[PD-dev] click-drag behavior

[Joe White]

Hi Hans,

Could you single-click drag to move and double-click to edit text?

It's a bit weird to change the interaction depending on if the object is
selected or not.

Cheers,
Joe

On 15 September 2011 20:21, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at> 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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