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Just loaded 0.9.330 and the ability to select multiple instruments and copy information by double clicking a field and hitting enter seems to have disappeared. Has it?

Hi,

Are you running Snow Leopard? It seems to me that the way tables behave has changed. I'm not sure if this is a result of the operating system (10.6) or something that changed when the application was recompiled with XCode 3.2. I'm trying to find out.

It also seems to me that double-clicking in a table has changed. It used to be that you could double-click a cell anywhere. Now it seems that it has to be on the text(?!)

It is not just LXBeams that changed. LXConsole exhibits a similar change with double-clicking in the Cue Sheet.

UPDATE: These problems are changes in the table behavior provided by the AppKit on Snow Leopard.

There is a fix for the end edit problem which occurs when the displayed value does not change but the desired result is to transfer that value to multiple objects.

The double-click location is still under review to determine how that has changed.

Yes just upgraded to Snow Leopard. Which also incidentally brought about a screen failure on my MacBook Pro which was found to be a known fault with the NVIDIA chip and was replaced by Apple even though the machine was out of warranty.

There is now a workaround to the change in Snow Leopard where you had to click directly on the text to initiate editing in a table. This is implemented for the Inspector's tables. Reports, for now, have the default Snow Leopard behavior.

Now, in the Inspector, double clicking anywhere in a cell initiates editing. This is in addition to the Snow Leopard behavior where, if the row is selected, a single click on the text (not anywhere in the cell) will initiate editing.

This change affects only the 10.5+/Intel versions of LXFree and LXBeams that are running on Snow Leopard.

OK got that but not sure if you are addressing the right problem. I used to be able to select an instrument and then shift select additional instruments. In the inspector I could then double click a colour for example and then hit enter - the colour of the first selected instrument was then copied into the other instruments. Very useful for transferring a show onto another rig. This no longer works on my copy of LxBeams 0.9.3330 and I wish it did because I have just had to transfer a large opera rig using old fashioned cut and paste technology.

Sorry - did not realize you had already posted 0.9.3402. You are too fast - thanks.