Selected WU is greyed out when queue list does not have focus in default theme.

[jcoffland]

Trac	Data
Ticket	777
Reported by	@bb30994
Status	accepted
Component	FAHControl
Priority	7 (minor)

Selecting a Slot needs to hilight the corresponding WU below it. With the alternating colors (green, in this case) it's not immediately clear which WU corresponds to which Slot (though that information is available elsewhere).

[jcoffland]

Comment by @jcoffland I see what you mean. However, it's not something I can easily change.

It may not be obvious but you can tell which WU is highlighted. It's the one that is greyed out. The problem is that the highlighted list row is greyed out when the list does not have focus. I cannot change this behavior. Also, I cannot modify the default theme as this is up to the OS. That means to do anything about it would mean I would have to resort to some sort of trickery or to a different GUI design.

One possible solution would be to combine the Work Queue and Work Unit views and use expanders or a tree instead of a list. In fact it might not be a bad idea to just combine the Folding Slots, Work Queue and Work Unit views all in to one tree. Obviously this is not a small change.

[jcoffland]

Comment by @bb30994 When the screen DOES have focus, it's obvious which slot is hilighted (blue) but hilight should also be blue in the list of WUs.

[jcoffland]

Comment by @bb30994 I think it's worth the effort to make it into a single indented list, but as you say, it's not a small change. There would be a RUNNING WU indented under each active slot. When a new WU is downloaded at 99% there would be a second WU under the same slot (Currently that relatiouship isn't easy to discern.) In active slots might contain an idle WU under them.

I'm not sure what you want to do with WUs that are queued for upload since they're probably no longer associated with a specific slot.

It does clarify which Slot/WU you can Right-Click to Pause/Fold/Finish when you don't want to use the (all) buttons at the top.