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Re: Sliders and MouseDown

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From: Isabel Holdsworth
Date: Feb 28, 2019 3:17AM

Hi Steve,

Pressing ESC may not be an option for some pointer users, and I don't
think would be accepted as a sufficient technique for 2.5.2, which
seems to stipulate that it must be possible to cancel a DOWN event
using only the pointer.

I wish I knew whether or not this behaviour applies to sliders.

Cheers, Isabel

On 27/02/2019, Steve Green < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> That's a really good point. My (possibly incorrect) understanding is that
> your analysis is correct, and that there should be a way to cancel and
> return to the original slider position. However, I have not been able to
> find any example of a slider that has such a behaviour.
>
> I would not have thought that it would be too difficult to use the Escape
> key to do this, but I am not a developer so nothing looks difficult from my
> perspective.
>
> Steve Green
> Managing Director
> Test Partners Ltd
>
>
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