[TC 11.00rc1] Background Transfer Manager: focus rectangle issues

[white]

Issue 1:

• Use TC in normal mode (not dark mode)
• Open the Background Transfer Manager using the mouse
• Press the Tab key repeatedly
• The focus shifts to the different controls, but there is not focus rectangle.

This doesn't happen in dark mode or when the Background Transfer Manager is opened using the keyboard.


Issue 2:
In dark mode, the focus rectangle around "Speed limit" has full width instead of the width of the text.

[petermad]

The focus shifts to the different controls, but there is not focus rectangle.

Not confirmed - tested with TC 11.00rc1 32bit and 64bit on Windows 7 and 10.

In dark mode, the focus rectangle around "Speed limit" has full width instead of the width of the text.

Confirmed.

[Dalai]

IIRC the focus rectangle only appears when the system option to show underlined characters is enabled (maybe it's also shown when the Alt key is pressed). How is it configured on your system?

Regards
Dalai

[white]

IIRC the focus rectangle only appears when the system option to show underlined characters is enabled (maybe it's also shown when the Alt key is pressed).

Confirmed. On my system underlined characters are hidden. In all other dialogs the rectangle seems to appear when pressing Tab.

[petermad]

I can confirm that the rectangle is not shown when underlining hotkeys is disabled (Win 7) other wise it works fine: https://tcmd.madsenworld.dk/btmtab.mp4

[ghisler(Author)]

It only seems to happen when opening the background transfer manager via mouse, not via keyboard.

[white]

I think it has to do with the way you do keyboard handling in that dialog. If I add an access key to the string "Speed limit" in that dialog, the underlining also doesn't appear when pressing Alt and the access key doesn't work.

[ghisler(Author)]

Indeed it seems that I have to send WM_UPDATEUISTATE myself to the dialog when Alt or Tab is being pressed. This shows the focus and underlines. It's strange that I don't have to do this for regular forms, just for these dialogs created via Windows functions.

[white]

17.07.23 Fixed: Background transfer manager: When opened via mouse, pressing Tab didn't show focus rectangles for buttons (must call WM_UPDATEUISTATE when Tab or Alt is being pressed) (32/64)

Tested OK using TC 11.00rc2 32-bit and 64-bit.
I also tried adding an access key to the text Speed limit. The access key now becomes underlined when pressing Alt. So underlining and focus rectangle work now in this dialog. By the way, using the access key does not work.

Issue 2:
In dark mode, the focus rectangle around "Speed limit" has full width instead of the width of the text.

Unchanged.

[petermad]

17.07.23 Fixed: Background transfer manager: When opened via mouse, pressing Tab didn't show focus rectangles for buttons (must call WM_UPDATEUISTATE when Tab or Alt is being pressed) (32/64)

Confirmed fixed in TC 11.00rc2

I also tried adding an access key to the text Speed limit. The access key now becomes underlined when pressing Alt.

Yes, but the access key still does not work - only gives an error sound.

Issue 2:
In dark mode, the focus rectangle around "Speed limit" has full width instead of the width of the text.

Confirmed not fixed.

[ghisler(Author)]

Yes, but the access key still does not work - only gives an error sound.

Sorry, underlined hotkeys are currently not supported in these native dialogs. I don't currently have any plans to add this.

In dark mode, the focus rectangle around "Speed limit" has full width instead of the width of the text.

I tried to find a way to implement this, but it's not so easy. I'm drawing the text and the focus myself, but I don't know what distances are used by Windows on checkboxes around text, so I simply draw it at the control boundaries.

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2ghisler(Author)
OK, call it known issues then and move it to Behaviour which will not be changed?

BTW, are there more dialogs where you do this? Or is this the only one?

[ghisler(Author)]

The only native Windows dialogs are the background transfer manager, then the background copy dialog (F5-Enter-Background) and the "Wait" dialog when you open multiple files one by one with F4 in a multiple document editor.

[ghisler(Author)]

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Moved to will not be changed