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

[Eike Ziller]

Hi,

On Feb 25, 2009, at 6:08 PM, ext Israel Brewster wrote:

> 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.

Seems that there is already a Qt task for it:
<http://www.qtsoftware.com/developer/task-tracker/index_html?id=242673+&method=entry 
 >

Best regards,
Eike

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