On Jan 23, 2014, at 14:24, Claus Atzenbeck wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Jan 2014 at 1:41pm +0100, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
> 
>> I see now. This is really weird. I always assumed, as seems natural to 
>> me, that new notes are always added on top, but apparently PDFKit adds 
>> them just in somewhere in some arbitrary place in the hierarchy, which 
>> seems non-sensible to me. So when it's in the middle, there is a 
>> chance we find the link before the note. But it's basically 
>> unpredictable, because it's arbitrary. I really think Apple makes a 
>> mistake, but unfortunately it's a mistake over which they give us 
>> absolutely no control.
>> 
>> I will change the selection code to take care of this.
> 
> This would be great.
> 
>> As for selecting in the notes pane, you can edit, but you have to move to 
>> the PDF view first. You can do this using (shift) tab.
> 
> Yes, it's a possibility to select a note in the notes pane, press tab a 
> couple of time to activate the PDF view pane and then move the note by 
> pressing the cursor keys. However, this is very time consuming if you 
> want to do this several times.
> 
>> And have you tried option-tab?
> 
> Yes, this also work, however, I have quite a number of notes on the PDF, 
> which makes selecting a specific one also quite time consuming.
> 
> The solution of changing the selection code such that the mouse click 
> reaches the note instead of the expectedly underlying link anchor area 
> would be the best one I guess.
> 
> Thanks for your support.
> 
> Best,
> Claus

Actually, the problem is precisely that the link is on top of the note, rather 
than the other way around.

Christiaan


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