Hi Cosmin,
I'm using a Logitech Roller Ball and the standard provided Vista
drivers so there shouldn't be a problem like this, but who knows?
from Robert Meek dba "Tangentals Design"
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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Cosmin Prund
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 8:52 AM
To: Borland's Delphi Discussion List
Subject: RE: Multi select not working as expected in TFileList.
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.
>
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