Feature request: Results double-clickable

ozBob · January 2020

The title says it all.

Just like in the query/code section I would like double click VS behaviour (or even triple click VS behaviour)

1 double click to select the /w
2 triple click to select between the last /n and the next /n

Is there another forum to post feature requests? github? can we contribute to the code base? or write an extension?

JoeAlbahari · January 2020

This is a bug in the WebBrowser control that Microsoft refuse to fix. I've spent hours exploring various workarounds, but none of them are reliable.

ozBob · June 2020

I've read about it here: https://forum.linqpad.net/discussion/comment/1880?

Maybe now with crEdge being popular and WebView2 being available there are more options?

https://linqpad.uservoice.com/forums/18302-linqpad-feature-suggestions/suggestions/3860459-select-highlight-text-in-the-rich-text-results-p

JoeAlbahari · June 2020

The JS suggestion on that thread seems to work. If you'd like to test it more, add the following code to your My Extensions query in LINQPad 6:

public class Fix
{
    public static void Doubleclick()
    {
        Util.HtmlHead.AddScript (@"// function to get mouse position relative to the container
var getMousePosition = function (container, mouseEvent) {
    var currentObject = container;
    var currentLeft = 0;
    var currentTop = 0;
    while (currentObject != document.body) {
        currentLeft += currentObject.offsetLeft;
        currentTop += currentObject.offsetTop;
        currentObject = currentObject.offsetParent;
    }
    return {
        x: mouseEvent.pageX - currentLeft,
        y: mouseEvent.pageY - currentTop
    }
}

var clickCounter;
var clickPosition;
var resetClick = function () {
    clickCounter = 0;
    clickPosition = {
        x: null,
        y: null
    };
};
resetClick();
var clickTimer;

// function to wait for the next click, and reset click details if time elapses
var conserveClick = function (mousePosition) {
    clickPosition = mousePosition;
    clearTimeout(clickTimer);
    clickTimer = setTimeout(resetClick, 250); // NOTE: that this does mean that the double click speed is defined by the javascript, NOT the system settings...
    clickCounter++;
};

var findClickedText = function (parentElement, x, y, paragraph) {
    var range = document.createRange();
    for (var child = 0; child < parentElement.childNodes.length; child++) {
        var textElement = parentElement.childNodes[child];

        var texts = paragraph ? [textElement.textContent] : textElement.textContent.split(/\W/);
        var start = 0;
        for (var index in texts) {
            var check = texts[index];
            var end = start + check.length;
            range.setStart(textElement, start);
            range.setEnd(textElement, end);
            var rects = range.getClientRects(); // don't use getBoundingClientRect as text could wrap
            var clickedRect = isClickInRects(rects);
            if (clickedRect) {
                return [check, start, clickedRect, range, textElement];
            }
            start = end + 1;
        }
    }

    function isClickInRects (rects) {
        for (var index in rects) {
            var rect = rects[index];
            if (rect.left < x && rect.right > x && rect.top < y && rect.bottom > y) {            
                return rect;
            }
        }
        return false;
    }
    return null;
};

var selectTextAtPosition = function (all, position) {
    var element = document.elementFromPoint(position.x, position.y);
    var result = findClickedText(element, position.x, position.y, all);
    if (result != null) {
        var selection = window.getSelection();
        selection.removeAllRanges();
        selection.addRange(result[3]);
    }
};

document.body.addEventListener('click', function (event) {

    // get the current mouse position
    var mousePosition = getMousePosition(document.body, event);

    // if first click or position has not changed
    if (clickCounter == 0 || (clickPosition.x == mousePosition.x && clickPosition.y == mousePosition.y)) {
        conserveClick(mousePosition);

        if (clickCounter > 1 && clickCounter < 4)
            selectTextAtPosition(clickCounter == 3, clickPosition);
    }
});");
    }
}

To activate in a query, add this to the start:

Fix.Doubleclick();

Let me know if you run into any problems. I can look into make this the default if I know it won't cause issues.

Feature request: Results double-clickable

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