Looks great to me : )  Nice work, Dan!

Cheers,
Kevin


> On Jul 25, 2017, at 7:34 PM, Dan Wilcox <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Ok, how's this? https://youtu.be/2hL1brds1XA <https://youtu.be/2hL1brds1XA> :)
> 
> The relevant PR is https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/pull/143 
> <https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/pull/143>
> 
>> On Jul 24, 2017, at 9:46 PM, Dan Wilcox <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> Well, you are right in pointing out how Finder handles things. I have some 
>> changes which are *almost* there...
>> 
>>> On Jul 24, 2017, at 8:42 PM, Kevin Haywood <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Ah, I see - these are features then, not bugs!  My apologies for the noise 
>>> - I wasn’t monitoring the dev list before, and didn’t know about the 
>>> existing discussions : )
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Kevin
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Jul 24, 2017, at 9:29 AM, Dan Wilcox <[email protected] 
>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Ok, what's funny is that both of these points are things that people 
>>>> *wanted* in feedback from the first test release. I'm not sure if I'm able 
>>>> to spend another day tracking down too many details...but here we go.
>>>> 
>>>>>>> Thirdly, the Help Browser behaves unusually in multiple ways: first of 
>>>>>>> all, it starts off with the top item double-selected (both blue 
>>>>>>> highlight and dotted border to the blue highlight), but despite the 
>>>>>>> double duty, you still have to click to select that item again in order 
>>>>>>> to get the next column to show up.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> That's normal and was the previous behavior. Hit enter or click.
>>>>> 
>>>>> In macOS 0.47-1 64-bit, there’s nothing that gets selected automatically 
>>>>> when opening the Help Browser.  When I do click to select something, I 
>>>>> don’t get the black dotted border on the blue highlight.
>>>> 
>>>> From feedback 
>>>> (https://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2017-07/119363.html 
>>>> <https://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2017-07/119363.html>):
>>>> 
>>>> - The first item that appears when entering a new directory for the first
>>>> time is selected with a squared box, but it's not selected in blue, which
>>>> is confusing because selection actually does takes place (i.e., if the item
>>>> is not a directory, hitting the 'right' arrow will open it)
>>>> 
>>>> The black box is the keyboard focus highlight while the blue background is 
>>>> the listbox active item. From this feedback I connected them. I'm guess 
>>>> you prefer them not to be connected?
>>>> 
>>>> One issue is that on some versions of TK it seems as though that black box 
>>>> is not displayed, so if you use the keyboard, you have no way of knowing 
>>>> where you are, hence selection highlight follows keyboard.
>>>> 
>>>>>>> If you use the keyboard arrow keys to navigate the Help Browser, and 
>>>>>>> have navigated to at least the second column, if you use the left-arrow 
>>>>>>> to navigate back one column, then use the up- or down-arrow keys to 
>>>>>>> browse the items in the current column, the right-most column doesn’t 
>>>>>>> update its contents, instead retaining the contents it had previously, 
>>>>>>> creating a visual mismatch, as seen in the screenshot.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> That's also normal / previous behavior. Click or hit the right button to 
>>>>>> update. If the browser updates whenever you navigate it goes a bit crazy 
>>>>>> visually.
>>>>> 
>>>>> This is also not previous behavior for me: in macOS 0.47-1 64-bit, 
>>>>> whichever column is to the right of the current selection always reflects 
>>>>> the contents of the current selection (mimicking the behavior of the 
>>>>> macOS Finder, as one example).
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> It is previous behavior if you only click with the mouse and Pd 0.47 works 
>>>> the same (I just downloaded it to make sure). Pd 0.47 doesn't have the 
>>>> browser keyboard update and as soon as you start using the keyboard, yes 
>>>> things can perhaps be out of sync if you're expectation is as you've 
>>>> stated. Is this what you are referring to?
>>>> 
>>>> This is again related to showing where the keyboard focus is. I will see 
>>>> if there is a happy medium...
>> 
>> --------
>> Dan Wilcox
>> @danomatika <http://twitter.com/danomatika>
>> danomatika.com <http://danomatika.com/>
>> robotcowboy.com <http://robotcowboy.com/>
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
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> Dan Wilcox
> @danomatika <http://twitter.com/danomatika>
> danomatika.com <http://danomatika.com/>
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> 
> 
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