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Motif and CDE 2.1 Style Guide Certification Checklist

Range Adjust Click Technique

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When the user is using the range adjust click technique, and the adjustment policy is to reselect:

  1. Determine the new selection region to be the range identified by the new anchor point and the adjustment point.

  2. Enlarge the new selection region to include the anchor region, if indicated by the anchor inclusion policy.

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    When the user is using the range adjust click technique, and the adjustment policy is to enlarge, make the new selection region the larger of the following:

    1. Current selection region

    2. The region determined by the reselect adjustment policy

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      When the user is using the range adjust click technique, and the adjustment policy is to balance:

      1. Move (if necessary) the anchor point so that it is at the end of the current selection region farthest from the adjustment point.

      2. Determine the new selection region to be the range identified by the new anchor point and the adjustment point.

      3. Enlarge the new selection region to include the anchor region, if the anchor point is unchanged and if indicated by the anchor inclusion policy.

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        If the current selection region did not include an anchor element or if the anchor element is no longer in the selection region, identify the anchor element to be the element, if any, at the end of the range nearest the anchor point.

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        After the user uses a mouse-based range adjust click technique, place the active cursor at one of the following:

        1. If it is a text cursor, at the point at which the ADJUST button is released

        2. If it is an element cursor, on the element at that end of the range

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