Something that Drives me *CRAZY*

[Dave]

Hi,

That sounds reasonable. Then to move the object less than the slop  
rect would have to be achieved using the cursor keys? Do the keys  
work on all objects? I seem to remember some issues with this in the  
past, but can't remember the details.

All the Best
Dave


On 26 Feb 2007, at 15:07, Ken Ray wrote:

> On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 13:23:08 +0000, Dave wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Yes, time would work, or would be better to have it so you had to
>> mouse up, mouse down (select the object) and then mouse down again to
>> move it.
>
> Sorry to be a dissenting voice here, but having to do *that* would
> drive me crazy. :-) In fact, one of the things that has happened in
> recent years in OS X has been that in order to drag text you have to
> hilite it, hold the mouse down for 1/2 a second or so, and then drag.
> It *used* to be that you could just hilite, click and drag with no
> delay, but apparently it was causing some issues for some people
> dragging text when they didn't want to. But the current behavior  
> drives
> me nuts because I was conditioned to the earlier behavior.
>
> I think what's needed here is that the IDE implement what used to be
> called a "slop rect" - a region of a couple of pixels around the mouse
> location in all directions. If the mouse moves ONLY within the slop
> rect, then the underlying object doesn't move, but dragging the mouse
> out of the slop rect would cause the object to be dragged.
>
> Just my 2 cents,
>
> Ken Ray
> Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
> Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
> Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
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