Please consider adding a modifier key with click for rating change.
Or provide us with an option to add the modifier key, as is possible in Photoshop.
Once I had hundreds of photos selected to drag into another file, but I clicked near the bottom and changed all the ratings to 1 star.
At that point I really could have used an UNDO option, like Microsoft Word.
Either option -- modifier key or undo --would be solutions to this time waster.
(This happened on a Apple Powerbook G4 with Panther 10.3.9, but could happen on a PC as well.)
Holly,
The Option modifier already exist as a Preference although it doesn't apply if using the mouse which is what you appear to be doing. Forcing the modifier on mouse users would defeat the purpose of the mouse and therefore I doubt that it would find widespread favor. As for Undo, well that already exists in the form of Cmd/Ctrl+Z just like Photoshop.
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Thanks for any help!
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Using scroll wheel with modifier key to zoom out is not working
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Since Mavericks, the scroll-with-modifier-key-to-zoom functionality often fails, and I have to deselect it and reselect it in the accessibility pref-pane to get it working again.
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modifiersEx is 0
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apple.awt.SelectionMouseEvent[MOUSE_PRESSED,(231,5),absolute(233,67),button=1,
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modifiersEx is 0
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apple.awt.SelectionMouseEvent[MOUSE_PRESSED,(202,3),absolute(204,65),button=1,
modifiers=⌘+Button1+Button3,clickCount=2] on javax.swing.JTable[...]As you can see, despite the fact that modifier keys are being printed out by the toString() call (⌥ and ⌘ are the alt/option and apple keys, respectively), I get no indication from getModifers() or getModifiersEx() that they are down!!!
Can anyone help me see through this confusing mess?Walter Laan wrote:
Read the friendly manual. It explicitly tells you not to use == to check stuff and it should be pretty clear that it won't be zero for a mouse button down event.Good point, and I ought to have been more clear in my OP. I initially wrote it as they suggest, but found that wasn't working either. (This was work that I did in two parts with a gap of a couple of months in between, so I'd forgotten that I had tried that.) However, the return values from getModifiers() and getModifersEx(), in my output statements, shows that there are no modifier bits set -- so no point testing for them:
* When I double-clicked with the alt/option key down, getModifiers() gave me 24, which is simply BUTTON_1_MASK + BUTTON_3_MASK (which isn't even correct -- I was only using the left mouse button).
* When instead I held the apple key down, getModifers() gave me 20, which is BUTTON_1_MASK + BUTTON_2_MASK (also not correct -- again I was only using the left button).
* getModifiersEx() in both cases gave me 0.
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I've tried to reset default on the modifier key section but it just doesn't work... This is really frustrating. the only thing i remember installing lately is "bettertouchtool" and buying a magic mouse.
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