Formatting text with e.g.ctrl-i "fades" properties-area

[paulkater]

I selected a bit of text:

The properties area is normal, with character info, revisions etc:

I press ctrl-i to italicise the text:

In the properties area the notes/references info vanishes

Also the character properties are 'faded':

Typing a letter or simply pressing ENTER/RETURN will immediately restore the properties area to its normal values/view.

This happens with CTRL-I, CTRL-B, CTRL-+ and CTRL-- as far as I have seen. Selecting the formatting from the menu and applying it that way doesn't change the view of the properties area.

CTRL-D and CTRL-SHIFT-C, and also CTRL-ALT-x for Headers do not have this effect.

OS: Ubuntu 22.04 Manuskript: 0.14.

[TheJackiMonster]

I can reproduce that. Looks rather inconsistent in handling those changes to the text. I might look into it.

[TheJackiMonster]

I'm sorry but unfortunately while I can reproduce it, I have no idea how to fix it because this seems to be caused by some delayed event logic which I'm not seem to be able to find in the code (it's a mess...). ^^'

So I'm putting this issue in the "future" queue. This might sound frustrating but at least I am sure we will try to avoid a bug like this in the current efforts refactoring Manuskript with GTK. That means even though I'm not sure how to fix it in the current code base, we might solve this issue in the future anyway. I'll keep it open until we have a release fixing this.

[paulkater]

Thanks for having a look at it. And good luck cleaning up the code; I know how bad a pot of spaghetti some people can make it.