TC10.50b5: Dotted line cursor in inactive panel

[yong]

Is this a new feature? Can it be turned off? It's not mentioned in history.txt.

[trafan]

Hi,

you can change it in wincmd.ini

[Configuration]
InactiveFocus=0



If you're using dark mode, you may have to add
InactiveFocusDark=0




trafan

[ghisler(Author)]

It's an old feature, I must have enabled it by mistake when adding InactiveFocusDark. It can be disabled as trafan describes.

[Slavic]

While it's an old feature, long time counted as experimental, it's quite useful. However, it still cannot be configured in Configuration, Color, where it would be possible to select its look, like current dotted rectangle or a specific color mark.

Please consider to add this option like "Inactive cursor". For example, it can be placed as additional line to drop-down list "Others" above the current "Lister". In such case, no need to change design of this panel, only add a selection-dependent line.

[jiangzhenjerry]

If not for this accidental enablement, I would not have known this feature even exists. So, thanks for the bug

However, it doesn't seem true that InactiveFocusDark "uses the value from normal mode when not set" (as mentioned in the change log). The RGB value I set for InactiveFocus doesn't propagate to the dark mode. I still need to set the two values separately, even though I intend to make them the same.

[tuska]

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However, it doesn't seem true that InactiveFocusDark "uses the value from normal mode when not set" (as mentioned in the change log).
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It's a bug, InactiveFocusDark should take the value from InactiveFocus but doesn't. Will be fixed in the next beta.

[jiangzhenjerry]

Thanks! I missed ghisler's comment in the other post.

[yong]

It's an old feature, I must have enabled it by mistake when adding InactiveFocusDark. It can be disabled as trafan describes.

I never knew such a feature ever exists until yesterday. But it would be much better if it could be configured in Configuration as Slavic has suggested.

On a side note, I now sometime mistake the dotted line cursor for the real cursor, because in the old days (before the advent of Windows 10?) the cursor was shown as a dotted line.

[petermad]

Just to make it clear for the readers of this topic. O (zero) isn't the only value for this parameter -it is much more comprehensive:

InactiveFocus=0 Set to 1 or RGB value (see description of BackColor below) to show cursor in the target panel too. Accepts hex in form $BBGGRR.
Add $1000000 = dashes, $2000000=dashes/dots, $3000000=solid frame

So you can set both color and border type with this parameter - example: InactiveFocus=$3FF0000 -> solid blue

[AntonyD]

Probably this thread could be mode to English sub-forum - because we talk already not about some BUG being found...
More precisely, one bug related to the cursor in the inactive panel was found - but it has already been fixed at beta6.
So everything is fine from this side now!

[ghisler(Author)]

Moderator message

Moved to English forum

[Ceras]

In 10.50 beta5, the selection checkbox was displayed in the InActive panel when selecting an object, but this function does not work anymore. (in beta 6, 7)

Is there no way to activate it? Or is it intended?

Anyway, thank you for your hard work in developing a good program.

[white]

Moderator message from: white » 2022-05-25, 19:17 UTC

Post merged with this thread.

[white]

In 10.50 beta5, the selection checkbox was displayed in the InActive panel when selecting an object, but this function does not work anymore. (in beta 6, 7)

As you can read above, it was enabled by mistake in beta 5.

Is there no way to activate it? Or is it intended?

You can read above how to enable it.