Sticky/ Hover/ Single Click

Gork · Post by **Gork** » 2004 Nov 05, 16:57

I discovered this forum last night and was reading through a bunch of threads about "Sticky Selection." I've never had this work properly and finally decided to figure out for sure why. So, here's the deal...

If I activate "Single click activation" and "Hover selection" then try to activate Sticky nothing seems to happen. The checkmark doesn't appear on the menu, nothing. If I deactivate Single click and Hover then choose Sticky a checkmark appears and Sticky works just like I assumed it should. If I then activate Single and Hover the check mark remains on the menu for Sticky and things act weird until I turn Sticky back off. (By weird I mean that hovering won't select yet it does underline each file as the mouse cursor passes over it and also puts each item in a box.) I then turn off Sticky and everything returns to normal. Once again, though, I cannot activate Sticky.

I can see that Sticky mixed with Hover and Single would be pretty much worthless, and my question is: Is this by design or overlooked? It seems like, if Sticky isn't supposed to work with Single/Hover, that activating Single/Hover should turn off Sticky automatically.

Note that I did not try turning off one OR the other of Single and Hover to see what would happen.

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fgagnon · Post by **fgagnon** » 2004 Nov 05, 17:50

Gork wrote:I can see that Sticky mixed with Hover and Single would be pretty much worthless, and my question is: Is this by design or overlooked? It seems like, if Sticky isn't supposed to work with Single/Hover, that activating Single/Hover should turn off Sticky automatically.

While the design recognised the combination as worthless, it seems the settings verification logic missed catching the combination you found.
Good catch of a silly combo -- it should be easy for nikos to fix.

Post by **nikos** » 2004 Nov 08, 20:27

hover selection is incompatible with sticky selection
when you enable it from tools | options you lose sticky

fgagnon · Post by **fgagnon** » 2004 Nov 08, 22:34

1. Welcome back, nikos.
I hope the long weekend was time well-spent.

2. re: Gork's observation ... Yes, hover is incompatible with sticky.
But he was merely pointing out that "sticky" doesn't get cleanly turned off for the reported sequence.
Things would look & feel more "Professional" if that loose end were tucked in so it didn't show.

Gork · Post by **Gork** » 2004 Nov 09, 08:07

fgagnon wrote:"sticky" doesn't get cleanly turned off for the reported sequence.

'Zactly. Thanks for the clarification - and much more suscinct as well.

Post by **nikos** » 2004 Nov 09, 08:46

ok, let's call it a bug then

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