[Lazarus] Alt key to set column selection mode is broken

Flávio Etrusco flavio.etrusco at gmail.com
Fri Aug 12 09:56:43 CEST 2011


On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 4:38 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys
<graemeg.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a suggestion to the Alt key for column section. Currently it
> doesn't work at all on Linux and probably *BSD too. The problem is two fold.
>
> 1) This is because the Alt+Click+Drag is already used by X11 to move
>   windows around (without doing in from the title bar).
>
> 2) Even though the description of that feature says Alt key, Lazarus
>   actually means "Left Alt" key only.
>
> What if Lazarus changes that option to use the Right Alt key instead.
> Currently this is not used by X11, and seeing that Lazarus seem to
> differentiate between Left Alt and Right Alt anyway, this could be a
> solution that could work on all platforms?
>
>
> Regards,
>  - Graeme -

Well, it'd better change to use any Alt then? Or be configurable? And
add shortcuts to change or toggle the SelectionMode? ;-)

Regards,
Flávio




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