Re: Some issues with recent GUI version

[John W. Eaton]

On 04/14/2013 03:52 PM, PhilipNienhuis wrote:

> - One can all too easily change variable names in the workspace browser.
> Presently all that is needed to foobar variable names is having clicked on
> the workspace pane, with the focussed variable possibly scrolled out of
> sight, and start typing an Octave command, assuming it'll end up in the
> command window.
> I'd rather have it so that one needs to first right click on a variable name
> and then explicitly select "Rename", only working for that one right-clicked
> variable.

I thought that it was necessary to double click to enter an "edit" mode, 
but I see that highlighting is enough to allow the entire contents of 
the variable name field to be replaced.  Is there some easy way to 
disable that, and not enter edit mode without the double click? 
Alternatively, I don't have a problem with restricting this action to a 
context menu because I don't think that renaming variables is a really 
common thing to do.  Am I wrong?  Do people really use this feature often?

Another related issue is that copying to the clipboard doesn't seem to 
work for me unless I'm in edit mode.  I'd expect to be able to copy the 
contents of the cell without entering edit mode.  I can add a context 
menu item for copy, but I don't know how to make copy work directly from 
the table cell.

> - (A bit related) I find it misleading that the cursor in the command window
> keeps blinking even if focus is in another pane.
> (Background: I'm having "focus follows mouse" set (both on Linux and on
> Windows, the latter using MS' TweakUI powertoy) but that doesn't work within
> the Octave GUI.)

OK, I agree that there should be some visual clue that the focus has 
changed, but I'm not sure how to disable the blinking.  Anyone?

> - Interrupting a script or a time-consuming command doesn't work (anymore?)
> in the GUI.
> Ctrl-C works OK in the CLI. Easily checked with "demo plotyy" when it
> prompts for Enter.

Gah.  OK, I'll try to track this down.

jwe