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From: kherron@ms.uky.edu (Kenneth Herron)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Workbench Discard bug
Keywords: Shift click Ok to discard
Message-ID: <12892@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 10 Oct 89 17:53:55 GMT
References: <4657@ncar.ucar.edu> <1989Oct10.131752.19374@uncecs.edu>
Reply-To: kherron@ms.uky.edu (Kenneth Herron)
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In episode <1989Oct10.131752.19374@uncecs.edu>, 
we heard utoddl@uncecs.edu (Todd M. Lewis) say:
|...  When you double-click
|a drawer icon, the window for that drawer opens, but the icon remains
|selected...  If you then Shift-select more icons and
|choose Discard from the menu, all your selected items will be
|discarded.
|  Because this does present such a risk, I think WB1.4 should have
|drawer icons unselect themselves when they are opened.  Until this,
|if you are about to shift-select several icons, first click on a
|workbench window's background to make sure nothing is already
|selected.

I'm not sure this is the solution either; Cleanup and Snapshot both
require clicking on the drawer or disk icon; it's nice to open a window
& immediately be able to clean it up (an option you'll be doing about
as often as deleting).

THE ANSWER is, of course, that every time you start shift-clicking
things, make the first one a regular click.  This will deselect anything
which happened to have been "left over" selected.

Kenneth Herron