Robert Roessler wrote:
Neil Hodgson wrote:
mozers:
Selection becomes invisible after loss of focus by SciTE window.
Any known program does not act so poorly.
How to make seen selection at inactive SciTE window?
Answer, please.
Very much it is necessary.
This is a deliberate feature and is compliant with the Windows User
Experience Guidelines:
"It is best to display the selection appearance only for the scope,
area, or level (window or pane) that is active. This helps the user
recognize which selection currently applies and the extent of the
scope of that selection. Therefore, avoid displaying selections in
inactive windows or panes, or at nested levels."
I seriously disagree whether the intent (or best practice) here is to
display *nothing* for a selection in an inactive window/pane...
*dimming* (or other less attention-getting effect), OTOH, makes quite a
lot of sense for just the *reasons* used above.
And this "de-emphasis" is precisely what apps (Microsoft and
third-party) do on both XP and Vista (I just checked Vista to make
sure)... but the selection [area] is still clearly visible and
distinguishable from the backgrounds.
You are partially right...
Perhaps this behaviour date back from Win98/WinNT4 times, I don't know,
but it always seemed natural and, perhaps by force of habit, I am
annoyed when an application that as not the focus shows selection in
default mode.
Indeed, in a number of applications in XP Pro SP2 which I am testing
right now, including Mozilla programs, the selection goes from black (in
my settings) to grey.
Now, it depends on controls: plain combo boxes/edit controls hide the
selection when loosing focus, although Notepad shows it in black, and so
is Wordpad.
List boxes keep the selection black while list views and tree views
(Windows Explorer, HTML Help...) grey it out.
Internet Explorer (and HTML Help) hides the selection...
As you see, the behaviour seems not universal, and seems to depend on
age of control and whim of designer...
Now, come to think of it, greying out the selection doesn't seem like a
bad thing to do... Keeping it black is really disturbing, on the other hand.
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Philippe Lhoste
-- (near) Paris -- France
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