Thanks James W. The video taught me two things about the file/image
import issue (and thus,
- I have a workaround suggestion for the file import issue …
- The bug is, to a certain degreee, present in OSX El Capitan too.
The El Capitan bug first:
Viewing the video, my first thought was to suggest that you probably
could work around the problem by using keyboard navigation rather than
the mouse.
That is (taking the Import Graphich dialog as example): If you first
enable Full Keyboard Access in the Keyboard preferences of the System
panel of OSX/macOS, you ought to become able to perform all the actions
(that the dialog window allows you to perform) via the keyboard.
For instance: Having selected the graphic to be imported, you can press
the Tab/Tabulator key in order to jump to Pass-through. And if, having
jumped ot Pass-through, you want to activate “pass-through”, you ought
to be be able to do so by pressing the Spacebar key.
However, it did not work, at least not in El Capitan (you could try if
it works in macOS). Firstly, when I press the Tabulator key, then
(and this is just like in your videow) a new check box pops up, above
the Pass-through check box. This new check box sometimes appears
nameless, but in certain cases/positions, it is evident that it is
called «Show preview». At any rate: this new checkbox is impossible to
activate whether via mouse or keyboard.
Secondly, when trying to activate a selected checkbox by way of
pressing the Spacebar, then nothing happens. And there are also other
aspects of keyboard navigation for the image import dialog window that
is buggy (such as the fact that is is impossible, via the keyboard, to
select and change the Alt text - when I try that, the keyboard focus is
instead moved to the list of files - and I may end up selecting another
graphic file).
Fortunately, in El Capitan one can still use the mouse. And so, from
that angle there is no bug.
Conclusion: In El Capitan, using the mouse is, if you will, the
workaround for this bug.
A Possible Workaround:
Your video demonstrates that you always left your import dialog in the
same state. We can say that you always left the dialog in its default
state.
What do I mean by that? Well, you never pressed any of the buttons at
the top bar of the window: You did not touch the button consisting of 3
“sub buttons” by which you can can choose to display the files as
Icons, or as in a List, or as in Columns. Also, you did not touch the
Arrange button to the right of the 3 state button.
Let me then immediately say that if you select “Columns”, then you get
an obligatory preview of the graphic, so to speak, for free. So in
that position, the “Show preview” button is - I presume - useless, and
perhaps this is part of why this works better:
At least, on my Retina based El Capitaton running mac, once I do select
the “Columns” button, then it then becomes possible to use keyboard
navigation. Actually, there is still a bug - pressing the Spacebar key
does not have the effect of toggelling the the enabled/disabled status
of the Pass-through checkbox. But at the very least, when - by way of
the Tabulator key - activating/selecting the Alt text field, I am able
to edit the Alt text.
(By contrast, when I leave the dialogue window in its default state,
then, tabulating to the Alt text field and trying to edit it, I am not
allowed to edit - instead, as I type, the letters I type causes a file,
beginning with the letter that I type, i selected in the file list. The
only workaround is if there is only a single file in the folder where I
try to import the file from.)
Btw, clicking the the Arrange button an, for example, selecting to
arrange, e.g. according to Kind, does seem to have same effect.
Conclusion: I suggest that you try to experiement and test whether
clicking the 3-state-button and the Arrange button might have positive
effects.
Leif Halvard Silli
On 26 Oct 2016, at 5:16, JDW wrote:
I grew weary of waiting for everyone else to update to Sierra and test
so I installed Sierra (latest version as of today) on an external HDD
and tested. Here’s my screencast with no sound, showing the problems
in the lower left corner of the Save As and Import dialogs:
Freeway UI Glitches under MacOS Sierra 10.11.6 - YouTube
Stretching the Import Dialog horizontally brings the hidden text into
view. But there is no simple fix for the missing text in the Save As
dialog.
And although I had my 5K iMac’s display set to 1920x1080 to make that
video, I changed it back to the 5K default and tested again to see the
exact same problems in those two dialogs. I didn’t see any other
major problems though.
I hope this helps others,
James Wages
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