Re: FileView.doesn't update on Dir-Change when View=Normal

[Benoît Minisini <benoit.minisini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 23/01/2026 à 02:55, Claus Dietrich a écrit :
> Am 22.01.26 um 22:08 schrieb Benoît Minisini:
> > Le 22/01/2026 à 19:21, Claus Dietrich a écrit :
> > > I just reviewed a request in the German Gambas-Club and could confirm 
> > > that
> > >
> > >
> > > FileView1.View = FileView.Detailed
> > >
> > > FileView1.Dir =<dir>
> > >
> > >
> > > updates the contents of the FileView when I change the directory. But 
> > > when I use
> > >
> > >
> > > FileView1.View = FileView.Normal
> > >
> > > FileView1.Dir =<dir>
> > >
> > >
> > > the FileView does not update its contents. Is that the expected 
> > > behaviour?
> > >
> > > In this case the following helps:
> > >
> > >
> > > FileView1.View = FileView.Normal
> > >
> > > FileView1.Current = "*"
> > >
> > > FileView1.Dir =<dir>
> > >
> > >
> > > Best regards
> > >
> > > Claus
> >
> > If you have made a little project to check the bug, can you send it? 
> > Otherwise can you make some?
>
> Of course. Here you are. It took me some time because the behavior of 
> the FileView (no matter whether GTK+3 or QT5) is hard to control resp. 
> to predict.
>
> When I start the program, the FileView is in FileView.Normal - mode. 
> When I click on the buttons to change the directory, the FileView 
> doesn't update.
>
> When I activate the FileView.Detailed - mode with the checkbox and click 
> on the buttons to change the directory, the FileView updates.
>
> When I reactivate the FileView.Normal - mode by unchecking the 
> checkbox and click on the buttons to change the directory, the FileView 
> updates.
>
> What I found even more weird:
>
> When I add a second FileView and set FileView2.View = FileView.Detailed, 
> the first one also updates at any time in FileView.Normal - mode.
>
> Hope that it does the same on your platform.
>
> Best regards
>
> Claus

This should have been fixed in the last commit.

Regards,

--
Benoît Minisini.