File Editor Save Behavior

I'm not sure if this recently changed or I just now noticed it, but there is some odd behavior around saving a file when a file that starts with the same letter already exists in the directory. It will bring up a guess in case you want to save as the same file name, which requires you to click back into the filename field to keep typing. The next letter pressed does the same thing. So if you have a file that is named TEST and you wanted to type out TEST2, you would have to click back in the field after each letter.

Also, during this time, the save dialog loses keyboard focus, so pressing up or down on the keyboard jogs the axis. I dont think that would be the intent?

Lastly, I don't want to speak for everyone, but I would find it convenient if I was editing an already opened file, when I clicked Save if that file name was pre-populated. I could easily tack on a _1 or whatever if I wanted, or simply save over the file without any further clicking or typing. Just a suggestion.

cmorley wrote:

looked into this - another keybindings problem.

try this in the handler file:
It seems to work but i haven't tested everything.
Trying to find something better.

        if event.isAutoRepeat():return True
        # This part is new:
        if receiver2 == None:
            if isinstance(receiver2,receiver,QtWidgets.QListView:
                receiver.keyPressEvent(event)
                event.accept()
                return True

Thanks!

That does work (missing a ) after QListView). Only thing I see is it will not auto repeat once the "guess" drop down pops up. I would think you'd only see that if you held backspace to delete out everything you added in.

We have quite a bit of work around in that section for keyboard jogging. I have not tested whether or not the above code affects any of that.

EDIT: It does break keyboard jogging for us. If there's no other solution, Maybe I'll see if Phill can take a look. One suggestion would be to just remove the drop down where it guesses the name of the file you're typing?

To follow up on this, Phill had me add this:

in our section of:
It fixed the problem, and holding back space works to clear out the entire area, regardless of if the guess drop down is displayed or not.

Hopefully that helps you in some way.

-Greg