#274 Candidate selector flawed

[Benoit]

The candidate selector pane on the right does NOT work on multiple selection to ADD a candidate ! It does work to DELETE canditates on multiple selection but not to ADD one.

Please correct the issue please.

Many thanks in advance
Best regards
iBenny
Hodoku v2.2

[CCV]

I'm not sure I understand you correctly, but the right-click dropdown menu never did allow to add a candidate to a cell under any circumstance. There are, however, several ways of adding candidates. See here, under "Using the mouse" (Normal/Alternate modes and Active Cell):
http://hodoku.sourceforge.net/en/docs.php

hth

[Benoit]

It has nothing to do with the contextual menu when you right-clic a cell.

When you make a multiple cell selection, you can DELETE candidate by "clicking" the right lower grid corresponding number. BUT... you can't ADD a candidate this way .

Here you can delete the "8" by clicking on the circled "8" but can't add a "1" that way ! You can ADD a candidate on a SINGLE cell basis, one at a time, but not in a multiple selection :

[CCV]

Thanks for clarifying, Benoit. I hadn't realised that Active Cell switches to "Exclude Candidate" when multiple cells are selected. Ordinarily, with only one cell selected, of course yes it can "Toggle Candidates."
It makes sense to me though, in that, from what I remember of using it, the purpose of multi-cell select is to be able to exclude candidates from numerous cells more easily. On the other hand, Adding a candidate to multiple cells would most likely result in it being invalid in at least some cells.
Looks to me it is working as intended - i.e., not a bug. In any case, sadly, this project has not been under development for a very long time.
There's a few version of it on Github, but focused only on personal interests.

You still have the option of adding candidates to multiple cells by using the Alternate mouse mode right-click method or, for this example, Ctrl+1 on your keyboard.

hth

[Benoit]

Hi CCV !

NO its NOT a bug but a feature request !!!

I knew about the CTRL-number shortcut to add in multi selection but wanted to add the mouse clic on the right grid too for I play with a friend who have a MAC in a remote session and the MAC CMD button do not behave like a Windows CTRL button so his CMD-number shortcut don't work. If he could use his mouse to do the bulk candidate addition, it would be nice. TOO bad Hodoku is not Mac compatible...

BTW : are you the Hodoku programmer ?

[CCV]

I am very very far from being a programmer of any description. This is, or rather was, hobiwan's (Bernhard Hobiger's) project, of which I have always been a fan.
I'm more interested in colours and other graphical elements. With the help of some programmers, I've made some changes, but am still working on how it looks. That's all I can do.
So far, there is this one https://github.com/1to9only/HoDoKu/releases/tag/2.2.2 I don't think you'll get much help for your request from there though.

To use the mouse to do the bulk of the work, I find the Alternate mouse mode quickest and easiest to use. I don't see why that wouldn't work on a Mac. I'm currently working with the JAR file, and it's no different to Windows versions in that regard. Has your friend tried that?
http://hodoku.sourceforge.net/en/docs_play.php#mouse

[Benoit]

Thanks for the tip CCV !