Forums Bug Reports mIRC Script Editor UI Bug

Double clicking on a word in the script editor causes the word to be selected.

Double clicking on a word ending with a ' character causes the ' to be selected instead of the word.

Ie: paste the following string into the script editor:
test 'foo bar'
next, double click on the word bar.

Confirmed in:
6.16
6.17

Thanks,
flurdoing
[email]flur@_nospam_d1f.org[/email]

Also confirmed in 6.2

This is probably designed ctrl-left/ctrl-right/auto-select behavior. I think quite a number of interfaces to scripting/programming languages will treat non-alphanumeric sequences as a 'word-change' or 'seperate-word' where as else where words are seperated only by spaces.

if ($2 >= 332)
significant number of programming interfaces or advanced test editors...
1. "if "
2. "($"
3. "2 "
4. ">= "
5. "332"
6. ")"

things like notepage and explorer...
1. "if "
2. "($2 "
3. ">= "
4. "332)"

A few would even seperate a ( from the $

I understand your point, but I don't think I agree.

If mIRC was selecting the word that I click on as well as the non alphanumeric, it would be understandable. It just doesn't make any sense to not select a word that i've double clicked on-- very counter-intuitive, and most definitely not a standard (try it in notepad!)

mIRC does not control the behaviour of the editbox in the script editor, highlighting of text is completely dependent on the Windows richedit editbox. This appears to be purposeful richedit behaviour, since it behaves differently if a " is used, though I'm not sure of the reasoning behind it.