Richard,
It is probably very difficult for the Rev team to make a fundamental change today without creating some problems for somebody. I didn't realize the new behavior was specifically requested. If the majority of Rev users want the current triple-click behavior, it is fine with me - as long as I get a standard double-click. The triple-click for changing prices was a workaround for the Rev double-click which only selects one side of the decimal. In all of the programs I use regularly, a double-click selects a word. If there is a period (or any other punctuation) attached to the end of the word, it is ignored. If there is a decimal within the word, it is treated as part of the word - and selected with the word.
Do you see any problem with Rev behaving in the same way?
Paul Looney

On Jun 3, 2008, at 11:36 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

Phil Davis wrote:

In the transition from Rev 2.8.1 to 2.9.0 (Mac and Windows versions at least), there has been a change in double-click-text and triple-click-text behaviors. The 2.8.1 behaviors are exactly the same as they are in the several other apps on each platform where I tested this. The 2.9.0 behaviors aren't. In 2.9.0, it seems the trailing CR gets selected with the rest of the line upon triple-click, causing any replacement text to be inserted at the beginning of what was originally the line following the selected line. So the list linecount is shortened by one line.

Actually, this appears to be a fix in response to RQCC#5636:
<http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=5636>
Related, same fix:
<http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=282>

The challenge here is determining what the "standard" behavior is, and unfortunately Apple's HIG is vague on this subject:

   Some applications support triple-clicking. For example, in
   a word processor, the first click sets the insertion point,
   the second click selects the whole word, and the third
   click selects the whole sentence or paragraph. Supporting
   more than three clicks is inadvisable.

<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/ OSXHIGuidelines/XHIGUserInput/chapter_12_section_2.html#//apple_ref/ doc/uid/TP30000361-TPXREF8>

Looking at examples in the wild, in non-Apple apps triple-click behaviors appear to be implemented inconsistently: in Firefox and Thunderbird a triple-click does not include the trailing return, but in Adobe GoLive it does.

But in Apple apps like TextEdit, Stickies, iWeb, and iCal, a triple- click consistently includes the trailing return.

--
 Richard Gaskin
 Managing Editor, revJournal
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