White "Focus" Box Album Art + Details

[wdpaynter]

In AA + Details, I've Noticed a white box around any column that is selected. Is this necessary? I do not believe this is present in previous versions. It especially looks bad when focus is on album art column.

Also, focus is set to first track of first album when artist is selected from tree, but first track is highlighted (in blue). I do not believe this was the case before even though focus was on that track, it was not highlighted. Also, in Album Art view (No details) first track is selected and shows as "1 Track selected" when artist is chosen in tree. This does not look good either when only browsing artists.

Not sure if these are intended changes, but the white box thing is especially unappealing.

Hope my explanation(s) are clear.
Thanks
Bill P.

[PetrCBR]

I don't know about any 'white' box around column. Can you post here any screenshot ?

[wdpaynter]

I am not sure how to take and post a screen shot. If you can let me know, I will.

The box looks like a dashed line around whichever item you have selected in the column.
Thanks
Bill P.

[Dreadlau]

1. Look at your keyboard.
2. Find the Print Screen button (It may be abbreviated to PRNT SCRN or PrtSc or anything like that) and press it
3. Go to start -> programs -> accessories, and open MSPaint.
4. Click edit on the toolbar in Paint, and point your mouse to PASTE. You should now have what you want in the box in Paint.
5. Save the printscreened material to a location where you can find it (your desktop).
6. Upload it, for example, toImageshack.
7. Paste the url they'll give you in your post.
8.You can use the preview button to verify if it worked.

[PetrCBR]

I am not sure how to take and post a screen shot. If you can let me know, I will.

The box looks like a dashed line around whichever item you have selected in the column.
Thanks
Bill P.

And isn't it classic focus selection ? Same as in details view ?

[wdpaynter]

Thanks, Here is the link:

Notice that I have simply selected an artist in the tree to left, but the first song of the first album is pre-selected (highlighted blue) and there is the white dotted-line box I am talking about. This is not present in my other versions of MM.

Also, when I click on a title (or any column) the "white box" is around that text as well. Please see this second screen shot:


Please let me know what you think, maybe I'm doing something wrong and/or I have a setting off.
Thanks
Bill P.

[wdpaynter]

I forgot about Album Art View. Here is an image of this instance:

I have done the same here, clicking on an artist on the right only. Notice that it shows that (1) track is selected even though I've yet to select any tracks.

Thanks
Bill P.

[wdpaynter]

And isn't it classic focus selection ? Same as in details view ?

I am not sure how to take and post a screen shot. If you can let me know, I will.

The box looks like a dashed line around whichever item you have selected in the column.
Thanks
Bill P.

And isn't it classic focus selection ? Same as in details view ?

I'm not sure what you mean, but it does seem like a classic "focus" item used by many other programs. Maybe a regression??

[PetrCBR]

That's classic focus rectangle and it isn't a regression. Using keyboard UP/DOWN In AA view + details you can move by albums (in case cover or Artist/Album column is focused) or by tracks. Second reason is that in AA view now you can use SPACE to select album/track (with CTRL key).
For these reasons focus selection must be visible to know what column/track is just focused.

[wdpaynter]

I see. That's a shame as it is cosmetically displeasing. There should be a way to not have the focus show while only selecting the artist from the tree until the user clicks (or tabs) on any column in the main window.. In these examples I have yet to click on any column in the main window.

It seems that in all previous versions of MM you could arrow down through albums, just not through tracks on an album. Is there any work around or way of tweaking this? Maybe allowing for this to be turned on/off as an option.

Please let me know.
Thanks
Bill P.

[wdpaynter]

Another problem with this is that I keep my albums within an artist sorted by year (newest first), but when i click on an artist in the tree the focus causes the first album alphabetically to take focus even though the albums are sorted by date. It should show top of the sorted column with the newest album. This defeats the purpose of sorting by column as you will now need to scroll up every artist.

Please let me know if you understand what I mean.
Thanks
Bill P.

[PetrCBR]

Another problem with this is that I keep my albums within an artist sorted by year (newest first), but when i click on an artist in the tree the focus causes the first album alphabetically to take focus even though the albums are sorted by date. It should show top of the sorted column with the newest album. This defeats the purpose of sorting by column as you will now need to scroll up every artist.

Please let me know if you understand what I mean.
Thanks
Bill P.

Yes i know what do you mean. Will fix it for next build.

[wdpaynter]

Cool, Thanx

[MetalFrog]

Another problem with this is that I keep my albums within an artist sorted by year (newest first), but when i click on an artist in the tree the focus causes the first album alphabetically to take focus even though the albums are sorted by date. It should show top of the sorted column with the newest album. This defeats the purpose of sorting by column as you will now need to scroll up every artist.

Please let me know if you understand what I mean.
Thanks
Bill P.

Oh wow. I've been having this problem, I just didn't know how to articulate it into a bug report, because I wasn't sure what was causing it. I sort by year as well, and when I choose a new artist, it jumps down part way through the list. This makes a world of sense now.

Glad to see it's already set to be fixed.

[wdpaynter]

Yeah, sometimes it takes a little diggin' and playing around to figure things out (at least for me).

It's also nice that there is this forum, thanks to people like PetrCBR, Lowlander, nohitter, & many others, I've been able to have questions answered and figure out how some things work.

Happy Monkeying!
Bill P.