Problem selecting and editing an entry in a Music Collection

[Robby Stephenson]

Thanks, captured in https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=480297

On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 8:31 AM Peter Mayes <peter at petermayes.org> wrote:

> Within a few minutes of posting the issue below, I have found something
> that triggers the behaviour.
>
> When I fire up tellico, the left hand panel displays "Artist" (I think
> this field is remembered from the previous run).
>
> If I expand a few of the "Artists" and select several discs, the bottom
> right correctly displays the chosen disc.
>
> If I now use the pull-down to the left of the "Filter here..." box to
> select another field to display on the left, e.g. "Label", expand a few
> of the "Labels", and then try to select discs, the bottom right is NOT
> updated, and I can end up editing the wrong disc.
>
> Hope this is more helpful.
>
> Best wishes -- Peter
> --
>
> On 16/01/2024 13:18, Peter Mayes wrote:
> > This refers to tellico-3.5.1 under Fedora38 Linux.
> >
> > This is a slightly strange one. I thought that this was a completely
> > reproducible situation, relating to my Music collection of ~1,500 CDs.
> > Indeed, it was completely reproducible earlier today. But having shut
> > down tellico and restarted it, I can't now get it to happen. It
> > definitely does happen, as it has been driving me slightly crazy over
> > recent days, but clearly there is some sort of trigger that I haven't
> > yet pinned down.
> >
> > I know when it is going to happen, as it is when I select a disc from
> > the left hand panel, and the bottom right doesn't update to show the
> > selected disc as in 4 below
> >
> > Let me know if this isn't helpful as it stands, and I will continue to
> > investigate.
> >
> > 1. Edit an entry
> > 2. "Save Entry", "Close", "Save"
> > 3. From the left-hand panel, select another entry to edit
> > 4. The entry does NOT show up in the bottom right panel. The previous
> > entry is still displayed.
> > 5. Attempt to edit the new selection from step 3, ignoring 4 above
> > 6. The previously edited disc is opened for editing again
> > 7. Close this wrong disc.
> > 8. Select any entry from the top right panel
> > 9. Now reselect the entry I want to edit from step 3.
> > 10. The correct entry is now opened for editing
> >
> > This has nearly caught me out on a number of occasions!
> >
> --
> Best wishes -- Peter
> --
> Peter Mayes
> 07460 890503
>
>
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