[PD-dev] click-drag behavior

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Now that I think about it, its kind of similar to how it behaves when
you click-n-drag a multiple selection of objects.  Except there, the
mouseup keeps the selection but does not activate the text for editing,
which is good.  But I think with a single object box, it should loose
the selection if there was a click followed by a drag.  click then
mouseup should stay the same.

.hc


On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 15:21 -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> One thing that often bugs me when editing is the click-n-drag behavior
> of objects.  Here's the outline:
> 
> click and release unselected object
> --------------------------------
> * mouse down selects the object
> * mouse up selects the text
> 
> click and release selected object
> --------------------------------
> * mouse down drags the cursor in the text
> * mouse up does nothing
> 
> click and drag unselected object
> --------------------------------
> 
> * mouse down moves the object
> * mouse up releases the drag and selects the text
> 
> click and drag selected object
> --------------------------------
> 
> * mouse down moves the cursor in the text
> * mouse up stops that
> 
> 
> I think that a better behavior would be this.  When an unselected object
> is click-n-dragged, mouseup doesn't select the text or the object.  Then
> you can move an object, then immediately move it again without having to
> click to deselect it first.
> 
> This can be done with a 'moved' flag.  But I can't really find where to
> put it, that code is pretty hard to follow (g_rtext.c, g_text.c, and the
> widgetbehavior).  I attached my log of the pd-gui messages of the four
> cases above.
> 
> .hc
> 
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