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IanB
New Member

Australia
8 Posts

Posted - Oct 03 2024 :  07:58:17 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
If I hit Ctrl+F and then type some text, the first character goes in the Find box but then focus is lost, and subsequent characters go in the file that is being edited.

I've had this issue since installing 2024.7. I've now downgraded back to 2024.6 and the issue has gone away.

Visual Studio 2022 v17.11.4

Edited by - IanB on Oct 03 2024 07:59:05 AM

feline
Whole Tomato Software

United Kingdom
19039 Posts

Posted - Oct 03 2024 :  08:29:00 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Unfortunately this is a bug in the latest version. I have put in an urgent bug report for this, since this really is getting in the way:

case=165029

For now, if you use Ctrl-Shift-F for the full Find dialog, rather than Ctrl-F for the Quick Find dialog, this avoids the problem. You do then need to change the find scope to the current document to get the same result, but it is a work around for now. Obviously going back to the previous version also works to fix this.

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feline
Whole Tomato Software

United Kingdom
19039 Posts

Posted - Oct 04 2024 :  12:13:19 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
For anyone else who runs into this, does turning Off:

VA Options -> Display -> Display VA Navigation Bar:

also fixes the problem for me. But obviously you loose the benefits of having this bar showing, including the Alt-M list.

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jschroedl
Tomato Guru

USA
107 Posts

Posted - Oct 09 2024 :  11:45:13 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Yeah, this needs a fix ASAP. Thanks for the partial workaround instead of disabling VA altogether.
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feline
Whole Tomato Software

United Kingdom
19039 Posts

Posted - Oct 09 2024 :  12:10:04 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
We are working on a fix, and are hoping to have an update with a fix out soon. I don't have an exact estimate yet, but as you are aware, this is very disruptive and thus urgent.

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jschroedl
Tomato Guru

USA
107 Posts

Posted - Oct 09 2024 :  1:13:04 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Unfortunately, the workaround of disabling the navigation bar did not work for me. Focus still leaves the Find edit field randomly even with it disabled.
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feline
Whole Tomato Software

United Kingdom
19039 Posts

Posted - Oct 10 2024 :  05:26:55 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
That is unexpected! How often / easily are you seeing this? It looks like I didn't run enough Find's, since I didn't see that happening during my testing.

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azur
Ketchup Master

Germany
59 Posts

Posted - Oct 10 2024 :  05:31:23 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by feline

That is unexpected! How often / easily are you seeing this? It looks like I didn't run enough Find's, since I didn't see that happening during my testing.


I have the same issue.
To me it looks like a timer is stealing the focus. Sometimes I can type multiple characters. Sometimes only one character.
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Johan
Starting Member

1 Posts

Posted - Oct 10 2024 :  06:02:39 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I got the navigation bar issue and disabled that but I still get the bug when I for example:
1. Select an inherited class in a .h-file.
2. Press Shift+Alt+G.
3. Press enter in the drop down to get to the .h file
4. Press Ctrl+f.
5. Start typing what to search for.
6. Notice that it automatically select the class name that it went to and your typing replaces it.
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feline
Whole Tomato Software

United Kingdom
19039 Posts

Posted - Oct 10 2024 :  08:06:06 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
So far I cannot reproduce the loss of focus from the CTRL-F dialog with the VA navigation bar turned Off. I have spent several minutes typing all sorts of things into the Find dialog, some valid, some invalid. Typing speed in the dialog doesn't seem to matter.

I have made a note on the case about this happening though. But it does concern me that there might be another factor at work I haven't yet found.

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azur
Ketchup Master

Germany
59 Posts

Posted - Oct 10 2024 :  08:30:03 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Here is a screenshot if the focus would be lost. Maybe you can see what you have to turn on to get the issue.

Currently I have downgrade to VA_X_Setup2530_0.exe.
We have the issue with VA_X_Setup2535_0.exe.



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feline
Whole Tomato Software

United Kingdom
19039 Posts

Posted - Oct 10 2024 :  11:03:25 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Thank you for the screen shot. For me, disabling the VA navigation bar is fixing the problem with the CTRL-F dialog. You still have the VA navigation bar enabled in this screen shot.

Hopefully we will have a fix soon.

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KRG
Senior Member

USA
35 Posts

Posted - Oct 14 2024 :  9:01:59 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Is there a reason that build 2024.5 is greyed out on the archive page? Do I need to roll back to 2024.4? Which iirc had other issues?
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feline
Whole Tomato Software

United Kingdom
19039 Posts

Posted - Oct 15 2024 :  04:59:12 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
2024.5 has a crash that effects some people. If you run into the crash, it can and does happen every few minutes, making it quite devastating. Having said that it only effected some people, other people never seemed to see the crash at all. But I believe this is why the download link was removed, since we don't want people downloading a version with a known crash bug.

Do you actually need to go to this version, and not a different one? VA 2530 avoids the CTRL-F focus bug, and is quite stable.

