 2.0 the current cell was lighter, I think darker is better But When I hit F2 on a cell the entire line loses its highlight. This is particularly irritating if the cell under edit is in a column with a fixed set of values and I glance away from the screen, when I look back at it its quite hard to see current line and cell. Pre 2.1 when I hit F2 on a cell the line highlight stayed in place. If the current cell is a long text custom column then it is not highlighted, so when I tab to such a cell to hit F2 to bring up the Comments Editor I get no visual cue that I am at the right cell - this also happened in 2.0, but not in 1.48. If I take focus away from the list to say click on an Author Name or scroll through Comments in Book Details then the line highlight disappears and I lose context of where I came from. This did not happen in V2.0 or earlier, the line highlight remained. This happens in Calibre style and System style, in System style the line number cell of the current line does retain a faint blue 'wash'. Added : If I use System Style (I normally use Calibre Style) then the current cell is never highlighted darker or lighter, irrespective of column type - I only spotted this because I decided to see if System Style might fix item 3. BR Last edited by BetterRed; 08-30-2014 at 10:56 PM. Reason: grammar & addition

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08-31-2014, 12:37 AM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,269 Karma: 27111060 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	In Qt 5 on windows when the book list loses focus, the selected items are not highlighted, I have no idea why, or how to workaround that, short of doing some serious surgery. 3 I have worked around by not allowing the book details panel to take input focus at all. 4 was always the case.

08-31-2014, 01:33 AM	#3
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,269 Karma: 27111060 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	I figured out why: https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-41060 https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibr...5f4bc399c71996

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