LabVIEW Idea Exchange

cancel
Showing results for 
Search instead for 
Did you mean: 
Neil.Pate

decrease mouse CTRL (to copy) timeout

Status: Declined

Any idea that has received less than 3 kudos within 3 years after posting will be automatically declined.

OK, so the subject title is not really conveying what I want. It will be easier to describe with an example:

 

I use the CTRL+click_drag_release to copy LV objects ALL the time. Really, ALL the time.

 

At least 10 times per day,  I seem to end up relocating my original object instead of making a copy of it. This of course breaks the wires associated with the original object etc etc and immediately calls for a CTRL-Z! Same problem on the FP, I end up moving the original control instead of copying it.

 

This is probably happening because I am releasing the mouse button too soon.

 

Now I use this technique in a variety of other packages (Visio etc), and the exact same physical behaviour from myself very seldom results in a moved object, it is 99% of the time a copy.

 

In LV it seems you have to pause for a fraction of a second before letting go of the mouse button (while still holding CTRL). 

 

What I would like is for the time between releasing the mouse button and the CTRL to be decreased (or settable somewhere for obsessive compulsive's like myself).

 

This may seem like a stupid, totally trivial request, but it really breaks work flow having to reach for CTRL-z when it hasn't worked, and waiting for the object to be dropped seems to also break my work flow.

2 Comments
RoyA
Member
Not sure what your sequence of actions is, but I literally could NOT get it to move an object without copying it except by click-drag-release-CTRL!  I tried click-CTRL-drag-release, CTRL-click-drag-release, click-drag-CTRL-release, etc.  Every combination I could think of.  As long as 'CTRL' happened some time before 'release' the object was copied, not moved.  What is your sequence of actions?
Darren
Proven Zealot
Status changed to: Declined

Any idea that has received less than 3 kudos within 3 years after posting will be automatically declined.