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<div>At 9:47 AM -0700 4/24/02, Ned Konz wrote:</div>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>I note in the recent 3.2 changes that the
Preference<br>
emptyDragStartsASelection has been removed.</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Why was this removed? I rather liked
it...</blockquote>
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<div>When I was straightening up preferences for 3.2g I found that
#emptyDragStartsASelection had no senders, and when I checked even as
far back as an image from 18 months ago, I found that the preference
was present in the Preferences panel but had no senders. </div>
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<div>So clearly this was a dead preference that had not been in use
for a very long time -- and a full-source search for it didn't even
reveal any commented-out code that mentioned it. So I felt safe
in removing it.</div>
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<div>But your query about this preference today made me curious enough
to track down the history here:</div>
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<div>It turns out that this preference got added in update 2660, but
got unhooked from any actual *use* in update 2664 -- and since both of
those updates were issued in same batch -- on 26 September 2000 --
there has never been a Squeak version in which the preference was
honored.</div>
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<div>This is from the preamble for update 2660SelectionTweaksPlus-di,
dated 19 September 2000:</div>
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<div><b>Introduces the Preference: #emptyDragStartsASelection which
determines whether selection shall be initiated by drag in the
background (default) or by world/pasteUp menu (if disabled).</b></div>
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<div>This is from the preamble for update 2664SelectionTweaksMinus-di,
dated 21 September 2000, i.e. *two days later*:</div>
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<div><b>Changes the convention for area selection once again, owing to
conflicts with other uses of mouseDown in PasteUpMorph. Now
shift-drag does selection both in the world and in playfields, and
there is no preference for disabling this.</b></div>
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<div> -- Scott</div>
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