Re: [gtk-list] Rectangular selection and style guide

["M. David Krauss" <Fader frodo com>]

Good question. There really are so few apps that implement rectangular select
that I think it's a 'frontier' -- no real conventions.

I don't see any problem with using alt. It isn't your responsibility to make
sure the app can recieve the key. I /do/ have an old-fashioned belief that all
such things should be configurable, so the user can change it if it's a problem.

The important thing is to bear in mind is that whatever technique you use, it
should fit in a planned and orderly fashion with the rest of the interface.

But all that said, heres the way I'd love to see it done: like emacs. If you've
used emacs much, you know that it doesn't really have 'rectangular selections'
but rather a set of commands that treat the selection as rectangular. If you
combined this technique with some snazzy visual cue that indicated the extent
of the selection in both terms (linear and rectangular), well, that would
strike me as cool.

Good luck,

-M. D. Krauss

On Sun, 19 Dec 1999, Neil Hodgson wrote:
+ I'm implementing rectangular selection for my text editing widget
+ Scintilla and would like to know if there are any GTK+ or X conventions I
+ should be following.
+ 
+    On Windows, holding the Alt key down while swiping over text creates a
+ rectangular selection in those applications that support rectangular
+ selection. On X, most of the WMs intercept this and take it as a request to
+ drag the window about. It looks like the Control key is free to be used to
+ indicate rectangular selection.
+ 
+    Is there an application style guide that specifies how this and other
+ actions should work? Is there another application that I should copy here?
+ 
+    Neil
+ 
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