MacArthur, Ian (SELEX GALILEO, UK) wrote:

> If I remember right, it is "off" by default, but there are methods to
> programmatically request a rectangular selection.

Aha.

> highlight_rectangular, overlay_rectangular, remove_rectangular,
> select_rectangular, etc...

okay, these are all methods of Fl_Text_Buffer.

> There's no mouse action associated with that - but in your handle method
> you could enable that and call the selection functions...

Maybe not many users would have done that.

>> *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!

That looks plausible. And now I'm sure that my users can't have used it.

Then let's kill it, as Matthias suggested.

Albrecht
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