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From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb AT ukf DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Setup.exe problem: double-click selects wrong version
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 16:29:03 -0000
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Fred Kulack wrote:
>> I think double-click should work as one single click in this case,
>> because the user gets no feedback that he've done something other than
>> he wanted to.
>
> I think that's a perfectly reasonable argument to have.
>
> If its important to the maintainers, we'll get indication of that now that
> it has been posed here.
>
> If its important to you, I suspect that patches to setup to make it
> accept a double click operation would probably be thoughtfully considered
> by the maintainers.

Why should setup be any different from other applications?

Can anyone quote any existing single-clickable UI components that 
de-duplicate double clicks?

Max.


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