Windows 11 / Tabbed Explorer Support

[jameslashmar]

On Win 11 22621.160 (beta) after enabling tabbed explorer via (https://pureinfotech.com/enable-tabs-file-explorer-windows-11/). QuickLook works fine initially, but gets a little confused.

So if I have a few explorer tabs open and hit space to preview a file, QuickLook try to preview another file from another tab. The only way to fix this is to close explorer and reopen it, which at the minute, there is no option to re-open last tabs.

I understand this is not working on technically an unrealised OS, but I LOVE QuickLook and I think this is worth investigating for when tabbed explorer windows are public.

I've tried going to the previous tab and de-selecting the item that is wrongly being quicklooked and also moving the windows tabs around but neither fixes it.

Thanks

[elliotmarks06]

Same thing happening to me. Took me a while to realize that it was previewing a file from another tab, as for a bit it just seemed completely ramdom!

[ashergz]

So I see this has been up for a while and you're aware of it. Do you plan on adding support?

[SubhoBoy]

One thing I noticed was that QuickLook tries to preview the last selected item, whichever tab it may be in. So if you make sure to deselect all selected items when you switch to another tab, the app should work fine.

Of course, this is just a crude workaround. If you close a tab before deselecting all items in it, QuickLook seems to break until you reopen the window.

[elliotmarks06]

Yeah, the unselecting trick doesn't ALWAYS work for me... I've found that sometimes, instead of switching the preview over, it just shows the preview of the whole second tab folder.

[xupefei]

I think you should ping Microsoft to fix their problem. IMO this issue is caused by the wrong window focus for grouped windows.
QL always gets the selected file in the top-most window, I believe the Tab feature just broke that behavior.

[jameslashmar]

I'm happy to do this, but surely it is in your interest for your app to work? Also I'm just a user and don't know the specifics of what to report to them or where to report it. If you start the thread, I'm happy to post and confirm that I'm also receiving the issue.

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[Ryo-Sajima]

With the official release of Windows 11 22H2, some machines have the file explorer tab feature enabled by default. This issue should be fixed as soon as possible.

[xupefei]

I need to update my machine to 22H2 and then start looking at this.
I'll see if I can find some time this weekend.

[xupefei]

Update: I know why it doesn't work and figured out a fix. Will try it out over the weekend.

[xupefei]

Fixed in https://github.com/QL-Win/QuickLook/releases/tag/3.7.2.
Enjoy :)

[GuoJikun]

@xupefei Can you tell me the fixed commit link or pr link?