MacArthur, Ian (SELEX GALILEO, UK) wrote:
>>>>  Rectangular selections pose a real problem.
>>> Bah! It never worked well anyway...
>> Can I kicck it out? Can I, can I? Pleeaaase?  :-P
> 
> Many years ago - and I do mean *many* - I made a whole bunch of posts
> about rectangular selections (at the time I had a project where I
> thought they would be useful...) and you, Bill, Mike, others all pitched
> in...
> 
> Anyway, I had a go fixing it, and was entirely unsuccessful - it makes
> too many assumptions about the mono-pitched-ness of the fonts in use,
> and is just not amenable to fixing.
> 
> Plus, I could never figure out the nedit code anyway.
> 
> I can't see that we would miss it...

Hmm, did it work at all? How would it be done?

I tried with nedit, and there I could do a rectangular selection by
dragging the mouse while holding CTRL. This doesn't work with my app in
FLTK 1, and I also tried the editor demo in FLTK 1 w/o success.

Ian, do you know *how* it used (or was supposed) to work?

*If* it didn't work in FLTK 1 at all, then the decision is easy: kill it.
But if it worked, maybe some users would complain? We could still
remove it, but we should be aware of that...

Albrecht
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