Horizontal scrolling bug in tree views

[dunx]

OS X 10.4.3
Scrivener 0.1.2b

I am seeing a very strange bit of horizontal scrolling behaviour in the tree views for Binder and Compose mode. It's provoked by a bit of weird interaction with drag and drop. The effect is to have a tree view which is blank and cannot be recovered. Closing the project and reopening clears the problem.

To reproduce:

1. open your project and go into Binder mode.

2. select an item in the Draft tree.

3. pick up and drag the item to the right, as if you are going to pull it to the title bar for the document window. However, hover the item near the right hand edge of the tree panel. The tree panel will scroll to the right. Drop the item.

4. note that there is no horizontal scroll bar. You should be able to pick up an item and may be able to scroll the tree panel back the left, but this is intermittent.

As I say, the only way to recover is to close and reopen the project.

[KB]

This is a well-known bug. Basically, in the last version there was a(n Apple) bug whereby if you created or renamed a document, the column would for no good reason shorten in width so that the document titles would get truncated. I (experimentally) tried to fix this by making the columns a lot wider than they needed to be - hence the behaviour you are seeing. This is on my list of things that I need to find a better fix for. If you're on a new i/powerBook (or using iScroll on an old one), you can always use two-finger scrolling to fix it. Otherwise you need to close and reopen the project.

It will be fixed before release (somehow - like I say, the original bug was an Apple one).

Thanks,
Keith

[dunx]

Thanks for the workaround. Didn't realise it had already been reported.