RGBA IOBox doubleclick selection troubles

[motzi]

in gamma 7 (stable), when you doubleclick the text in a RGBA IOBox (i.e. Color IOBox), it will only select the text after the doubleclick position.

this is quite annoying as you cannot just doubleclick and type a colorname, but have to do a select all (e.g. CTRL+A) too for a total selection.

behaviour in gamma 6.7 was still working as expected.

[tgd]

thats a thing with all types of ioboxes lately. super annoying. to select everything you need to double click really slow, then it works as expected.

[lasal]

IO-Box double click selection problem

Hi Guys, since a couple of preview versions I’m struggling with the double click behavior in the IO-Box, not only in the field but also in the label. Basically I’m not able to select the whole field ussing double click, it only works once when I enter in field selection mode for the first time, but after that it doesn’t work. Also the Label doesn’t show any feedback when it’s selected. Hard to explain & easy to see. [callmenames-2025-10-14-Application_2025.10.14-20.34.07] [callmenames-2025…

[Elias]

Upcoming preview should behave better in that regard:

• Mouse move will only alter current selection if a mouse down was received first
• Double click will only select a single word in multi-line text. For all other cases (values, colors, labels) it will select the whole text.
• Selection from a double click should no longer get lost after moving the mouse a bit in the second down event

[tgd]

@Elias

Double click will only select a single word in multi-line text. For all other cases (values, colors, labels) it will select the whole text.

Since there is kind of 2 states to a string iobox and the behaviour is bit different:

1. just focused/selected
2. in edit mode (cursor blinking)

At which state is this new behaviour? I fear there is no way then to quickly select all the text? could we have like a triple click then to select all, like it is common in various other software?
I mean beside CTRL-A in edit mode

[motzi]

@tgd

could we have like a triple click then to select all, like it is common in various other software?

remember the five clicks of Quark Express?
;)

A double-click selects the word containing the text insertion point; a triple-click selects the line containing the text insertion point; four clicks selects the entire paragraph containing the text insertion point; five clicks selects the entire story.