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KoenTanghe
Senior Member

Belgium
29 Posts

Posted - Oct 16 2024 :  11:00:05 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Running into this same bug here (VS2022 CE, with VA_X64.dll file version 10.9.2535.0 built 2024.09.30).
Very annoying indeed...
For me, disabling the VA navigation bar seems to work (I enabled the one from Visual Studio itself instead, so there is something at least for now).
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feline
Whole Tomato Software

United Kingdom
19039 Posts

Posted - Oct 16 2024 :  11:25:41 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Again apologies for this. We are working on a fix for this, but want the fix to be reliable, since this focus problem is showing up in several spots, although the CTRL-F dialog is definitely the most noticable.

Thank you for confirming that turning off the Navigation bar helped you. We have at least one report of this not helping, but so far I haven't been able to reproduce that particular result.

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Woody
Senior Member

Czech Republic
36 Posts

Posted - Oct 23 2024 :  10:46:47 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
It's already 20 days since this urgent bug has been reported. Do you have any release date for the fix? Could we get at least a beta build?
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KoenTanghe
Senior Member

Belgium
29 Posts

Posted - Oct 23 2024 :  1:15:43 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
@Woody Yes, it seems to be taking a bit of time, so I guess it's more complicated than we would think.
But in the meantime I also switched back to https://wholetomato.com/downloads/getBuild.asp?VA_X_Setup2530_0.exe (Visual Assist Build 2024.6) as some people above mentioned, and that one works fine.
Hope this helps for you too...
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Woody
Senior Member

Czech Republic
36 Posts

Posted - Oct 23 2024 :  5:51:48 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Ah, so it's the 2024.6. I was wondering which one is the build 2530_0, but the download page doesn't say. Only now I realized the file link is showing that if I hover mouse cursor over the 2024.6 label.
Thanks, it's working better with the VA Navigation Bar enabled. I'm still surprised the fix takes so long when it's clear that one of the changes between builds 2503_0 and 2535_0 is causing that.
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feline
Whole Tomato Software

United Kingdom
19039 Posts

Posted - Oct 24 2024 :  07:38:03 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I am asking for a beta release, and will let people know as soon as I get access to one that reliably fixes this problem.

The focus problem is actually showing up in several places, but obviously most clearly in the CTRL-F dialog. But it also shows up even when VA is disabled, so something strange is going on here.

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ge0rdi
New Member

6 Posts

Posted - Oct 28 2024 :  08:47:24 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
There was 2024.8 version released today and it fixes the problem.
Thank you very much.
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feline
Whole Tomato Software

United Kingdom
19039 Posts

Posted - Oct 28 2024 :  08:59:44 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I was just going to post this myself, thank you for letting everyone know . The release notes haven't been posted yet, but this is fixing all of the situations I know that had the focus problem, including the Solution Explorer window:

https://www.wholetomato.com/downloads

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jschroedl
Tomato Guru

USA
107 Posts

Posted - Oct 28 2024 :  10:04:45 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Excellent. It's fixed the issue for me.
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feline
Whole Tomato Software

United Kingdom
19039 Posts

Posted - Oct 28 2024 :  12:54:58 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Excellent news, thank you for the update. I did run quite a few tests myself, but since the problem was showing up in several different places, I did hope that we got them all.

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azur
Ketchup Master

Germany
59 Posts

Posted - Oct 29 2024 :  07:53:42 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by feline

I was just going to post this myself, thank you for letting everyone know . The release notes haven't been posted yet, but this is fixing all of the situations I know that had the focus problem, including the Solution Explorer window:

https://www.wholetomato.com/downloads


Can you please specify exactly which version should contain the fix? I followed the link and have now installed the following version: VA_X64.dll file version 10.9.2537.0 built 2024.10.27. This has not solved the problem for me.
Can you please note the name of the setup (like VA_X_Setup2451_0.exe)?

Edited by - azur on Oct 29 2024 07:55:02 AM
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Woody
Senior Member

Czech Republic
36 Posts

Posted - Oct 29 2024 :  08:03:30 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I installed VA_X_Setup2537_0.exe and it did solve the focus loosing issue in Ctrl+F searching
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KoenTanghe
Senior Member

Belgium
29 Posts

Posted - Oct 29 2024 :  08:09:21 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Just another data point: VA_X_Setup2537_0.exe solved the issue for me as well (Windows 10 Pro, Visual Studio 2022 CE (latest updates)).
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feline
Whole Tomato Software

United Kingdom
19039 Posts

Posted - Oct 29 2024 :  09:28:46 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Excellent, thank you both for the updates. I am hoping we have a solid and reliable fix here

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azur
Ketchup Master

Germany
59 Posts

Posted - Oct 29 2024 :  09:36:13 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
As you can see from my previous post, I had already installed 2537. I've done it again now and currently no problem. If the error occurs again, I'll let you know.
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DesertDragon
Junior Member

Russia
18 Posts

Posted - Oct 30 2024 :  8:43:20 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Just install 2537. Focus lost is solving. But the problem with blinking VA navigation bar is still here. Have to downgrade to 2530 again.
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feline
Whole Tomato Software

United Kingdom
19039 Posts

Posted - Oct 31 2024 :  08:33:04 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Do you have any sense of when / why this flashing is happening? We have had a couple of reports of this problem so far, but so far I haven't managed to reproduce the problem here, but I am looking into it.

I have opened a bug report for this, but until I can reproduce it, its going to be tricky to make a lot of progress:

case=165080

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Edited by - feline on Oct 31 2024 08:33:47 AM
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