> 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 I remember right, it is "off" by default, but there are methods to programmatically request a rectangular selection. highlight_rectangular, overlay_rectangular, remove_rectangular, select_rectangular, etc... There's no mouse action associated with that - but in your handle method you could enable that and call the selection functions... (It was a long time ago, but I think I was calling highlight_rectangular() and it often seemed to highlight the wrong bits of the display!) Now, in my test code, this kind of worked, sometimes, with mono-spaced fonts, but even then was a bit flaky, and was generally useless with any non-ASCII or non-fixed pitch font... > *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... Indeed. Though I'm not sure anyone can be using it - we never get anyone asking about it, and since it was flaky I'm sure we would, if there were users out there! SELEX Galileo Ltd Registered Office: Sigma House, Christopher Martin Road, Basildon, Essex SS14 3EL A company registered in England & Wales. Company no. 02426132 ******************************************************************** This email and any attachments are confidential to the intended recipient and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient please delete it from your system and notify the sender. You should not copy it or use it for any purpose nor disclose or distribute its contents to any other person. ******************************************************************** _______________________________________________ fltk-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk-dev
