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Re: Problem with :disjoint selection type in *sequence-dialog-item*



> Date: Mon, 4 Feb 91 10:22:33 -0500
> From: Andrew L. M. Shalit <alms>
> 
>    Date: Mon, 4 Feb 1991 09:34-0500
>    From: Mark Nahabedian <naha@YUKON.SCRC.Symbolics.COM>
> 
>    I am having trouble getting disjoint selection to work in a list dialog
> 
> Someone reports this every month or so.  You only get disjoint
> selection if you hold down the command key when you click.  This isn't
> something MACL invented.  It's part of the list manager interface.
> (The list manager is the Mac ROM package which we use to implement
> tables.)

What makes this worse is that not all applications that have scrollable
lists work this way.  Some allow disjoint selection with just the shift
key, while others require the command key.  This certainly confused me.
I imagine some applications use the list manager and others are faking
it and not getting it quite right (or maybe they think they are improving
it).  Certainly this isn't MACL's fault!