TC 9.20 64 - Start Search button loses focus

[chandragor]

When you open Find Files dialog (Alt-F7) the "Start search" button has the "default" attribute, so when you press Enter it immediately start searching.

If you switch to the "Load/Save" tab and select a profile the "Load" button becomes the "default" button, but when you press it, or if you double-click a profile, it usually switches to the "General" tab and the "Start search" button regains its "default" attribute.

In TC 9.20 64 whenever you select the "Load/Save" tab the "Load" button becomes always the "default" button, even if no profile is selected, and if you double-click a profile it switches to the "General" tab but the "Start search" button has lost its "default" attribute and if you press Enter nothing happens and you have to click on it to effectively start search.

TC 9.20 32 has not this problem and it works as it always did every previous version of TC.

[ghisler(Author)]

Thanks, seems to be a Lazarus bug. You have two alternatives until I find a solution:
1. Press Enter instead of double clicking, or
2. Click on the "Load" button

In both cases, the focus goes back to the start search button.

[chandragor]

I really like your 1st solution: one mouse click to select the profile and two Enter to Load & Execute.

Thanks.

[ghisler(Author)]

This should be fixed in TC 9.21 rc1, please test it!

[ghisler(Author)]

Can anyone else try it, please? Thanks!

[petermad]

I can confirm that the "Start search" button regains its "default" attribute after double-clicking on a saved search in TC 9.20rc1.

But there is still a difference between the 64bit version and the 32bit version. In the 64bit version if you press arrow-down after you have opened the "Load/Save" tab you can immediately start going down the list of saved searches. In the 32bit version you have to press Tab first before you can arrow-down the list. And the "Load" button isn't activated before the "Previous searches:" box has focus - I prefer the way of the 64bit version.

[ghisler(Author)]

Great, thanks for confirming the fix!

I will consider changing the behaviour of the focus.

Edit: I have checked this now: It's a different implementation of the tab control in 32-bit and 64-bit: In 32-bit, the tab control gets the focus when you press Ctrl+Tab or click on a tab. In 64-bit, the controls on the tab control keep the focus. I prefer not to change that for now, because it could have bad side effects.