Selecting listbox items with the keyboard (OSX)

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#1

Hello,

I’m wondering if anyone has an easy solution for listbox multiple selection using the keyboard on OSX. The default listbox selection behavior doesn’t match OSX’s selection behavior. Let’s say I have a row selected and then I press shift-down a couple times to select the two rows beneath. Then, I press shift-up. If I do this in the Finder, it will deselect the last row. In a Xojo listbox, however, it will select the row above the first selected row. I know I can implement this behavior in the listbox keydown event. But I’d rather not reinvent the wheel if there’s a known solution for this out there already.

Thanks,
David

#2

I too saw this strange behavior.

Note that in the Code Editor, there are also some other strange behaviors.

BTW: no I do not know.

#3

I’m sure that with some fiddling it can be handled in the keydown event but it’s strange behavior indeed. And I can’t think of any reason that this was done on purpose.
Was there ever a bug report filed for this?

edit: Yesterday: feedback://showreport?report_id=43705 and feedback://showreport?report_id=43704

#4

The listbox is not a native control. Everything (drawing, selecting, keyboard, etc.) is done by the Xojo framework.

#5

?
Of course. I realize that.
I’m not sure how that would explain why the selecting was implemented that way though.

#6

Whats the odds that we find this problem in osx and windows at almost the same time?

I see that the problems have already been verified on feedback, hopefully it’ll be a quick fix

I’m just going to ignore it for now, carry on with development and hope that it gets sorted in a later release of the framework.

#7

Another strange behavior:

when on the desktop, a click in the window’s Listbox set the clicked Row, the selected Row.

On OS X, doing that in a Finder’s window does not select the “clicked” item.

#8