[bug] regression - elements aren't outlined/highlighted (DFL-710)

[bug] regression - elements aren't outlined/highlighted (DFL-710)

For a long time, Opera has been failing to highlight/outline elements as i hover them or click them. Is anyone else seeing this issue?

I filed this back in July and haven't heard anything about it. Just wanted to make sure it's known and see if anyone else is experiencing it.

We couldn't reproduce it. Is there any specific steps you took to reproduce this, such as any customisations, or user.js, or only on specific pages or number of tabs?

I have no clue what it magically is. Disabled userjs and it's still doesn't work. I also created a new profile and loaded the userjs and that's not it.

EDIT: Its the skin. Changing to certain skins breaks dragonfly (my current skin). not good. I've added that information to the ticket. Changing skins shouldn't break the developer tools. This is a regression, because it worked early in the life of df but at some point started relying on the skin.

I'm suspecting this will not be an issue now as we have a native highlight via Scope from Presto 2.3 onwards, so the skin shouldn't affect the highlight. If it is an easy fix then we may be able to look into it for 2.2 based Dragonfly, but that hasn't been under development for a while as We've been hard at work on 2.3 and 2.4 and beyond.

Same problem here, using <a href="http://my.opera.com/community/customize/skins/info/?id=6130">Clarity</a> Skin.

New version didn't solves the problem

Opera Dragonfly Version: 0.7 alpha-4
Revision Number: 1117:bfc78259ec06, protocol-4

It's unlikely to be fixed for core 2.2 (Peregrine) I guess.

But it can be fixed by skin author easily.

Just have to include this in skin.ini:

[Active Element Inside image]
Type = BoxTile
Corner bottomleft = a/bottomleft.png
Corner bottomright = a/bottomright.png
Corner topleft = a/topleft.png
Corner topright = a/topright.png
Padding Bottom = 2
Padding Left = 2
Padding Right = 2
Padding Top = 2
Spacing = 2
Tile Bottom = a/bottom.png
Tile Left = a/left.png
Tile Right = a/right.png
Tile Top = a/top.png
Colorize = 0

[Active Element inside]
Clone = Active Element Inside image
Tile Center = a/center.png
Colorize = 0

[Active Element Inside Inverse]
Type = BoxTile
Corner bottomleft = a/bottomleft_inverse.png
Corner bottomright = a/bottomright_inverse.png
Corner topleft = a/topleft_inverse.png
Corner topright = a/topright_inverse.png
Colorize = 0

[Active Element Outside]
Clone = Active Element Inside
Corner bottomleft = a/center_outside.png
Corner bottomright = a/center_outside.png
Corner topleft = a/center_outside.png
Corner topright = a/center_outside.png
Tile Bottom = a/center_outside.png
Tile Center = a/center_outside.png
Tile Left = a/center_outside.png
Tile Right = a/center_outside.png
Tile Top = a/center_outside.png
Colorize = 0

and copy "a" directory from standard skin (or make own graphics).

Lacking these sections is IMO a bug in a skin because without it users still get focus outline (not i DF though) but uglier.

Originally posted by d.i.z.:

But it can be fixed by skin author easily.

I fix it myself and
Thank you d.i.z.!

Two small OT question...
- isn't there a fallback to the default skin?
- is there a way to use unpacked skins?

Originally posted by DoubleT:

- isn't there a fallback to the default skin?

I suppose skin author can decide if he wants to use fallback or not. Maybe some don't want to.

Originally posted by DoubleT:

- is there a way to use unpacked skins?

Yes, set the path to skin.ini in opera:config#UserPrefs|ButtonSet
Path has to be in filesystem format (C:\skin\...) and not URI (file://localhost/...).

Then you can also set up keyboard shortcut or toolbar button that will reload changes in skin without having to restart Opera. Use Reload skin command.

Originally posted by d.i.z.:

It's unlikely to be fixed for core 2.2

Why are we still on core 2.2.. jeez.

Originally posted by d.i.z.:

I suppose skin author can decide if he wants to use fallback or not. Maybe some don't want to.

Ok, found the problem in Clarity -> 'Fallback background = 0'
Enabling this option will bring other (native) skin problems back, but know i can work on them!

Originally posted by d.i.z.:

Yes, set the path to skin.ini in opera:config#UserPrefs|ButtonSet

Ahh, that's the trick, I only tried opera:config#UserPrefs|SkinDirectory.

Now i can easy complete/merge the skin.
Thank you again!

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