1st mouseclick

Franticek · Post by **Franticek** » 2004 Sep 01, 16:16

-- The option "ignore 1st mousclick" doesn't work, neither on W98 nor XP!
-- Is it posible to CHANGE a selection using a filter, not only ADD it to a current selection?

Post by **nikos** » 2004 Sep 01, 17:07

in what sense doesn't it work, what are you trying to do?

Franticek · Post by **Franticek** » 2004 Sep 20, 13:36

-- If there is only ONE line selected and you change the active folder by a mouseclick to the other folder you always select the line you click on. If there are more than one line selected the selection stays aktive!

-- in addition to my second question: with 2xexplorer and selecting objects with NUM + there was the possibility to ADD or make selection NEW

fgagnon · Post by **fgagnon** » 2004 Sep 20, 15:56

I may not understand your question & I am not all that familiar with 2x,
but it may be related to
Mark | Sticky selection
or use Alt+S to toggle sticky selection behaviour

PS - this is covered more in the docs

narayan · Post by **narayan** » 2004 Sep 21, 05:20

-- If there is only ONE line selected and you change the active folder by a mouseclick to the other folder you always select the line you click on.

This has nothing to do with exactly how many items you have got in the selection: When you have selected the "Eat first mouseclick..." option, the first click on the pane only selects the pane without affecting the selection that is already there.

On the other hand, if you don't want to waste clicks that way, you could always disable this option. In that case, your mouse action in the passive pane will not only make it active, but also affect the selection that was there so far.

Note that if the sticky selection mode is ON (ALT+S toggles it), the new selection you make will be added to the existing selection.

JRz · Post by **JRz** » 2004 Sep 21, 14:33

Whoow guys, not so fast!!

This is by design!!

When you have only one item 'selected', the first mouse click is not eaten at all. This is the way Nikos intended it to work. Only when you have more than one item in your selection, the 'eat first mouse click in panes to protect selection' opotion has the effect it promises.

narayan, maybe this needs some further explaining in the manual (page 154)??

narayan · Post by **narayan** » 2004 Sep 22, 05:14

Thanks Jan. Even I am discovering new virtues of the application every day!

Though I can't see much advantage in this particular exemption: a selection of one is nonetheless a selection.