[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Re: linux gtk - multiple selection setting

[Edoardo Comar <ecomar@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Grant Gayed wrote:

short story:
THANKS!!!!!!!!!!

long story:
on ubuntu where the behavior was the expected one I could not find the 
gtk-demo

on RHEL5 where the unexpected occurred, the gtk-demo you mention behaves 
exactly like eclipse did - needed to hit shift-ctrl-click instaed of 
ctrl-click
the puzzling thing was that the nautilus file explorer never displayed 
the odd behavior,

however, running gtk-demo I noticed that hitting ctrl was causing the 
selection to lose its color, e.g. the window was not in focus anymore.
the reason: the mouse preference to highlight the cursor position when 
ctrl was pressed (why this never happened with nautilus I don't know)!

now gtk and eclipse behavior is the expected one.
cheers

> If you run gtk-demo on the linux distro with the unexpected behaviour, which
> selection behaviour do you see in its Tree View > Tree Store page?
> SWT/JFace do not do anything to change native behaviours like this.  I don't
> know if it's configurable in the OS, I haven't heard of a varation like this
> before.
>
> Grant
>
>
> "Edoardo Comar" <ecomar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:fhc1s3$irk$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > to perform a multiple selection in eclipse treeviewers and table viewers
> >
> > on red hat I have to use ctrl-shift-click
> > on ubuntu I just use ctrl-click (like in windows)
> >
> > nautilus (gnome's file explorer) always uses plain ctrl-click
> >
> > what setting controls the different swt(jface?) behavior on the two
> distros?
> > is it user-tweakable ?