Selecting Blocks with Scrolling
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Nigel Ashworth
I can't select a long section of a document because when I click and drag across multiple blocks, the selection is not maintained as the page scrolls up or down.
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Luca Joos
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Steffen Bleher
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This is part of the latest release. Read more here: https://capacities.io/whats-new.
Thanks for your help :)
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Derek P
Steffen Bleher: This is not fixed. I doubled checked to make sure my Capacities app was updated (and I also tried this on the web app) and I'm still having the same problem with long texts.
Sample video I just took is here:
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Osman Gormus
Steffen Bleher: I too still experience this issue. I don't agree that it is fixed yet. There are quite a few similar feedback also shared as new threads. Please re-open this issue.
Jason Brewster captured the problem I'm experiencing perfectly. Please find the thread from Feb 2nd, 2023. This is their link, hopefully it is okay to re-share: https://www.loom.com/share/b133cf49ed2742a6bb5e13369573b5ae
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Osman Gormus
A humble suggestion: The selection should occur for the "rendered" content, not while the editor in the blocks/editing mode.
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Derek P
Would love to see this prioritized. It's very difficult working with large bodies of text. The text selection is super buggy. Sometimes I get individual text, sometimes I get the whole block. As someone pointed out below with their Loom video, selecting elements off screen by scrolling is impossible.
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Glasco Martin
100% agree with this, disrupts my work flow & have to figure out ways to grab all of my text
Steffen Bleher
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I agree. but I also do believe this is actually a special sub-case of a larger issue; which is text-selection across blocks / paragraphs is still unintuitive / frictious (compared to established standards / behaviors).
at least I find myself regularly bumping into unexpected / irritating 'blocks' when trying to select multiple blocks by 'conventional' methods (mouse selection; shortcuts etc.)
to see the larger pattern here, see also at other issues posted, like:
... I think the same question is referenced in some more place still.
so, scroll-selecting would be an improvement; but maybe not stop there...?! :-)
Steffen Bleher
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Steffen Bleher
Thanks for sharing. Could you provide more details? Are you trying to drag blocks of text? Which browser are you using?
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Jennifer Good
Steffen Bleher: Dragging blocks of text is fine, the problem is selecting a subset of words within a block of text. For example, if the block contains "My name is Jennifer" I can only select the entire block, not just "Jennifer" or "name is". I am using Safari.
Steffen Bleher
Jennifer Good: This seems to be unusual. So you are not able to do that?
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Jennifer Good
Steffen Bleher: actually, I realized I can double click and select a single word, but I can't click and drag to select more than one word (unless I select the whole block by clicking on the dots next to the block)
Steffen Bleher
Jennifer Good: Ok this is clearly a bug. We'll look into it. Could you maybe quickly check if deactivating your browser extensions solves this problem?
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Jennifer Good
Steffen Bleher: Hi Steffen, sorry for the late reply. I deactivated my only extension (Adblock Pro 10.1.9) and this did not solved the problem.
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Jason Brewster
michael_v_h: I'd like to see this one re-opened. I still have an issue with selecting beyond what's visible in the UI on longer documents. I wonder if a later change has broken the fix?
Steffen Bleher
Jason Brewster: Just reopened it, thanks for sharing.
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Jason Brewster
Steffen Bleher: Here's my experience of using the mouse to select blocks 'below the fold'. I'm simply clicking in a block and moving the mouse down. : https://www.loom.com/share/b133cf49ed2742a6bb5e13369573b5ae
Steffen Bleher
Jason Brewster: Thanks for sharing. That's really helpful. We'll look into it.
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