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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 7/20/2017 4:38 PM, Oliver Walters wrote:
> I think the object should remain selected after the context menu is
> closed. But, right clicking on a *different* object should deselect the
> first one, select the new one, and then open the context menu on the
> newly selected item. 
> 
> There are many times that erroneously deselecting the first item would
> result in more work for the user, as they wanted to cancel the menu but
> not the selection. 

I'm OK with this but I do not want to have to manually deselect the
first object to perform a right click action on a different object.  I
would be fine if we made this behavior an option for users who feel the
need to select and deselect objects manually.

> 
> On 21 Jul 2017 03:22, "Wayne Stambaugh" <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     I've finally forced myself to start using the GAL canvas for new
>     projects and I immediately ran into an unexpected behavior regarding
>     context menus.  If I right click on an object, it gets selected and the
>     context menu for that object is shown as expected.  If I change my mind
>     and close the context menu with the escape key, the context menu
>     disappears.  So far so good but here is where things get ugly.  The
>     object from the canceled context menu is still selected so if I move the
>     cursor to a different object and right click, the context menu from the
>     previously (still) selected object appears and selecting a command from
>     the context menu will be performed on the object at the first right
>     click position rather than the object the cursor is currently over.
>     This seems broken to me.  I have to hit the escape key a second time to
>     deselect the initial object selection.  Is this the behavior we really
>     want?  I would expect that the initial object would have been deselected
>     when I aborted the context menu (or performed a command on the selected
>     object) so the next right click would select the new object.  With the
>     current behavior, I have to hit the escape key a second time to deselect
>     the original selection.  Anyone who has been following the dev mailing
>     list for any amount of time knows how much I dislike additional steps to
>     accomplish a task.  This falls under that category in a big way.  Can
>     this be changed to mimic the behavior of the legacy canvas?  If so, I
>     will file a bug report.  If not, we need to discuss this before I am
>     willing to kick the legacy canvas to the curb.
> 
>     Cheers,
> 
>     Wayne
> 
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