When opening bps file the focus of batchpatch is on the 'New 1' tab

[twoj]

I’m in the habit of opening one of my bps files and I notice there is a glitch where my bps list is visible in BP but when I right click any item on the list the context menu is for the ‘New 1’ tab which is empty. So I have to always close the ‘New 1’ tab before I can get the correct context menu for my list.

Any way to correct this?

thanks

[doug]

twoj – I’m not sure I understand what you are describing. I *think* I get what you’re saying but at the same time it’s not making any sense to me. I can’t reproduce the behavior, and I can’t quite understand how it’s even possible for this to be happening under the hood (unless I’m misunderstanding). First, it sounds like you are using “multi-grid” view as opposed to the regular tabbed view, yes? So, if you have two visible grids in the layout, and you left click OR right click on either grid, that grid should become the “active” grid, which is indicated by it getting a darker gray and darker blue background color scheme, as opposed the lighter colors that are used for the non-active grids. If I’m understanding you correctly, you’re saying that even though you right click (or left click) on gridX, it still stays as a non-active grid, while a different gridY that you are NOT clicking on remains as the active grid? Am I understanding correctly? What version of BatchPatch are you using? Do you have the latest version? Could you screenshot or even better yet take a video capture for me to be able to see what you are seeing? You won’t be able to post it directly to this forum, but you could use imgur or similar. Alternatively, just let me know that you have it, and I’ll email you at the address you used to register your forum account, so that you can send it to me directly.

Thanks,

Doug

[twoj]

I’m using the default tab mode, when I open a bps file with my computers I have as the first tab ‘New 1’ and then my bps list on the 2nd tab. As soon as I right click on the screen it seems to have focus on the first tab (New 1) and not on my tab.

I’ve uploaded a video so you can see whats happening – sorry for the quality but its a demo.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/08ft0op89a65eg2/VID_20141009_133741.mp4?dl=0

[doug]

Wow. That is super-weird. Thanks for the video. I’m now able to reproduce it.

First, just as a very quick workaround/solution for you:

The issue only occurs when/if you use ‘Right click > open’ on a .bps file. If you instead simply double-click the .bps file to launch it, BatchPatch will launch with only that .bps file and NO ‘new 1’ tab. Please give this is a try. Is there a specific reason that you are using ‘Right click > open’ ? Or is it just habit? 🙂

Second, I expect that we should be able to fix this in the next release.

Thanks again,

Doug

[twoj]

Actually if I double-click and open the bps file and only my list open (ie no ‘new 1’ tab) and then I close BP. Next if I double-click my bps file again it opens with the ‘new 1’ tab and my list, which causes the issue.

Anyways at least you see what the issue is, I don’t open & close it too often so its not a big annoyance.

[doug]

I understand what you’re saying. That issue occurs because of the “Tools > Settings > Remember open tabs…” settings being enabled. So, another workaround would be to just disable the “Remember tabs” checkboxes. But we’ll still get it fixed regardless.

Thanks again,

Doug

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