Annoying recent behavior in the editor tabs...

[rickg22]

Hi again guys. Here's something I need to report and perhaps get help about.

We know that since 8.02, C::B has this "open files" dialog pop up whenever you press ctrl-tab. I had always been a bit of annoyed by it, but I guess I had got used to it. This was fine until getting a recent nightly, which has another annoyance.

If by any chance the mouse happens to be over the editor tabs, whenever I press ctrl-left, instead of moving the cursor a word forward or backward, it moves the whole tabs. It's totally irritating, especially because over the years I've grown a habit for moving the mouse away from the editing area, just over the tabs most of the time, but until now I never noticed where the mouse was (which was actually the point).

Worst of all, whenever I the mouse happens to hover on one of the tabs, a little pop up showing the full filename shows. Which would be perfectly fine, except for a little detail: I can't type a thing. Grrrrr!!!!

So, here are a couple of requests that would make me very happy:

a) Provide the users with the (optional, of course) means to skip that popup list (I see now how ctrl-left and ctrl-right work on the tabs, so I guess ctrl-tab and ctrl-shift-tab could already be mapped on it... I hope).
b) Make ctrl-left and ctrl-right do what they're supposed to do.
c) Don't eat keystrokes when a tab hint shows up.

Thank you very much, and keep up the good work!

[oBFusCATed]

Unfortunately the eat key thing is something broken in the wxWidgets. It happens also for the debugger tooltips.
If you know a way to fix this problem, I'll be happy to implement the fix

[Jenna]

a) Provide the users with the (optional, of course) means to skip that popup list (I see now how ctrl-left and ctrl-right work on the tabs, so I guess ctrl-tab and ctrl-shift-tab could already be mapped on it... I hope).
b) Make ctrl-left and ctrl-right do what they're supposed to do.
c) Don't eat keystrokes when a tab hint shows up.

a)  uncheck "Settings -> Environment... -> Notebooks appearance -> Tooltips on tabs -> Show tooltips",
b) works correctly on linux, but on windows the focus is switched to the tabcontrol if the mouse is over it, because it can not catch mouse-events otherwise,
with other words hard to change, but I will look into it,
c) I will see if it's possible

[rickg22]

a)  uncheck "Settings -> Environment... -> Notebooks appearance -> Tooltips on tabs -> Show tooltips",

Um, that's not what I meant... I meant the little window that says:

Code

-----------------------------
       Open Files

   file1.cpp
   file2.cpp
   etc.
-----------------------------

whenever I press ctrl-tab or ctrl-shift-tab.

b) Thanks!
c) Thanks again!

I think that perhaps both b) and c) would be possible by redirecting all key events (that are not ctrl-tab or ctrl-shift-tab) to the editor widget.

EDIT: I just realized that the key-eating happens no matter if a hint appears or not... so perhaps there could be a way to just disable the autofocusing tabs on mouseover as a workaround? I see there's a "move tabs with mousewheel" option in the Environment Settings, but it doesn't affect on whether the tabs are auto-focused or not.

[Jenna]

Try to change the shortcut-key for "View -> Switch tabs" with the keybinder plugin.

For the key-eating (or better the forced mouse focus), it's done always on windows, not only if scrolling with the mouse-wheel is enabled, but this can most likely be changed easily (it's on my todo-list).

[rickg22]

Try to change the shortcut-key for "View -> Switch tabs" with the keybinder plugin.

Ah, wonderful! Now I feel more productive

For the key-eating (or better the forced mouse focus), it's done always on windows, not only if scrolling with the mouse-wheel is enabled, but this can most likely be changed easily (it's on my todo-list).

I wish I could give you a hand, but alas, my free time is reduced. Thanks!

[dmoore]

Unfortunately the eat key thing is something broken in the wxWidgets. It happens also for the debugger tooltips.
If you know a way to fix this problem, I'll be happy to implement the fix

Is there still no fix for this? (Drives me nuts when using a trackpad)

[Jenna]

Unfortunately the eat key thing is something broken in the wxWidgets. It happens also for the debugger tooltips.
If you know a way to fix this problem, I'll be happy to implement the fix

Is there still no fix for this? (Drives me nuts when using a trackpad)

Not reallay, the only part of the key-event I can catch is the key-up.
I can use it to close the tooltip, but the first keystroke is already eaten in that case.
I can also use it to inject the appropriate character in th eeditor, but this is errorprone, because keyhandling (especially for special charactres, or with metakeys pressed) is not so easy.

[oBFusCATed]

This is fixable, but you need to patch wxWidgets and you should add wxWANT_CHARS style to the tooltip. I had a patch somewhere, but I'm not sure where it is...