Double-Clicking fails to select text

I'm using a mighty mouse (not wireless) with my MacBook Pro. I just purchased it used ... and so I don't know if this ever worked. The standard method of selecting a word of text is to place the I-bar anywhere in the word and double click. Mine doesn't select. A single click does place the I-bar, and I can click and drag ... but I really miss the convenience of double-click to select a whole word. Is there some way to enable this?

what you are saying is that, no matter how fast you double click in a word (for example here in the forum page) you can't get it to select the fill word is that it?
If it is, that is normal, all you need to do is go to the Mouse settings and change the Double Click Speed to a Slower speed (I have in the 4th point counting from the fastest)
System preferences > Keyboard & Mouse > Mouse
Hope it helps

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This is a bit of a trivial problem but it's making my editing quite difficult. I'm using Acrobat X 10, with Windows 7.
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I am on the beta update channel and currently using FF 8.0, latest update as of the moment of this posting.
I am not sure when it happened - I think since I started using 8.0 - but double-click no longer selects a whole word. It's the same effect as a single click - simply positions the insertion point where the mouse cursor is located.
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Or is it some configuration issue? Or conflict with something else? I've searched and not (yet) found any other complaints about this issue from other users.
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Best,
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Now that I've turned off that option, double-click in FF8 is back to the way it's supposed to work for quickly selecting a whole word or sentence.
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Ok.
So frustrating...I haven't been able to find a solution to this anywhere online.
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de_fault, please send a complaint to Adobe otherwise they won't fix it:
Adobe - Feature Request/Bug Report Form
Problem description: When switching from the Selection tool to the Text tool (by double-clicking in a text box) there is a 1-2 second delay before you can select text.
Steps to reproduce bug:
1. Make a text box and fill with text
2. Select the Selection tool (V)
3. Double-click in the text box so that you see a cursor
4. Immediately try to select text
Results: You have to wait 1-2 seconds before you can select text.
Expected results: There should not be a delay. There was no delay in previous versions.

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Hi,
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Praba.

Hi Prabhavathi,
Here is how you handle double click events in Textedit control.
1)Create a custom control in screen (say TEXT_CONTROL)
2)In main program,
a) Declarations:
data: obj type ref to cl_gui_custiom_control.
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b) Create the instance of custom container
c) Create the instance of textedit control.
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class shail_event definition.
public section.
methods:
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class shail_event implementation.
method handle_doubleclick .
here do the coding for handling the double click.
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DATA: i_events TYPE cntl_simple_events,
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wa_events-appl_event = 'X'. "This is an application event
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        cntl_system_error         = 2
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* https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Firewalls

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Thanks Timo for your response. I am seeing this odd behavior when using pageflowscope managed bean.
1). I have a page (part of unbounded taskflow) that has commandlink which invokes a task flow as dialog (inline-popup):
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<jsp:root xmlns:jsp="http://java.sun.com/JSP/Page" version="2.1"
xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
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<jsp:root xmlns:jsp="http://java.sun.com/JSP/Page" version="2.1"
xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
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<jsp:directive.page contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8"/>
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clientComponent="true" binding="#{TestdblClick.contactTable}"
emptyText="no data" columnStretching="last">
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method="#{TestdblClick.doubleClick}"/>
<af:clientListener method="singlelkfunction" type="selection"/>
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method="#{TestdblClick.singleClick}"/>
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rowHeader="unstyled">
<af:outputText value="#{row.col1}" id="ot1"/>
</af:column>
<af:column sortable="false" headerText="Col2" align="start" id="c2">
<af:outputText value="#{row.col2}" id="ot3"/>
</af:column>
<af:column sortable="false" headerText="Col3" align="start" id="c1">
<af:outputText value="#{row.col3}" id="ot2"/>
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AdfCustomEvent.queue(source, "doubleClickOnRow",
},false);
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var source = event.getSource();
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false);
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</f:facet>
</af:document>
</f:view>
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====================
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Hi , I'm Cristian , this my first post , i need to do something that's going me mad.
I need to trap the double-click event in a text field (ekko-sumbi , exactly) in the header of the purchase order , i searched for exits (MM06E005,M06E0005,LMEKO001,etc) , but no luck , nothing on double click , also tried badis ( ME_GUI_PO_CUST , ME_PO_SC_SRV , ME_HOLD_PO , ME_PROCESS_PO_CUST) , no luck either.
Any help please ???
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Hi Cristian,
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APEX 4.1
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Okay I've solved this, or at least I've provided a solution to this particular problem on my "real" app - will amend the test case accordingly in due course but thought I'd share it on this thread anyway.
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This doesn't answer your original question, so if you're determined to use d-clicks on a JButton, don't bother reading further.
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Sounds like you have somehow clicked on the *Date Played* column to sort everything.
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HTH,
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