Reported keyboard input focus in Thumbnails mode

[albert456745]

Hello,

In Thumbnails window, I am used to navigate through folders structure (the left panel) using keyboard arrow keys. Once I am in the desired folder, I click on an image (the right panel) to open it.

Now I want to go in another folder.

So I close the current image pressing "escape" key once. After, I click on a folder in the folders structure, and want to navigate again in the folders structure, using keyboard arrow keys.

Here is the problem. Sometimes it works as expected, but sometimes (quite often), it doesn't. What it happens: the focus is on the right panel. When I press arrow keys, it navigates through images, not folders.

So I try to click again on another folder, but it still gives focus back to right panel.

I would like to add that I remember of previous versions of IrfanView which didn't have this strange focus behaviour. As more, this behaviour happens randomly. For these 2 reasons, I think the "strange focus behavious" is actually a bug.

Tested on 2 computers:
- WinXP Pro x86 SP3, CPU Athlon64 (single core)
- WinXP Pro x86 SP2, CPU Athlon (single core)

Thank you,
albert456745

[Mij]

I cannot reproduce this in Vista. Thumbnails normally restores with the focus in the right hand pane so you do need to set it back to the left one to use the arrow keys there. The focus is in that pane when the highlight is blue.

Unlike some applications you do have to (left) click directly on the folder name to select it. Just clicking on a blank area alongside does not work. The folder icon is probably a better place to click actually, or you can use Ctrl+Tab to switch the focus between the three panes - left, right and top.

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

I don't see the problem here either.

Note that you can use Control Tab to navigate from thumbnails to folders.

[albert456745]

I made tests and more precisely spotted the problem

in my testcase, I have a large number of folders (50+), each folder containing a large number of images (200+)

the problem happens (and always happens) if I try to navigate through folders when thumbnails creation is still in progress


step-by-step:

1) of course, open Thumbnails window

2) double-click an image to open it

3) close image window
--> focus is at right, ok

4) click on another folder
--> folder is opened, thumbnails creation starts, but folders panel doesn't have focus
(at this moment, if I press key down, focus is given to images panels)

5) as soon as thumbnails creation is finished, focus is given to folders panel
(alternative to have folders panel focus before thumbnails creation is finished: click a second time on the same folder)

6) folders panel have focus, I can navigate with keyboard, and even if thumbnails creation is not finished I do not lost focus


the exact problem is that with previous versions of IrfanView I could navigate with keyboard between steps 4 and 5, no need of waiting thumbnails generation end or click again on the same folder