I'll try to look into this myself over the weekend. Your patch shows me where 
to look in the code so I'll see if I can make it work.

Thanks.

: jamie

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Software is too important to be left to programmers.
 - Meilir Page-Jones

On Fri, 03 Mar 2006 13:11:38 -0600, Charles McNulty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Removing the context menu is definitely an unrelated change in app.js.
> Thanks for testing it for me.  If nothing different is happening at all,
> I suspect that it's because the javascript code that recognizes the
> platform isn't working properly.  There's not much more I can offer than
> what I already have without having a Mac to test on.
> 
> -Charles
> 
> Jamie Halmick wrote:
>> I tried applying these changes and the command key still doesn't do
> anything. If I use ctrl-click I get the desired behavior but no
> context-menu (maybe that's just a change in the newer app.js I downloaded
> from cvs) except if I hold ctrl-shift-click the context menu flashes up
> for a second and disappears. I'll make sure I've updated the entire app
> from cvs later tonight and re-apply the patch and test.
>>
>> : jamie
>>
>> --------
>> By doing just a little each day, I can gradually let the task overwhelm
> me.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 03 Mar 2006 08:54:02 -0600, Charles McNulty
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Can someone with a Mac test this patch and see if it works for IE
> and/or
>>> Mozilla, Safari, etc?  Again what is being tested it the use of the
>>> Command key for selecting single non-continuous messages.
>>>
>>> -Charles
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Charles McNulty wrote:
>>>> Actually, looking at the code again, it might not be that hard to
>>>> support IE for Mac.  Can any Mac users confirm on this page:
>>>> http://www.quirksmode.org/js/events/keys.html
>>>> that the keyCode for Command is 91?
>>>>
>>>> -Charles
>>>>
>>>> Jamie Halmick wrote:
>>>>> The standard behavior is for
>>>>>
>>>>> command-click to perform non-contiguous multiple select.
>>>>> shift-click performs contiguous multiple select
>>>>> command-shift-click appears to perform just like shift-click
>>>>>
>>>>> At least that's how it works in the Finder, which I think should be
>>>>> the Mac
>>>>> reference for this type of behaviour.
>>>>>
>>>>> I think that substituting command for control with the current
>>> roundcube
>>>>> behaviour would be fine though as it's really just "more"
>>> functionality.
>>>>> : jamie
>>>>>
>>>>> --------
>>>>> "Much human ingenuity has gone into finding the ultimate Before. The
>>>>> current
>>>>> state of knowledge can be summarized thus: In the beginning, there
> was
>>>>> nothing,
>>>>> which exploded"
>>>>>  - Terry Pratchett
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 16:21:20 -0600, Charles McNulty
>>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>>>> Is that the standard behavior for Macs?  When I implemented the
>>>>>> select/control-click behavior, I studied exactly what Outlook,
> Outlook
>>>>>> Express and Thunderbird did in Windows (XP) and attempted to emulate
>>>>>> that exact behavior.  I don't have a Mac, but if someone could
>>> describe
>>>>>> the exact behavior and key combinations with a Mac on a similar set
> of
>>>>>> standard applications, I'd be happy to attempt to implement it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Key combinations to test are:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Click
>>>>>> Shift-Click
>>>>>> Command-Click
>>>>>> Command-Shift-Click
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Situations to test are each of these in different combinations with
>>> each
>>>>>> other in different scenarios:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> When nothing is selected
>>>>>> When a continous list of things are selected
>>>>>> When a non-continuous list of things are selected
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So for instance, what happens when you click a list item,
> shift-click
>>> an
>>>>>> item 5 below it, command-click an item two up from that one and then
>>>>>> command-shift-click an item another 10 up from that?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If you can tell me definitively that a Command-click and
>>>>>> command-shift-click do the exact same thing in all situations as a
>>>>>> Control, then that will be an easy change.  The key is
> predictability.
>>>>>> What I'm going for here is the exact same behavior in RC as in ...
>>> well
>>>>>> whatever you Mac users use for e-mail.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -Charles
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Jamie Halmick wrote:
>>>>>>> This new select behavior is nice for contiguous selection but
> doesn't
>>>>>> really work on Macintosh. When you control-click you get the context
>>>>>> menu
>>>>>> (right click for Mac). Can you add the behavior so that the Command
>>> key
>>>>>> will do the same on the Mac as Control?
>>>>>>> : jamie
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --------
>>>>>>> "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly
>>> by"
>>>>>>>  - Douglas Adams
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>



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