Strange breadcrumb behaviour

Vochomurka · Post by *Vochomurka » 2011-09-17, 05:07 UTC

1) When using the breadcrumb bar, the new "PathSelForm" button appears in the taskbar for every new subpath (as though it is a new application launched). At pressing this button with mouse (after moving the breadcrumb cursor with the keyboard) the button disappears, and the breadcrumb panel, too. It does not harm anything, but looks strange;
2) These breadcrumb panels have neither border nor shadow, so sometimes top-level and bottom-level paths overlap and look like one discontinuous menu that can fully confuse the user.

I've performs tests with a null ini-file and with a usual ini-file - nothing changes.

(WinSe7en64, TC 8.0x64)

Flint · Post by *Flint » 2011-09-17, 08:43 UTC

1) Confirm under XP x64.
2) Confirm missing borders but not shadows. (Did not test in Win7 though.)

Post by *petermad » 2011-09-17, 15:55 UTC

Actually it looks like TC's main window looses focus when the breadcrumb menu is opened (x64 version only).

Post by *ghisler(Author) » 2011-09-18, 15:04 UTC

I can confirm the problem with the taskbar - any idea how to hide a main form from it?

Actually it looks like TC's main window looses focus when the breadcrumb menu is opened (x64 version only).

This also happens with the 32-bit version, it's just fooling the user by not redrawing the title bar...

MVV · Post by *MVV » 2011-09-19, 12:55 UTC

I think same solution as here will help: http://ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?p=227343#227343

Post by *ghisler(Author) » 2011-09-20, 16:37 UTC

Unfortunately not - when I show no border, the window is restricted to the main window area - all other options create a dialog with a title bar. Also ShowInTaskBar set to stNever doesn't work either.

MVV · Post by *MVV » 2011-09-23, 07:36 UTC

Sounds strange. In Windows API borders may be enabled separately (styles WS_BORDER, WS_DLGFRAME, WS_CAPTION).

Hm-m, it seems that they don't support style changing just because it is not a portable solution... Dumb... However, they say thay it is possible to patch LCL-Win32 unit and add new form style (with border but w/o caption).

MVV · Post by *MVV » 2011-09-23, 10:06 UTC

Fixed in Beta2, thanks!

Post by *ghisler(Author) » 2011-09-23, 10:22 UTC

they say thay it is possible to patch LCL-Win32 unit

I did exactly that: In my change, when the border is set to none and the border width is >0, it will show a border but no title bar.

MVV · Post by *MVV » 2011-09-23, 10:54 UTC

And it works perfect!

Post by *petermad » 2011-09-26, 13:21 UTC

Fixed in TC 8.0b2