Re: multiple selection and drag-n-drop

[David Nečas (Yeti) <yeti physics muni cz>]

On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 10:29:47AM -0400, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> I suppose somebody else must have come across this issue -- and if 
> so I'd be grateful for any ideas.
> 
> I have a treeview in which GTK_SELECTION_MULTIPLE is enabled.  
> And there's a meaning attached to dragging elements from this 
> treeview to another window.  
> 
> The design problem is that if the user has selected multiple 
> elements in the treeview (using shift- or ctrl-click), and then 
> she presses the mouse button to start a drag, that press undoes 
> the multiple selection, and only the element directly under the 
> mouse pointer actually gets dragged.

A very old bug.  See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70479

Yeti

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