Loading dialog takes over mouse position on Windows with Auto Move option on

[datvm]

Details for the issue

What did you do?

On Windows, we have this useful option that move the mouse to a dialog button:

However, with (not too) recent update, whenever I browse a column with a foreign key, DB would try to load the data of that table to make it into a select combo-box. That's fine by me although I am not using that feature but during the loading, a dialog box is shown and so my mouse is moved there, which is quite disruptive.

What did you expect to see?

The dialog should not show up, or should not have any button. I think there should be an option to either disable the loading dialog, or at least disable the feature completely if I do not need it.

What did you see instead?

My mouse is moved to an invisible button (maybe because I can never see it, it's too quickly).

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What operating system are you using?

• Windows: ( version: 10 )
• Linux: ( distro: ___ )
• macOS: ( version: ___ )
• Other: ___

What is your DB4S version?

• 3.12.0
• 3.11.x
• Other: 3.12.99 (Aug 25 2020 nightly build) but can confirm it happens since the latest stable build.

Did you also

• Try out the latest nightly version: https://github.com/sqlitebrowser/sqlitebrowser#nightly-builds
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[chrisjlocke]

I believe the dialog is a 'please wait while data is being loaded' alert. I believe it may have a cancel button, which may be throwing off your mouse 'ping to a button' feature...
If you do load a large table, that dialog would need to pop up, so it would be hard to disable it completely. We could wrap some 'if we've only taken a second, don't show the dialog, but its been three seconds now, so lets pop up a dialog' but that could be a fair bit of code, compared to the 'quick-n-dirty' way we're using at the moment....

[datvm]

Thanks for the response!

In WinForm/WPF, we could set the button as non-primary (i.e not default button). The mouse cursor wouldn't be moved if it is so. Is it possible for Qt? Or can I disable the whole feature?

[mgrojo]

We are using QProgressDialog. I've tried to set a cancel button without the default and autoDefault properties but I've seen no difference in Linux. It still looks as a default button and pressing Space bar cancels the progress, so maybe the dialog is forcing the property. Should I commit it nevertheless to try it in Windows?

[justinclift]

Should I commit it nevertheless to try it in Windows?

Might as well try it. 😄

[mgrojo]

Confirmed as working in PR #2386.