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Tag field seems empty while typing
bob:
Actually for that case I see what's going on.
Tested it for windows and it doesn't close the box.
It turns out the box isn't actually closed, the focus change (clicking on the track with the edit box open) makes the UI come to the front.
The edit box is still there. It's below the UI. You can see it by moving the UI to the right or left to uncover the underlying edit box.
This particular case is due to the fact the windows automatically stacks the windows whereas linux doesn't do that at all and Mac does it differently.
aliciaviola:
"I suspect it's a uninitialized variable but that's just a guess.
It sure would be good to be able to reproduce it consistently, otherwise it's going to be nearly impossible to find."
It's consistently. Every time I am working with tags on my Mac (newest software, newest MC build). And that's every day
a hundred times.
It really can't be that this is only reproducible for a handful (two?) people.
bob:
--- Quote from: aliciaviola on September 12, 2022, 05:00:40 pm ---"I suspect it's a uninitialized variable but that's just a guess.
It sure would be good to be able to reproduce it consistently, otherwise it's going to be nearly impossible to find."
It's consistently. Every time I am working with tags on my Mac (newest software, newest MC build). And that's every day
a hundred times.
It really can't be that this is only reproducible for a handful (two?) people.
--- End quote ---
It certainly can be!
Like I said in my last message above, we did reproduce that specific case.
It involves the order in a sequence of clicking (and is triggered by the shortcut of leaving the field edit control open allowing switching of tracks to simplfy editing a group of files).
That particular one involved a focus change and window ordering change that only happened when the same line that the tags were being edited on was clicked with the edit open. This is non-windows only for sure.
We seem to have figured that one out. Whether or not it will apply to the other use cases is not clear.
blgentry:
--- Quote from: bob on September 12, 2022, 02:01:37 pm ---Not sure that's the same, the edit box control closes then.
Isn't the issue that the edit box is open and you can't see the text in the field?
--- End quote ---
When the bug occurs, the field goes to a background color and the text is hidden. This is what happens with my procedure above and every other time I've seen this happen.
See this video that was posted earlier in the thread:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/3fhkx6f4196ytda/Screen%20Recording%202022-09-10%20at%2008.01.15.mov?dl=0
See how the field becomes a different color and the text "disappears"?
Thanks,
Brian.
EnglishTiger:
blgentry - Thanks for reposting the link to the video showing The Tag Window misbehaving.
Since I was intent on getting MC to misbehave there is something in that video that I dd not notice until I revisited it via your link
When creating a skin a skin creator provides 3 Textures:- Group, FieldLabel and Field for the Modern Tag Window
"Group" is the one used for the "Section Headings" in the Modern Tag Window, "FieldLabel" is the one behind the Field/Tag Names and "Field" is a 2-Part Image where the 1st Part provides the background for the Field Content when he field/tag is in i's closed state with the 2nd part provides the background when it is in its Open/Editable state.
In that Skin:- "Group" is the darker of the 3, incidentally it is also a 2-part image, part 1 for when the Group/Section is collapsed and part 2 for when it is expanded.
"FieldLabel" is the slightly lighter one while "Field" is the even lighter one. If you carefully watch the video when MC behaves itself when opening a tag to edit it, the background correctly looks similar/identical to the FieldLabel background. But when it misbehaves the user gets to see an empty field with a darker grey background.
Since that skin was created by me, I have been able to Identify which Image/Texture could be providing that Darker Grey background; hopefully this may give Matt & Bob some more clues to what's going on, of the 3 Textures used by the Advanced Tag Window the one that uses that Darker Grey is the "Group" one!!
I am basing my assumption on the simple fact that it is the only Darker Grey Image the Skin uses which, like the empty box that appears when MC is misbehaving, does not have any borders as a part of the image.
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