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#1025 Hiding the Contents pane by double-clicking the vertical separator

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nobody
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2015-09-03
2015-04-04
sf221sf221
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This action permanently disrupts the horizontal sizing of the remaining window elements. Only tested on OS X 10.8.5 and only with animations enabled.

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  • Christiaan Hofman

    • status: unread --> open-works-for-me
    • Priority: 5 --> 3
     
  • Christiaan Hofman

    What do you mean? I see nothing wrong.

     
  • sf221sf221

    sf221sf221 - 2015-04-04

    The display width variation happens regardless of the action used to toggle the Contents pane (double-click separator, menu command, and toolbar button). Toggling the Notes pane is fine. This glitch is also independent of Automatically Resize setting, and the Always Show Scrollbars system setting on my system.

     
  • sf221sf221

    sf221sf221 - 2015-04-04

    Hide/show Contents pane glitches width whether Notes pane is visible or not.

     
  • Christiaan Hofman

    Are you sure this is how you got this? This makes absolutely no sense to me, as we don't even do anything with the containing view. So how could it ever shrink?

     
  • sf221sf221

    sf221sf221 - 2015-04-04

    Do you really expect me to speculate about your code? I assume that's rhetorical.

    Here's more info: I deleted net.sourceforge.skim-app.skim.plist and was still able to reproduce the glitch by repeated toggling Cmd-Shift-T. Do you have a Mountain Lion system to test with?

     
  • Christiaan Hofman

    Yes, it's rhetorical. It absolutely makes no sense to me. Also as nobody has seen this yet. Perhaps you hit this multiple times in short succession? That can be a problem, Apple's animation are pretty sensitive to this, without them offering any way to avoid problems with it.

    Unfortunately, I don't have a ML system to test this myself.

     
  • sf221sf221

    sf221sf221 - 2015-04-04

    The delay between toggles has no influence. Considering I just reproduced the glitch on a different computer (MacBookPro) running a clean version of ML 10.8.5, I would bet that others have seen this before and simply not reported it.

     
  • Christiaan Hofman

    I see no way to ever fix this. This should be impossible, therefore it must be a system bug. And as I have no access to this system I won;t ever be able to fix it.

    You can only work around it by disabling animations. This can be done through a hidden preference. This is described on the Wiki.

     
  • Christiaan Hofman

    • status: open-works-for-me --> closed-works-for-me
     

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