Sometimes selecting a filter doesn't work

What is your operating system? Windows 10
What is your Shotcut version? 25.05 but the issue is also on older versions

Anyone else experience this issue ?

Sometimes when trying to select one of the added filters in the Filters panel, clicking on it doesn’t do anything.

I need to click on a different filter, then clicking back on the filter I wanted to select will work.

After multiple tries, I was able to reproduce this one time. Seems very inconsistent.

Windows 11
Shotcut 25.03.29

25.05.11 Windows 10
1080p monitor
No command line options for monitor scale.

It appears to be a 5 or 6-pixel dead zone between filters. I have to be in 1 or 2 pixels into the filter highlighted area.

Each cursor is the least possible position to double-click to activate/deactivate the filter.

This problem is so old that I don’t even pay attention to it anymore and just click “deselect filter”.

Not sure if this is the same issue but for me something like this always happens after drag&dropping to rearrange a filter. It’s very visible if there are only 2 filters.

I think after moving filter #2 to #1 place (so basically a swap), the old filter “line” #2 remains selected but without visual indication so clicking on it again doesn’t trigger the “new selection” action because it thinks it’s already selected so you need to click on a different filter to trigger internally a selection update then it will work as expected.

Edit: ok, I just tried it and couldn’t do it again, maybe there’s some extra thing I usually did that triggered the issue, I’ll update if I find what it was.

Windows 11 24H2 - Shotcut 25.05
A few additional remarks:
The issue happens with drag and drop or with the up and down buttons.

With only 2 filters, if one filter is dragged up or down, the other cannot be selected (@MusicalBox exemple).

With 3 or more filters:
-If a filter is dragged down, only the filter that was just below it cannot be selected. All others can.
-If a filter is dragged up, only the filter that was just above cannot be selected. All others can.
After another filter has been selected, everything works correctly.

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Well spotted @SergeC !

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C’est un peu plus compliqué chez moi.
Supposons un clip avec 5 filtres.
Je descend le filtre N°2 en 4° position, c’est le filtre qui est maintenant en position 2 qui ne peut pas être sélectionné.
Autrement dit, c’est toujours le filtre qui se retrouve à la position qu’occupait le filtre déplacé qui ne peut pas être sélectionné.

It’s a little more complicated for me.
Let’s assume a clip with 5 filters.
I move filter number 2 down to the 4th position; it’s the filter now in position 2 that can’t be selected.
In other words, it’s always the filter that ends up in the position occupied by the moved filter that can’t be selected.

Version V22

C’est ce que je voulais dire: ‘le filtre qui était juste en dessous…’, soit en position 3, maintenant en 2. :slightly_smiling_face:
That’s what I meant: “the filter that was just below.…”, which was in position 3, now in 2. :slightly_smiling_face: