Selection behaviour in File Window unexpected

[EdP]

If you had more than one thumbnail selected in IMatch 3, and did something that caused the window focus to change (such as using the Category panel to assign some categories) then a single click on a thumbnail back in the thumbnail window caused only that image to be selected, and any previous selections cleared.

In IMatch 5 this behaviour is only reproduced if you click on an image that was not part of the original selection. If you click on an image in the original selection the whole multiple selection is still selected.

I prefer the IMatch 3 behaviour, which mirrors normal Windows conventions as far as I know, because the IM5 way means I often inadvertently perform operations on multiple images when I only meant to do it on one!

Apologies if this has been mentioned before, or is an intended change (in which case I'll just have to get used to it).

Ed

[Mario]

This behavior is part of the design and prevents accidental loss of the current selection when you switch between multiple panels. This was often requested.

When the file window does not have the focus and you click a thumbnail panel or row, the current selection is not changed. When you click again, it shows the same behavior as IMatch 3. In short: Just click twice.

[ubacher]

EdP says

......normal Windows conventions as far as I know, because the IM5 way means I often inadvertently perform operations on multiple images when I only meant to do it on one!

I get caught with this again and again. (Mostly when one of the selected thumbnails is not visible.)  I suffer with you.

Mario says:

In short: Just click twice.

He forgot to mention to click with a pause in between. I could not count the times that I opened the viewer because I clicked too fast.

[Mario]

He forgot to mention to click with a pause in between. I could not count the times that I opened the viewer because I clicked too fast.

If you "fall" for this often, make it a habit to check the number of selected files shown in the file window caption bar. That's why this display is there. Or, click between the thumbnails or in another space in the file window to reset the selection. The "click once to focus" is only active when you click on a thumbnail already selected, not when you click on another thumbnail or in an empty space.

When you click faster than the double-click time configured in Windows, IMatch receives a "double-click" event, not two separate mouse-clicks. You can configure your personal optimum in the Windows control panel.

[Carlo Didier]

I get caught with this again and again.

I got similar problems with the way iMatch deviates from the usual behavior in this context, resulting in many images assigned to the wrong categories ...

Mario: Wouldn't it be possible to re-select the file window not by clicking on an image, but by clicking on the header of the file window (where the folder path is diaplayed)? Right now this doesn't work.

[Mario]

Please add a feature request if you want to change the behavior of this.

[Mario]

Ignore. I have made the change already. Clicking the file window caption bar now puts the focus on the file window.

[Carlo Didier]

Ignore. I have made the change already. Clicking the file window caption bar now puts the focus on the file window.

Mario, sometimes I think you are even ahead of yourself and do things faster than your own brain needs to decide to do them 

[sinus]

Mario, sometimes I think you are even ahead of yourself and do things faster than your own brain needs to decide to do them 

     

[Ferdinand]

+1

[Mario]

Mario, sometimes I think you are even ahead of yourself and do things faster than your own brain needs to decide to do them 

This one was rather a <face-palm> feature. I had implemented this already - intercepting the mouse-click on the caption bar for some other functionality, but forgotten to add the 'SetFocus()' call for the file window. Took only 2 minutes to find, remember and correct.

IMatch 5 now has about 2,500 source code files and who knows how many lines of code. Hard to remember everything, even for me