Annoying 'feature' - mouse click selects area rather than item

[Iain Carlin]

Hi,

In the desktop app, I frequently want to drag and drop a task from one context or folder to another.

If you click on a task then drag the mouse, it selects the task and whatever other tasks you happend to drag the mouse over.

Normally, I would expect that to work more like windows file explorer, where it would begin dragging the selected task.

To achieve that, it's necessary to click (i.e. select) the task, un-click the mouse, then click again and do the drag to move.

It's inconsistent with the way most other UI's operate.

Hoping it can be addressed in a future update.

Cheers,

Iain Carlin

[Richard Collings]

I would agree.   I have now got used to doing the click, release, click again to select but as you say,  Iain this is not consistent with how other UI’s work and is particularly annoying until you work out the work around.

 

The occasions on which I want to select multiple items in MLO are rare and when I do need to do it, I use Ctrl+Click or Shift+Click (which also work) to select the items.

 

So I would also vote to change this behaviour to make it consistent with Windows and other apps

 

Richard

 

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[dti...@gmail.com]

I've gotten accustomed to using move and arrow keys to avoid this.  

[Michael Emerald, CFA]

If you guys are talking about the Properties Pane, whereby you click once and, in my words, nothing happens, and then you click again to select the item…

 

I WANT TO BUY YOU ALL A BEER!

 

I’ve been complaining about this since when I had hair.

 

Take Care,

 

Michael Emerald, CFA

 

Performance Business Design

Owner, Business Strategy Consultant

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[Robin Lowenthal]

If you click the task in certain columns, such as "Flag" or "Effort", you only have to click once.

[Andrey Tkachuk (MLO)]

Hi Iain,

It is a side effect of "One click edit mode" switched ON by default in MLO. In this mode when you click the task title in the outline it switched to the edit mode without delay. It is helpful if you edit the title of the tasks frequently. 

If you switch this mode OFF you will get the behaviour you want with drag&drop:  Tools->Options->Behaviour 

Please let me know if it works as expected now. 

I am not sure if I can keep both modes active though. 

Thanks,

Andrey.

[Richard Collings]

Ah – thanks, Andrey.   Not noticed that.  

 

Have switched off One Click Mode and it looks like you now get the same behaviour as in Explorer

• One click to select and drag
• One click,  wait and click again to edit title
• Double click to jump to same task in other main view (if not a parent);  and collapse/expand children (if parent)

 

Initial reaction is that this is better for me but will report back after using for a while

 

Richard

 

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[Iain Carlin]

Hi Andrey,

Thanks for taking the time to respond.

I've just tried turning off "One click edit mode" as you suggested, but, unfortunately it hasn't made any difference.

It does mean that when I click an item it selects it in one click not two, however if I click on an unselected item and immediately drag it still selects all the items I drag over rather than moving the item that I 'selected' first.

If you need, I can create a demonstration video for you and upload it somewhere.

Cheers,

Iain

[Iain Carlin]

Hi again Andrey,

After my last message I went back and did some further testing. I can now see what is happening.

If I click and drag on the text of a task it works as expected. However, if I'm slightly off and I'm in the empty space between the task name and the next column, it will start selecting rows of tasks rather than moving the individual task.

To be fair, that's actually consistent with how windows explorer works so I haven't really got a leg to stand on. However, in my MLO there's a big gap between the columns so it's easy to forget that clicking white space isn't the same as clicking the task name:

Maybe you can look at it for future updates. (If I want to select multiple items, I naturally use a right click and drag over the items or hold down shift and click top and bottom). 

For the time being, turning off one-click to edit and I will need to remember to make sure I'm on the text to move items, gets me where I need to be.

Cheers,

Iain

On Wednesday, 30 August 2023 at 12:10:02 am UTC+9:30 Andrey Tkachuk (MLO) wrote:

[MLO Fan]

Thanks Andrey!

Now everything is good again (by de-selecting on-click edit mode).

Best