[Eric] right click bug

[Detlev Offenbach]

On Samstag, 25. September 2010, cracker sniff wrote:
> The bug is in the UI of Eric itself, NOT with a UI I am making with Eric.
>  (v4.4.2 (r3677) on Ubuntu 10.04)
> 
> Right-clicking can open a context menu, but if you hold it down long enough
> for that context menu to open underneath the cursor, then releasing that
> same right mouse button can select and start one of those options.  This
> happens even if you only hold it down for a fraction of a second, and have
> no time to see or read anything.
> 
> For example in the Project-Viewer's Sources tab, right clicks on a source
> file will reveal a menu where deleting/removing is one of the options.  So
> if you accidentally hold the right-click down for just a fraction of a
> second before letting go of it, then you can delete/remove that file
> without an option for undo.  It happens so fast that you don't know what
> you just did.
> 
> I'm used to UIs that don't let this happen.  If a right mouse button down
> event opens a menu, then the up of that same button should not be ignored.
>  Or am I missing something?  Maybe this isn't up to Eric, but a function of
> Gnome?
> 
> I'm giving up on the tutorials for learning Eric.  I'm on a laptop without
> perfect mouse control (more of a typer anyway), and I can't stop from
> accidentally doing things that have no undo option.  What a waste.  Eric
> seems so clean and convenient.

Hi,

occasionally I have observed this as well. However, eric is not doing anything 
special with mouse clicks. The issue seems to be within Qt. Sorry that I 
cannot do anything about it.

Regards,
Detlev
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Detlev Offenbach
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