Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ames!oliveb!amiga!cbmvax!andy
From: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Itty-bitty tiny little Workbench bugs?
Message-ID: <2950@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 16 Dec 87 16:06:11 GMT
References: <490@ra.rice.edu>
Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
Lines: 42

In article <490@ra.rice.edu> phil@rice.edu writes:
>I have found one or two minor bugs in Intuition.  Or are they in the
>Workbench?  Oh well.  Haven't heard them mentioned yet, so I'll throw them
>out at the crowd.
>
>Maybe we can call this the "lazy icon bug":
>1) select an icon so that either it is inverted or its alternate image
>is showing.
>2) notice that the window the icon is in is also "selected".
>2) select an application's window (a CLI or a Clock).
>3) notice how the icon still looks selected but the window is no longer
>selected.  The Workbench or Intuition or somebody forgot to put the icon's
>old image back.

Actually, this is a feature.  Because the icon(s) are still selected
you can use the 'extend-select' method (hold down the shift key) and
click on the Workbench window to reactivate the window without having
to reselect your icon(s).  This can be significant when you have
selected a half a dozen icons, and have to go to the CLI for a second.

>Then there's the "not-so-double click bug":
>Do the following in rapid succession
>1) select an icon
>2) select an application window (such as a CLI)
>3) click the same icon you selected in 1).
>4) notice how the Workbench decided to start up the application associated
>with that icon, even though you technically did NOT double click on it.

Try a 'slow' double click operation.  Take about the same amount of
time as it takes to click on a CLI then back to Workbench.  I bet you'll
see the application fire up as well. Then Check your Preference setting is 
for the time spacing on double clicks.  Maybe you want to cut that
time down.
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