List of Selected Items Window

List of Selected Items Window


The "List of Selected Items" window first appears as simply a blank window. During its creation several bindings are made to various mouse buttons when the focus is in a specific window. Since the "List of Selected Items" window can be associated with ANY listbox and has to operate closely with the parent window in which that listbox is contained, the mouse bindings which are defined allow the two listbox's (the one in the "List of Selected Items" window, and the one in the calling window) to be intimately associated.

It is important for the user to realize that while in the following example we are talking about the "File selection window" the SAME mouse bindings are made in ANY window which calls this procedure, and the listbox associated with this window is the listbox in the calling window.

For conveniences sake we will assume that the "List of Selected Items" window is associated with the "File selection window". So when the "List of Selected Items" window is first created it binds the right-most-mouse-button (from the calling listbox) to populate the "List of Selected Items" window. Thus if in the "File selection" window the user points at a file, and presses the right-most-mouse-button the name of the file will appear in the "List of Selected Items" window. (See below.)


We see that the full path has been prepended to the filename that was selected - please note that the left-most-mouse-button in the "File selection" window remains associated ONLY with the "File selection" window, and only when the right-most-mouse-button is pressed in the "File selection" window, does the filename get added to the "List of Selected Items" window. (Note the the user can also keep this button depressed and drag the cursor to select multiple files - they are added upon release of the button.) If the user wished to remove an item from the "List of Selected Items" window, all that is necessary is to press the left-most-mouse-button when over the item that is wished to be removed. (Note that the user can also keep this button depressed and drag the cursor to de-select multiple files - they will be removed upon release of the button.)

Thus the user can creat a list of items (in the above case these items are filenames and their associated paths).

Once the user has a list of selected items then the user can turn to the Menubottons which are available to manipulate this list.


The File menu:

If the user selects the File menu the following will be displayed:


We see here that there are two options that can be selected.

The Help menu:

If the user selects the Help menu the following list of options will be presented:



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Brian K. Elza
Last modified: Mon Jul 28 14:48:01 EDT