Re: [OBO-Edit Working Group] Fwd: Understanding selection and sub-selection

[Midori H. <mi...@eb...>]

Hi Nomi,

For me, 1.101 reproducibly defaults to sub-selecting the term that comes 
first alphabetically, regardless of how or in what order the terms were 
selected.

Admittedly, the user guide wording does not make this behavior very clear. 
It says "the first term you selected becomes the default sub-selection" -- 
this is true assuming that "first" means "first in the list", but not 
necessarily "first" in a temporal sense!

2beta28 is not quite so reproducible -- if I use ctrl-click, it seems to 
keep the first term I select as the sub-selection. But I can't figure out 
what the rule is for shift-click -- it sometimes holds on to the first 
thing, sometimes goes for the topmost term, sometimes one in the middle. I 
don't know what's going on there. I don't have very strong feelings about 
what the default should be, but consistency would be much appreciated!

m

On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Nomi Harris wrote:

>> I'm looking into the sub-selection problem in OE2, but I'm a bit
>> confused about how sub-selection is supposed to work.
>>
>> In order to keep things simple, I'm using the Relations, which
>> presumably have no hierarchy over each other--they are all equal
>> leaves.  If I select multiple relations, should the sub-selection be
>> the most recently selected one, or the first one I selected?  It
>> seems to me it should be consistently either one or the other of
>> those, but even in OE1, it's not.  If I (in OE1) select all four of
>> the relations, top-down, the sub-selection (darker highlight--which
>> is awfully subtle; shouldn't the colors be a bit more distinctive?)
>> is the top one (the first one I clicked on).  If I select them from
>> the bottom of the list to the top, the darker highlight moves with
>> each new selection and ends up being the top one again (the *last*
>> one I clicked on).
>>
>> I need to understand how this should behave before I can try to fix
>> the behavior in OE2.
>>
>> 	Nomi
>>
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