Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[xzeezeex]

I'm experiencing a bug with MC 21 for Mac with strange resize or move behavior. Key to this is that I'm using a Wacom tablet to move the cursor. I don't have any problem at all with any other application using the tablet, just MC. Also, I don't have these problems when using a mouse.

Basically, when I release the mouse (stylus in this case), the window snaps to either an arbitrary position (if moving the window) or an arbitrary size (if resizing). It's very frustrating.

I've made a video that shows this behavior.

https://youtu.be/dEvawTlxvls

[blgentry]

Didn't you know MC is supposed to be kept full screen most of the time?? 

(Just a little humor)

Brian.

[xzeezeex]

I do most of the time actually, but even clicking on the window can cause it to resize and move randomly.

[couchjr]

I see this frequently too when moving or resizing the MC window on an iPad Air2 using Splasthop as control for my Mac Mini audio server, where the actual MC app is running. Seems to help some if I move my finger very slowly, but that doesn't always work. Sometimes the window will simply vanish offscreen when I release my finger, and I have to quit MC and restart, which is, as the OP suggests, very frustrating. I don't see this behavior on any other application using the same devices.

[xzeezeex]

Glad I'm not the only one. 

I suspect it has something to do with how MC is polling for the end of the touch or drag event. I've noticed that if I drag or resize and then pause for a second, it helps.

[JimH]

Please include the full version that you're using.

[xzeezeex]

21.0.55

[Fred1]

That's a very old problem.

I'm on 21.0.7 and when i click somewhere near the top in the black area (or close outside the progress bar) then the main window goes small until i click the green button to maximize the window again.

This bug has been there at least since version 20 but i think also before.
I had reported the bug long time ago but gave up meanwhile.

[Awesome Donkey]

Yeah, this is also an issue in the Linux version of MC.

[glynor]

I've definitely seen it, but I don't see it all of the time.

Is it when the edge of MC passes outside the viewable area of the Desktop or something? I can't remember what triggers it.

[Fred1]

Is it when the edge of MC passes outside the viewable area of the Desktop or something? I can't remember what triggers it.

If you are using the default skin it happens when you are clicking on a black location at the top of the window (when the window is maximized). If you click on any control, the window stays maximized. You have to click on non-control areas.

[xzeezeex]

It happens for me whenever I click and drag on the top black portion of the window (to move it) or the bottom right corner (to resize).

[blgentry]

I'm on 21.0.7 and when i click somewhere near the top in the black area (or close outside the progress bar) then the main window goes small until i click the green button to maximize the window again.

The OP is reporting a problem that is SPECIFIC to using a Wacom tablet instead of a mouse.  Those touch pads that you draw on with a stylus.

The behavior you are reporting seems to be the "auto un-maximize" behavior.  Here's what happens for me:  If the window is maximized and I click it in it's title bar area, nothing happens.  Double click, same thing.  Double click used to toggle maximized and non-maximized, but this was fixed several months ago.  If yours still does this, you should upgrade to the latest build.

Ok, so clicking does nothing.  But if I click and then drag (while holding the mouse button down) like I want to move the window, then it goes down to it's non-maximized size, whatever that happens to be.  It's whatever size I last set it to when not maximized.  I can then move the window.  When I let go it stops but stays non-maximized.  Clicking the green maximize button brings it back to maximized again.

Doesn't seem like much of a problem to me, but maybe it works differently with the older build (21.0.7).  Try upgrading to the latest and see what happens.

Brian.

[glynor]

The OP is reporting a problem that is SPECIFIC to using a Wacom tablet instead of a mouse.  Those touch pads that you draw on with a stylus.

Ahh, yes. I forgot.

I have two of those (a Cintiq and a Bamboo) somewhere kicking around here, but I don't know where...

[RonaldX2]

I am coping with this annoyance since generations of MC (on OS X).
Since I am satisfied with version 19 (besides of this problem) I tried more recently trail versions of MC only to discover that this has not been fixed yet.

--> I wonder: Will this ever be fixed?!

Ronald

[murl0c]

Any fixes?

[Awesome Donkey]

Maximize the window is about all one can really do.