RISC OS Open: Forum: Filer window redraw bug when dragging pinboard icons

Oct 21, 2015 9:34am

This bug comes from a customer email, plus I reproduced it on a (different) customer’s (fully loaded) machine.

ROM is 5.23 11th Oct.

Half-cover a pinboard icon with a filer window. I did this top-bottom (ie. covered top half of icon with a filer window. Now, drag the pinboard icon. The filer window isn’t redrawn properly, and a grey rectangle is left.

OK, this stems from the wimp visual flag -NoIconBoxesInTransparentWindows

This flag is used to prevent the grey background “box” appearing behind text on the pinboard, which tends to look very ugly on an attractive backdrop.

Oct 21, 2015 10:10am

Colin (478) 2433 posts

It looks related to the pinboard claiming the input focus while dragging a pinboard icon. If the window you use to cover the pinboard icon doesn’t have the input focus it works correctly.

Oct 21, 2015 11:38am

Fred Graute (114) 645 posts

It seems to happen when the Filer window has input focus and the Pinboard icon has a standard 256 colour palette. The -NoIconBoxesInTransparentWindows (sic) doesn’t seem to make any difference.

Iconised NetSurf and StrongED windows leave a grey rectangle, Filer and Paint windows don’t. The former have a standard palette, the latter a custom palette.

Oct 21, 2015 12:28pm

Sprow (202) 1158 posts

The filer window isn’t redrawn properly, and a grey rectangle is left.

This has already been reported as ticket #402 so it just needs someone willing and able to look into it.

In an effort to keep the signal-to-noise ratio here a bit higher, I’ve put a copy of the ROOL tickets on my site so at least the titles can be checked. Note this isn’t a proper mirror, it’s just the top level page grabbed last weekend, while we wait for the webmaster to be free enough to ponder why it’s running slow.

Oct 21, 2015 5:39pm

Steve Pampling (1551) 8172 posts

This has already been reported as ticket #402 so it just needs someone willing and able to look into it.

My initial thought was to comment on the routine server response.

“This website is under heavy load”

but you already know and have the pointy stick readied for use.

BTW. Has anyone managed to add any bug tickets in recent months?

Handy at least to have a read only copy to refer to, I’m sure you’ll be thanked many times over.

Oct 22, 2015 10:15am

Jean-Michel BRUCK (2807) 1 post

Example to reproduce the bug:
1)I use the Filer with small icons.No bug with Large icons !
2) If I open a directory for the first time no bug, but if I leave it displayed and open an other directory (or clicking on IconBar Apps), when I try to drag a file from the first opened directory, the problem arise…
If you display the content of directory in one column, the bug is on the first an last files not between….

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Oct 21, 2015 9:34am Andrew Rawnsley (492) 1445 posts	This bug comes from a customer email, plus I reproduced it on a (different) customer’s (fully loaded) machine. ROM is 5.23 11th Oct. Half-cover a pinboard icon with a filer window. I did this top-bottom (ie. covered top half of icon with a filer window. Now, drag the pinboard icon. The filer window isn’t redrawn properly, and a grey rectangle is left. OK, this stems from the wimp visual flag -NoIconBoxesInTransparentWindows This flag is used to prevent the grey background “box” appearing behind text on the pinboard, which tends to look very ugly on an attractive backdrop.

Oct 21, 2015 10:10am Colin (478) 2433 posts	It looks related to the pinboard claiming the input focus while dragging a pinboard icon. If the window you use to cover the pinboard icon doesn’t have the input focus it works correctly.

Oct 21, 2015 11:38am Fred Graute (114) 645 posts	It seems to happen when the Filer window has input focus and the Pinboard icon has a standard 256 colour palette. The -NoIconBoxesInTransparentWindows (sic) doesn’t seem to make any difference. Iconised NetSurf and StrongED windows leave a grey rectangle, Filer and Paint windows don’t. The former have a standard palette, the latter a custom palette.

Oct 21, 2015 12:28pm Sprow (202) 1158 posts	The filer window isn’t redrawn properly, and a grey rectangle is left. This has already been reported as ticket #402 so it just needs someone willing and able to look into it. In an effort to keep the signal-to-noise ratio here a bit higher, I’ve put a copy of the ROOL tickets on my site so at least the titles can be checked. Note this isn’t a proper mirror, it’s just the top level page grabbed last weekend, while we wait for the webmaster to be free enough to ponder why it’s running slow.

Oct 21, 2015 5:39pm Steve Pampling (1551) 8172 posts	This has already been reported as ticket #402 so it just needs someone willing and able to look into it. My initial thought was to comment on the routine server response. “This website is under heavy load” but you already know and have the pointy stick readied for use. BTW. Has anyone managed to add any bug tickets in recent months? Handy at least to have a read only copy to refer to, I’m sure you’ll be thanked many times over.

Oct 22, 2015 10:15am Jean-Michel BRUCK (2807) 1 post	Example to reproduce the bug: 1)I use the Filer with small icons.No bug with Large icons ! 2) If I open a directory for the first time no bug, but if I leave it displayed and open an other directory (or clicking on IconBar Apps), when I try to drag a file from the first opened directory, the problem arise… If you display the content of directory in one column, the bug is on the first an last files not between….