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  • April 26, 2019
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dellerbeck
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On a Mac, and only in FME 2019, if you right click and the mouse moves at all the first select of the dialog is picked. This is using a MagicMouse and I have gone through all forums (Mac and Safe) to see if there was some kind of fix. This was an issue before but appeared to have been fixed in 2018.1 but has now come back causing a lot of accidental cutting deleting inspecting. I have a VM on the same machine running in Windows and do not have the same issue.


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redgeographics
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FWIW: I'm using a Mac too, with a Wacom tablet instead of a mouse, and I'm not seeing this behaviour.

FME rocks! \m/
rylanatsafe
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Using macOS 10.14.4 and 2019.0 Build 19246, I do not experience this issue.

Tested with Trackpad and Logitech G602.

This may be an issue with the Magic Mouse... @dellerbeck - I would suggest contacting Safe Support, as I suspect this could be a bug.

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  • royce24
  • December 21, 2020

In OS X, isn't it default behavior that, if you let go of the right mouse button over an option, it is selected (the context menu appears when it's pressed down)? You might be accidentally moving your mouse a bit between pressing and releasing the right mouse button.

If it's the case, it might be possible to turn this off. If not, you'd maybe want to start holding right mouse button when using context menus

 

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tomf
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  • January 7, 2021

Tested with OS 15.7 and FME 2019 (b19825) using a Logitech MX Anywhere mouse I do not see this issue. However, I have experienced it on rare occasions with other software (I can't quite remember which just now) that to use the the option menu required the right mouse button to be held down until selection made - not the usual OS X default behaviour in my experience - which is extremely annoying.

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