On 7 Apr 2008, at 6:35 PM, Claus Atzenbeck wrote:

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> On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
>
>> On 7 Apr 2008, at 4:39 PM, Claus Atzenbeck wrote:
>>>
>>> Subject: Re: [Skim-app-users] Select part of highlighed area
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>
> It seems that something messes up the messages that I send as reply to
> the list. It seems that the mailing list does not like my e-mails'
> headers. Sorry about that.
>
>> I wouldn't know of any key. All modifiers are used, and non-modifier
>> keys are out of the question. So "whatever would be available" would
>> translate to "none" AFAICS.
>
> There is a solution, assuming that the behavior of selecting a
> highlighted area and selecting text (behind the highlighted area) is
> different:
>
> - Selecting an area would be a click (i.e. mouse button down and  
> release)
>
> - Selecting a text area would be a "mouse down + dragging", not a  
> click.
>
> Both should be true for the text selection tool as well as the text
> block selection tool (i.e. text selection tool + option key).
>
> Have in mind that "mouse down + dragging" has no effect on highlighted
> areas except selecting the highlight, which can also be done by  
> clicking
> on it.
>
> "Mouse down + dragging" is used for selecting text in Skim. Why not  
> use
> it for selecting text behind a highlighted area as well? It would be  
> the
> natural choice. Then, clicking would be the only way to select
> highlighted objects, which most users would expect anyhow.
>
> Differentiating "click" from "mouse down + drag" is not even an exotic
> behavior for Cocoa applications. For instance, imagine TextEdit. A  
> click
> on a selected text would remove the selection, where as "mouse down +
> drag" would drag the selected part to another location.
>
> Cheers,
> Claus

This is not a good solution. I would have to go too far into some  
technical issues to really explain, but it's not an option.

Christiaan
  

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