Missing file highlight bar?

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JimW
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Missing file highlight bar?

Post by JimW »

I found a display bug with xplorer2 lite, version 1.7.2.7.  It's installed on a DELL laptop running XP SP3.

When I first open xplorer2 the highlight bar over the file name is not drawn completely, in either window.  Sometimes it looks like this:

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http://entertainment.webshots.com/photo ... 4115WScaZk
{just click on the picture and select "full screen" to see it better}

Notice the red circles in the top panel (which is the active one); you can see that there's a vertical dotted line, almost like an outline of the highlight, but no highlight bar.

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http://entertainment.webshots.com/photo ... 4115AKnuoM
{just click on the picture and select "full screen" to see it better}

Notice the red circle in the bottom panel (which is the inactive one); it shows a partially drawn highlight bar too but there's no dots around the file name, only around the extension, size attrib and date.  The top panel still has the same problem as before.

If I hit the down arrow the highlight bar does get drawn again, and then works properly for the rest of the time I use xplorer2.  But once I exit the program and then reload it one -- or both -- of these problems occurs.  It happens every single time too.

Has this happened to anyone else?
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Post by nikos »

what you see is normal. You see the focus rectangle which is different from the selection bar. When there is no selection you just see the focus
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Post by JimW »

Thanks for the quick answer, it certainly clears up what I was seeing.

One thing I'm still confused about though; how come the focus rectangle is not always drawn the same each time?  Sometimes the inactive panel has those dots showing all the way around the first item, including the file name.  Sometimes it doesn't.  I would think it should be the same every time, shouldn't it?
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Post by nikos »

it's not perfect, i can't exactly say why but it's not my fault for sure :P