Re: [gtk-list] Selection behavior in entries (RFC)

[Peter Mattis <petm scam XCF Berkeley EDU>]

Owen Taylor writes:
>My inclination is to change things to match the Motif behavior,
>except in the case where there is a current _inactive_
>selection, in which case the new text will replace the
>inactive selection.

I agree with this. If the current selection is active (ie. it is the X
selection) then pasting should insert the selection where the mouse is
clicked. Replacing the active selection with itself seems kinda
silly. However, replacing an inactive selection is something that I
really like being able to do. Anyone ever notice that you can make an
inactive selection by dragging with the third mouse button?

Peter

PS Here's a completely untested patch to do the above. I'm pretty sure
it will compile...

--- gtkentry.c.bak      Thu Nov 20 19:29:31 1997
+++ gtkentry.c  Thu Nov 20 19:35:59 1997
@@ -719,7 +719,8 @@
     {
       if (event->button == 2)
        {
-         if (entry->selection_start_pos == entry->selection_end_pos)
+         if ((entry->selection_start_pos == entry->selection_end_pos) ||
+              (gdk_selection_owner_get (GDK_SELECTION_PRIMARY) == widget->window))
            entry->current_pos = gtk_entry_position (entry, event->x + entry->scroll_offset);
          gtk_selection_convert (widget, GDK_SELECTION_PRIMARY,
                                 GDK_TARGET_STRING, event->time);