Re: Re : "clickable url" needs several clics ...

[Peter Bloomfield <PeterBloomfield bellsouth net>]

On 01/11/2004 04:58:35 AM, Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh) wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Well, I think that, when the url is highlighted, it should get  
> the focus.
> And I click it when highlighted.

But how do you select the text of the URL, say for copying?  You  
press the button, move the pointer, and release the button.   
Balsa has to know that you're selecting text, not activating the  
URL.  Right now, it regards *any* movement between pressing and  
releasing as implying selection, not activation.  We could easily  
put in a small tolerance of a few pixels, as Eric suggested--and  
even add it as a user preference, if it was deemed important/ 
aggravating enough.

One alternative would be to use character locations instead of  
pointer (x,y) coordinates: activate if the pointer is over the  
same character (=offset into a GtkTextView).  Of course, then you  
can never select just a single character... ;-)

Peter