Keyboard control of multiselect List

[wilfranz]

Hello friends,

I'm trying to set up a listbox with multiselect which will operate equally well with either keyboard only or mouse selections. I have run into one obstacle.

Mouse operations are fine, and just as expected, including block selects, i.e. all adjacent items (Shift+Click) and individual multiselects, i.e. more than one non-adjacent items (Ctrl+Click).

But with keyboard I haven't figured out how to do a multiselect for individual choices which are not in a block.

E.g... A block select works with 1) Enter (C/R) which places an initial single selected item; then 2) Shift+Down Arrow (or Up Arrow) which selects each adjacent file, in a block. So far so good.

But trying to do a series of selects on non-adjacent items on the list does not work with the intuitive try of Ctrl+DownArrow.

Is this possible with keypress only?

TIA

wilfranz

 

[Olaf Doschke]

Use CTRL+SPACE to mark an item, and the pure Arrow keys for navigating between items.

Bye, Olaf.

 

[wilfranz]

Thanks very much, Olaf. That is exactly what I needed.

Best wishes.
Bill