Never noticed anything funny with Vista's Explorer, so I gave this a try. Say I have a list of files, numbered from 1 to 10 (so I can make my point).
(a) Click on file "1": It obviously got selected. Shift+Click on file "3": files 1-3 are now selected (as expected, I employed the shift key to multi-select) (b) Shift-Click file "1". It got selected. Release shift key. Move to file 3 and shift-click. Again, files 1-3 got selected (as expected) (c) Multi-select files 1-3. Ctrl+Click file 5. Release ctrl key, move to file 7 and do Ctrl+Shift+Key: files 1-3, 5-7 are now selected (as expected!) (can't imagine an more difficult test) I've got something similar happening to me once, and the problem proved to be somewhere with the mouse/keyboard driver. I had an Microsoft wireless desktop set (so keyboard + mouse from the same manufacturer, supposedly an good manufacturer that should know how to write a Windows driver). If I pressed the Shift key on my keyboard and then moved the mouse, the Shift key would register un unselect event (it looked as if I released the shift key, even those I was firmly pressing it down). This obviously had all sorts of funny results, especially when trying to multi-select things, and especially when trying to multi-select objects on a Delphi form. Is it possible that you're running into an equally-bizarre problem with your Vista? -- Cosmin Prund > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Robert Meek > Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 5:21 PM > To: 'Borland's Delphi Discussion List' > Subject: RE: Multi select not working as expected in TFileList. > > I don't know how it works for the rest of you, as it seems many > are describing some subtle differences, but for me at least, ever since > I installed Vista, Explore has aggravated me for a number of reasons. > And one of these is the fact that I can no longer multi-select a group > of files the way I used to. Now I must select the first file, then I > must hold the shift key down and pull the mouse pointer down the list > of > files until I reach the last file I want included in the group, where > as > it used to be that I could click the first file and not have to worry > about holding the shift key down at all! I would simply hold it down > while clicking on the last file I wanted to add to the selection group. > It was much easier that way. But as always, unless you employ the Ctrl > key, multi-selection groups in Explorer MUST be made in consecutive > order and without skipping any files as you go down the list. > > from Robert Meek dba "Tangentals Design" > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Freelance Windows Programming for XP and Vista > Also proud to be a Moderator of the "Delphi-List" at elists.org > > "Reality cannot be explained...only enjoyed or endured as your current > perspective allows!" > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Ross Levis > Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 11:24 PM > To: 'Borland's Delphi Discussion List' > Subject: RE: Multi select not working as expected in TFileList. > > That's not what I experience in Windows Explorer. I can click a file; > release mouse button; shift+click another file to select multiple > files; > release mouse button. Now click and hold the mouse button down on a > selected file and it starts dragging all the files. > > This is how it's always worked since Win95 at least. > > Ross. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf > Of CubicDesign > Sent: Monday, 18 June 2007 20:41 > To: Borland's Delphi Discussion List > Subject: Re: Multi select not working as expected in TFileList. > > > > Doug Chamberlin wrote: > > You do need to mouse-down on the final selected item and > > then immediately start the drag operation. Isn't this standard > behavior? > > > > > > I didn't used Windows Explorer in the last 10 years so I went straight > in Explorer and > 1. I selected some files (shift click) > 2. Then I released the click > 3. I clicked again on the selection (in order to start the drag > operation) and the selection was not lost, like it is lost in > TFileList. > > So I don't think that TFileList has a 'standard' behavior. > Maybe I don't use Explorer, but I know that many (majority) users do. > > This bug appears on the 'fixed bugs list' in Delphi 4. It looks like > somewhere on the road, between D4 and D7 it was reintroduced. > > _______________________________________________ > Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] > http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi > > _______________________________________________ > Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] > http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi
