PR# 4198 Suggestion - Pick-and-Drop by double-right-clicking

Problem Report Summary
Submitter: peter_gummer
Category: EiffelStudio
Priority: High
Date: 2005/01/31
Class: Feature Request
Severity: Serious
Number: 4198
Release: 5.5.1012
Confidential: No
Status: Open
Responsible:
Environment: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Synopsis: Suggestion - Pick-and-Drop by double-right-clicking

Description
I would like to see pick-and-drop initiated by a double-right-click rather than the current single-right-click.

Double-right-click would put EiffelStudio into "pick" mode. A single-right-click would still be sufficient for the "drop".

My reason for making this request is that pick-and-drop currently usurps the standard roles of the right mouse button (i.e. drag-and-drop and to open popup menus). The fact that EiffelStudio cannot support drag-and-drop or popup menus makes it harder to use, especially for new users.

Having freed the right-mouse-click to perform its standard roles, I would then hope to see standard drag-and-drop and popup menu capabilities added to EiffelStudio.

The topmost item in a popup menu might be "Pick", where appropriate. This would assist users to learn about pick-and-drop.

Because this change is likely to annoy many of your existing customers, you would have to provide a "Single-click pick-and-drop" option in Tools | Preferences. If enabled, the current behaviour would apply, and drag-and-drop and and popup menus would be unavailable.
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From: Peter Gummer <pgummer@decisions-made-easy.com.au>
To: bugs@support.eiffel.com
Cc: 
Subject: RE: EiffelStudio/4198: Suggestion - Pick-and-Drop by double-right
	-clicking
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 15:15:13 +1100 

 I've just noticed that in the suggestion below I make reference to
 drag-and-drop being a standard function of the right-click. Of course it is
 not. This was a stupid error on my part; please disregard any references to
 drag-and-drop in the suggestion below.
 
 My amended suggestion is as follows:
 
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 I would like to see pick-and-drop initiated by a double-right-click rather
 than the current single-right-click.
 
 A double-right-click would put EiffelStudio into "pick" mode. A
 single-right-click would still be sufficient for the "drop".
 
 Having freed the right-mouse-click, I would then hope to see standard
 popup menu capabilities added to EiffelStudio.
 
 The topmost item in a popup menu might be "Pick", where appropriate.
 This would assist users to l
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