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From: a752@mindlink.UUCP (Bruce Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: looking for the trashcan
Message-ID: <3176@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 13 Sep 90 22:27:30 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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> poffen@sj.ate.slb.com writes:
> 
> Not quite right (or at least confusing), shift click will highlight ALL files
> between the the current highlighted file, and the one you click on.  To high-
> light random files, hold down the ctrl key and click on desired files.


     There is a subtle and nasty error that can happen when you are using the
control key and mouse to click on a number of files.  If you have just created
a directory window, the highlight will be on the first entry, whether it be a
file or a subdirectory.  If you move the mouse to another file and hold down
the control key and click, the first entry in the window will be highlighted as
well as the one which you have just clicked on.  This first entry remains
highlighted during other control/clicks, so that in addition to the files which
you have specifically clicked on, you also get the first entry in the window.
If you are using the control key and mouse clicks to highlight a number of
files, the ***first*** file of the ones that you actually want must be clicked
on ***without*** the control key, in order to unstick the highlight from the
first entry in the window.
     Why do I mention this when it would seem to be readily apparent that you
have done the wrong thing by looking at the highlights?  The problem comes when
you open up a directory window and find so many files in it that you have to
scroll left-right to see them all.  If you scroll to the right so that you can
no longer see the first directory entry, then use a series of control/clicks to
highlight files for deleting or moving, the invisible first entry is also
selected.  Deleting three files in the middle of the scrolled window can then
also result in the deletion of the inadvertently selected first entry, whether
it be a file or an entire subdirectory.
     It would be helpful if in future releases of the File Manager a
control/click unsticks the highlight from whatever was highlighted before the
mouse action.  Microsoft - are you listening?
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Bruce Dunn   Vancouver, Canada    a752@mindlink.UUCP