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Simple GUI for Propeller development (both P1 and P2)
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flexprop's editor should accept triple-clicks to select a full line of text #36

Closed dgately closed 3 years ago

dgately commented 3 years ago

When editing in most editors on modern operating systems (macOS. Linux, WIN10) a triple click in a text edit field or editable text window will select the entire line of text. This really helps when editing and wanting to replace a line of text or remove it, quickly. I often find myself triple-clicking in flexprop only to realize that I did not get a fully selected line and my editing needs to stop and retrace what I meant to happen :-)

There is tcl library code within the flexprop sources that does handle triple clicks: ./tcl_library/tk8.7/text.tcl ./tcl_library/tk8.7/ttk/entry.tcl ./tcl_library/tk8.7/entry.tcl

totalspectrum commented 3 years ago

Triple clicks seem to work OK for me on Linux. And Windows is using those library functions, so I'm sure they work there. I guess triple clicks were added in tk8.6, but your Mac only has tk8.5?

The long term solution is probably to build tk from source for Mac, like we do for Windows. But this will only exacerbate the Gatekeeper problems people run into :(.

dgately commented 3 years ago

My Mac has tk8.6.9... Building an 8.7 variant might fix the problem, but as you say, may bring Gatekeeper issues... I may look into building 8.7 just to research this.

totalspectrum commented 3 years ago

Hmmm, that's odd. My linux is using tk 8.6 as well, and accepts triple clicks just fine. My Mac still has an old tk, so I had just assumed it was a tk version issue, but maybe it's a failing of tk on the Mac :(.

dgately commented 3 years ago

with macOS 11.5.2, and tcl-tk 8.6, triple-clicks seem to work now!

dgately commented 3 years ago

macOS 11.5.2 & tcl-tk 8.6 seem to allow triple-clicks!