[Qt-creator] Click to activate vs. reposition cursor

[Israel Brewster]

On Feb 25, 2009, at 6:45 AM, Ernst Huber wrote:

> What I observe is that clicking in the title bar of an editor window
> (i.e. a split pane) activates it without moving the cursor position
> while clicking somewhere in the coding area of an inactive editor  
> window
> activates it and moves the cursor to where the user clicked.
>
> This is different to programs such as MS Excel, Word etc. In these
> programs a click somewhere in the client area of an inactive window
> activates it with the cursor position unchanged. BUT in Visual Studio
> the behaviour is the same as in Qt Creator - you get the cursor where
> you clicked the inactive window.
>
> So I guess this behaviour is "user experience dependent" and not
> platform specific.

Interesting point. I'm on a Mac, OS X 10.5, and have only briefly used  
visual studio. In that usage, I don't believe I did much switching  
between applications, so I didn't run into this behavior, at least not  
that I recall. None of the other applications I have used exhibited  
this behavior, so I sort of thought that it was unusual. If this is  
not the case, I can probably get used to it, but at the moment at  
least it bugs me.

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>
> Regards
> Ernst
>
>
> Eike Ziller schrieb:
>> On Feb 24, 2009, at 6:59 PM, ext Israel Brewster wrote:
>>
>>
>>> One thing that I've noticed recently which seems to me to be  
>>> incorrect
>>> behavior is that when I click into a QtCreator edit window that is  
>>> in
>>> the background, it not only activates the window, it also  
>>> repositions
>>> the insertion point. So I click into the window to activate it, and
>>> start typing expecting the insertion point to be where I left it,  
>>> only
>>> to find that it has moved on me. Rather annoying :)
>>>
>>
>> Hi,
>> can you please tell us which platform you are working on? Because  
>> this
>> is most probably platform dependent behavior.
>> Thanks a lot,
>> Eike
>>
>>
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