[2007 bug] Shift+click

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Ryan Williams
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[2007 bug] Shift+click

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Holding shift and then left clicking should highlight any text between your text cursor and where you click. This is standard Windows behaviour, as well as WeBuilder.

In addition, if you keep shift held down after doing this and then click again, you can highlight a bit more text. You should also be able to subtract text from your selection by doing this.

This is again standard Windows behaviour (you can do it even on the text in this post if you like), but doesn't work in WeBuilder. :shock:

This may sound really picky, but people do form habits around basic Windows functionality like this and it's very important that an application honours those habits and preferences. I do this all the time and it does bother me, hence the bug report. :D

Another similar case of not honouring Windows behaviour is if you try CTRL+A in the dialogue boxes such as 'Search' it either fails completely, or if selects all the text in the main editing window.
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Ryan Williams
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Post by Ryan Williams »

Another weird thing that I keep stumbling into a lot is that if you click between two tags (for example <br><br>), type something, and then use shift+click to select it, the selection fails.

You can test this yourself by simply making a blank document, typing <div></div>, clicking between the two tags, and then typing 'test'. Try to immediately shift+click to before the first 't' and it should fail.

This same bug also seems to occur in tag properties (eg: <tag>) and probably some other circumstances.
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Post by big0mike »

My beef with selections, for which I am currently perusing the forum for an answer, is using SHIFT and the arrow keys to select. If you put your text directly behind an opening <td> tag and hold CTL+SHIFT and the RIGHT ARROW it selects words until you stop. Problem is when you get to the </td> it selects the </ instead of stopping right in front of it which would be highlighting the entire cells contents. That's bugging me...
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Post by Karlis »

The problem is that there are like zillion of these standard behaviors. Our editor is not derived from Windows control dlls, thus everything is emulated / implemented on our own.

99% is already there, but as you pointed out, indeed there are some places for improvement. Now this is given a low priority because 90% don't use this, but rest asured, we are aware.

p.s. Ctrl + A in find dialog will be corrected in the nearest time.
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