Unable to easily drag-select multiple items in ListView

[Dirk Möbius <dm...@scoop-gmbh.de>]

Continuing the discussion from  
http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIVOT-369 ...

I understand now that PIVOT-369 was about selecting multiple items and  
_then_ dragging them to some other destination. I'm talking about a  
different functionality: the ability to select multiple items with the  
mouse by holding down the mouse button.

You can try this for instance on the JIRA Find Issues web page  
https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa :
The field "Project" is a multi-select list. Select any item with left  
mouse click first, than drag and hold the left mouse button and move  
down: more items will be selected.

This works at least in Firefox and IE, but not in Chrome currently.

I'd really like to see this feature in Pivot for all *View components  
when multi-select is enabled, because it seems to be a pretty common  
UI functionality.

Dirk.

Re: Unable to easily drag-select multiple items in ListView

[Chris Bartlett <cb...@gmail.com>]

(Opera 10.63 also behaves this way on the link you provided)

The idea sounds reasonable to me and it seems to be a good match with the
current method of expanding a selection in ListViews & TableViews using the
SHIFT+UP/DOWN keys, or SHIFT+LEFT CLICK.

After a quick look at the multi-select TreeView in KitchenSink 1.5.2, it
doesn't seem to support either of the above 2 methods, only CTRL+LEFT CLICK

I suggest that you add a new ticket in JIRA targeting v2.1.  We will soon be
starting the 2.0 release process, so only really plan to make bug fixes
before then.

Chris

On 6 December 2010 22:58, Dirk Möbius <dm...@scoop-gmbh.de> wrote:

> Continuing the discussion from
> http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIVOT-369 ...
>
> I understand now that PIVOT-369 was about selecting multiple items and
> _then_ dragging them to some other destination. I'm talking about a
> different functionality: the ability to select multiple items with the mouse
> by holding down the mouse button.
>
> You can try this for instance on the JIRA Find Issues web page
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa :
> The field "Project" is a multi-select list. Select any item with left mouse
> click first, than drag and hold the left mouse button and move down: more
> items will be selected.
>
> This works at least in Firefox and IE, but not in Chrome currently.
>
> I'd really like to see this feature in Pivot for all *View components when
> multi-select is enabled, because it seems to be a pretty common UI
> functionality.
>
> Dirk.
>
>
>