v1101, Directory opens in wrong pane

Gork · Post by **Gork** » 2004 Nov 14, 14:10

I am using x2 in dual pane mode. I connected to my home computer from work using WinXP's remote desktop (quite slick for a freebie) and opened x2 in order to transfer a file from work to home. Because of previous posts regarding networking improvements in the newest version of x2 I decided to test it out.

I tried to open one pane to the source directory, and due to networking issues over the Internet it took a few seconds after actually clicking on the directory name. During this time I decided to ready the other pane so I started browsing it to the destination directory. When the directory for the first pane finally populated, it populated in the now active 2nd pane instead of in the first pane where I initially opened the directory.

I would think the directory should have populated to the pane I initially clicked the link from, and am thinking this might be a problem with x2. What do you think?

ckit · Post by **ckit** » 2004 Nov 15, 01:59

Where did you get xplorer2 v1.1.0.1?

Gandolf · Post by **Gandolf** » 2004 Nov 15, 02:33

Nikos posted a bug fix a few days ago - www.ps.ic.ac.uk/~umeca74/interim11.zip. I assume it's still there.

ckit · Post by **ckit** » 2004 Nov 15, 04:08

Thanks Gandolf, it's gone

Gandolf · Post by **Gandolf** » 2004 Nov 15, 04:14

I just checked and it's there. Did you get caught by the full stop at the end of the URL? If a URL ends a sentence the full stop can appear as part of the URL and hence makes it invalid (I've been caught by it before).

ckit · Post by **ckit** » 2004 Nov 15, 05:14

Yeah, the full-stop confused Getright.

Post by **nikos** » 2004 Nov 15, 09:10

gork, the only way i can thing this could have happened is if you were holding Alt when you clicked on the folder in the first place

Gork · Post by **Gork** » 2004 Nov 15, 19:18

nikos
Actually, no, I wasn't holding down <alt>. And, I just duplicated the problem from home while attempting to access another computer on my LAN. I navigated in pane 1 to the other computer, clicked on a folder, quickly clicked in pane 2 before the folder populated. When the folder I clicked on in pane 1 populated it did so in pane 2 instead of in pane 1 as it should have.

Post by **nikos** » 2004 Nov 15, 19:46

i can't reproduce that
if x2 is blocked reading a folder, then it won't respond to clicks of any sort
do you have single-click activation on perhaps?

Gork · Post by **Gork** » 2004 Nov 16, 02:37

Yes, I use single click activation with hover selection.

Post by **nikos** » 2004 Nov 16, 08:23

i should remove this feature, such a hassle and causing all these quirky bugs!

only joking!
i hope it's not too much of a problem for you because i can't think of any solution

Gork · Post by **Gork** » 2004 Nov 16, 10:45

Well, I didn't use single/hover until recently - until a verison where I noticed both options were available. Enacting them made me realize how much I missed using Win Explorer that way.

It seems like 2x places the results of a click in the pane which is active when the result comes back as opposed to remembering which pane the request was initially processed in. It is really weird that the issue only shows up with single/hover activated, though. I just tried to repeat the issue without single/hover and couldn't... I guess I'll just have to remember to use a Win Explorer window if I need to use two directories at once while networking. I mean, I'm not MISSING OUT on anything by using single/hover - it just doesn't pause both panes to wait the same way as it does without single/hover.