POV-Ray 3.5 Beta 8 Windows   Win98SE 128MB
When holding the Ctrl-Key and moving down a few marked lines of text by
Drag&Drop, there's a copy of the selected text. But instead the copy the
lines above are marked.

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"Felix Wiemann" <Fel### [at] gmxnet> wrote in message
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> POV-Ray 3.5 Beta 8 Windows   Win98SE 128MB
> When holding the Ctrl-Key and moving down a few marked lines of text by
> Drag&Drop, there's a copy of the selected text. But instead the copy the
> lines above are marked.

You say the "lines above" so maybe you're seeing something else happening
from what I see here.  But to clarify, if you go to drag'n'drop a selection
it will copy, or cut, and paste it depending on whether Ctrl key is used or
not.
The selection works as expected if you then press Ctrl C or Ctrl X, but I
think you're talking about the Ctrl plus left button mouse dragging not
taking only the columns of selected text and instead how it gathers
everything the way it does when not using Ctrl.

If it is wrong then it's likely only a CodeMax Editor problem, I'm not sure.
You can see what is possible in the POV-Win Help at section 1.6.4 Mouse.
But I think you are right, that it should drag'n'drop only the area
selected.  It could be the mouse driver or setting I guess, really don't
know.
Suggestion: to work around it just use Ctrl C, click on new position, and
Ctrl V.  You can still use Ctrl dragging to select columns.
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Von: "bob h" <omn### [at] charternet>
Newsgroups: povray.beta-test
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 12. Dezember 2001 00:26
Betreff: Re: Windows: Copying text by Drag&Drop

> But I think you are right, that it should
> drag'n'drop only the area selected.

No, no, it copies the selected area, but *after* copying the lines
above the copied lines are marked.
Write the following into the POV-Ray-editor (* lines are selected):

1
2 *
3 *
4 *
5
6
7
8
9
10

Hold Ctrl and drag'n'drop the selected lines with the mouse to the
begin of the 9th line. Now you see the following:

1
2
3
4
5
6 *
7 *
8 *
2  <--- these lines
3  <--- are copied but
4  <--- not marked
9
10

The lines 6 to 8 are marked, not the copied lines!

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Thanks, that clears things up a lot, for me anyway.

I see that happen too.  But also, like I said before, the column selection
method also grabs the entire line(s).

This is all about the CodeMax Editor so probably not likely to be fixable by
Chris Cason or someone with the POV-Team.  But that's for them to say.
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"Felix Wiemann" <Fel### [at] gmxnet> wrote in message
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> Von: "bob h" <omn### [at] charternet>
> Newsgroups: povray.beta-test
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 12. Dezember 2001 00:26
> Betreff: Re: Windows: Copying text by Drag&Drop
>
> > But I think you are right, that it should
> > drag'n'drop only the area selected.
>
> No, no, it copies the selected area, but *after* copying the lines
> above the copied lines are marked.
> Write the following into the POV-Ray-editor (* lines are selected):
>
> 1
> 2 *
> 3 *
> 4 *
> 5
> 6
> 7
> 8
> 9
> 10
>
> Hold Ctrl and drag'n'drop the selected lines with the mouse to the
> begin of the 9th line. Now you see the following:
>
> 1
> 2
> 3
> 4
> 5
> 6 *
> 7 *
> 8 *
> 2  <--- these lines
> 3  <--- are copied but
> 4  <--- not marked
> 9
> 10
>
> The lines 6 to 8 are marked, not the copied lines!
>
>

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