[iyonix-support] Re: Alt-Select Click renaming bug

  • From: Tim Powys-Lybbe <tim@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:05:10 GMT

In message of 12 Nov, Michael Talibard <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 12 Nov 2007, at 8:42, Dr Peter Young wrote:
> 
> > On 12 Nov 2007  Paul Sprangers <Paul@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >>> Has the Alt-Select Click renaming bug been fixed yet?
> >
> >> What sort of bug would that be?
> >> It seems to work here (5.13), but actually I wasn't aware that it  
> >> didn't in previous versions.
> >
> > Here, with 5.13, doing Alt-Select-Click over an object merely
> > highlights it. What should it do?
> 
> Here, with 5.13, Alt-Select-Click on the name enables
> renaming: it even puts the cursor just where you clicked.

A-S-C has always worked through all versions of RISC OS 5.  But
certainly with 5.13 and possibly with one or two before that, if I
rename the field and fail to move the cursor to the far right at the end
and only then hit Enter, it just opens the file, not renames it.

<Wild, uninformed speculation>
Though this could be a timing problem to do with the KVM.
</Wild, uninformed speculation>

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