This wouldn't be a problem if IDEA recognized that, while the cursor is hovering over a selection, pressing the mouse button and moving the cursor, or pressing it and holding it for more than some (fairly short) threshold time indicates an intention to drag. Releasing it without moving the cursor in less than the drag threshold should be interpreted as an intent to change the location of the insertion point (and should do so). And clicking multiple times without moving the cursor indicates an intention to extend the selection.
By the way, the cursor, when placed over a selection, should change to the pointer; it should not remain the vertical bar. All this is fairly standard behavior, I think, where drag-and-drop editing is supported. "Maxim Shafirov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message ag9qnu$jsa$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:ag9qnu$jsa$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > 1. trying to select a 1 character region for drag is impossible,either a > > popup get in the way or the selection does not occur. > > This problem relies on the fact that clicking into to same place (so that > caret cursor does not change it's position) extends a selection to a word > then line then removes selection. In order to start dragging you have to > click into selection somewhere outside the character caret cursor poits to. > So it seems it is not possible to drag a single character selection. Is it a > major problem? Can we live with this? > > > 2. sometimes when dragging and dropping partway through the drag the drag > > the drag starts enlarging the selection not dragging it > Fixed in #634. > > > > 3. HI problem the currsor used for the drag and drop is inappropriate it > > masks the insertion point a better cursor would be an arrow with a box > like > > windows or something which equally did not cover the putative deop point. > Fixed in #634. Though, one uses system custom cursor which seems to be a > system specific. I'll investigate whether one is avaliable in all supported > platforms. > -- > > Best regards, > Maxim Shafirov > JetBrains, Inc / IntelliJ Software > http://www.intellij.com > "Develop with pleasure!" > > > "gary thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > ag8n51$6j4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:ag8n51$6j4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > Hi > > I am not usre if these have been documented before but I have had some > > problems with drag and drop. > > > > > > 2. sometimes when dragging and dropping partway through the drag the drag > > the drag starts enlarging the selection not dragging it > > > > 3. HI problem the currsor used for the drag and drop is inappropriate it > > masks the insertion point a better cursor would be an arrow with a box > like > > windows or something which equally did not cover the putative deop point. > > > > > > hope this helps gary > > > > > > _______________________________________________ Eap-bugs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.jetbrains.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-bugs
