Sync into RAR: focus lost, file list lost

[ghisler(Author)]

A beep is played when the progress dialog is removed while Total Commander does not have the focus. This is done to remind the user that the file operation has finished, while he is working in some other program. Apparently you get the beep too when the focus was lost for some other reason. I think that I can leave it that way.

I could not reproduce a single focus loss here. Maybe some other program is stealing the focus on your system?

[StatusQuo]

- The beep is not a big problem for me, my speakers have a switch.

- The file list does not get lost anymore on any of the tested systems, I consider this fixed.

But:
- The loss of focus seems to depend on luck - sometimes it works OK, sometimes not.

First the PC I tested yesterday (2.4 GHz P4) was working fine, after some testing the focus was lost almost every time.
Then I restored the whole system from an image (back to the old state) - still the focus was lost there nearly 100%.

On my "slow" 550MHz machine it is lost only about 10%,
whereas on another 2.4 GHz P4 (with minimum software installation) the focus is lost about 80% of the tries.

15.05.07 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Focus loss when using external packer (WinXP only)

Not only WinXP, every tested machine here is running W2k SP4.

[ghisler(Author)]

Well, it seems that my 866MHz machine is just too slow to reproduce this error.

[petermad]

I was to hasty saying that the lost focus problem is fixed.

It seems to be fixed in synchronize dirs, when when the copy direction is removed for one or more of the files (e.g. TC will find some files whwn recomparing after the synchronization).

If all files are being synchronized however, then TC still looses focus to the now empty synch list after the packer is closed.

I am using a 3.0 GHz computer.

[StatusQuo]

If all files are being synchronized however, then TC still looses focus to the now empty synch list after the packer is closed.

Today (!?) this is reproduceable on all PCs here, including the slow one.
I'll keep an eye on this...

[ghisler(Author)]

I don't think that I can do anything about it, so I have to move it to the problems which cannot be changed, sorry.