Unexpected navigation event when some pane switches

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
cpp
Domain
desktop, reverse-engineering

Research direction

Start by reproducing the issue from build 4728: split to a new pane, select the byte overview, type browser, strings, and triage views, and observe navigation history. Check whether each view creates an extra navigation event or moves to an unexpected location. Done means pane switching does not add unintended events and ESC consistently returns to the previous location.

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Description

Component: UI Effort: Low Impact: Low

builds 4728

This might be a duplicate but just documenting some details here for now.

When splitting to a new pane and then selecting a new view in that pane, extra navigation events are made.

Guilty views:

  • byte overview
  • type browser (sometimes? Can't reproduce consisently)
  • strings view (navigates to the first string in the view)
  • triage view (goes to entry point)

Worse, some of those views create navigation events so you can use ESC to back up to the previous location they don't work at all.

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