[softwarelist] Re: Lock symbol
- From: Chris Johnson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 00:04:53 +0100
In article <4E1E15E5.2040303@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Peter Prewett <pprewett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Why does the lock key appear when trying to high light a section
> of text.
> For instance need to move a paragraph or a word click and key
> appears.
> Using windows 7 64 bit I7 computer with a clean install of all
> programs etc.
This has come up on previous occasions. Quoting from previous posts:
> Dave Symes <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Want to select it, put caret at the start of the selection then
> > drag along the text, it doesn't, we get a key symbol instead.
Chris Johnson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I think you are holding down the mouse button too long before
> starting the drag. A 'long' hold down is detected by OPro as the
> start of a 'move the frame' operation. However, if the frame is a
> master frame, then it is locked and cannot be moved and the key
> pointer is to remind you of this. If you start the drag to select
> the text straight away then the selection occurs.
David Pilling wrote:
> Yes, the problem is OP having the concepts of click drag (mark
> text) and long click drag (move things). Whilst no one seemed to
> have problems with this on RISC OS on Windows it has upset people
> and I added a
> Choice->View->long click delay
> setting. ISTR that by setting it big enough you can get rid of long
> click drags. See the changes file on the web site.
Chris...
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