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Double-click bug with desktop Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.

Michael Friedli

I installed the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on my PC today and if it is running at the same time as Studio, the following occurs:

Whenever I double-click on a word (source or target side) in Editor, it automatically copies source to target, deleting any translated content! Fortunately Undo puts it back.

I shut down SOED and this behaviour stopped.

Just in case anyone else has come across this.

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  • Hi Michael,

    Thank you for sharing this experience. If the SOED doesn't have customisable keyboard shortcuts I wonder if you can change the copy source to target shortcut in Studio? Just curious. Maybe the double click for the SOED has the same shortcut assigned?

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    Paul Filkin | RWS Group

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  • in reply to Paul

    Hi Paul,

    I think I found the answer in the SOED settings:

    I disabled the two check boxes and the behaviour stopped. I suspect it was the "Look up words from other applications" function that was doing it.

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  • in reply to Michael Friedli
    Good find... useful to remember that one. It would still be interesting to see if changing the shortcuts in Studio could help though because this way you can't use your SOED to look up words automatically. Might be nice if you could.

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    Paul Filkin | RWS Group

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  • in reply to Paul
    Hi Paul,
    I have been playing around with the various options in both Studio and the SOED:
    With "Look up words from other applications" enabled in the SOED, double clicking a target word in Studio copies source to target.
    Doing the same in Word has the intended effect, i.e. it looks up that Word in the SOED, which is not bad, given that I am using Word 2016, and the SOED dates back to 2007! (It is compatible with Microsoft® Windows®Vista, Windows® XP, Windows® Server™2003, or Windows 2000...)
    The relevant section in the SOED manual reads:
    3.4 How do I look up a word from another application?
    If you are using Windows®, double-click on the word you want. If you are working
    on a Macintosh, copy your word to the Clipboard ("apple" + C). The Dictionary
    automatically searches for your word in the All-forms list.
    Looking at the keyboard short-cut settings in Studio, "Copy Source to Target" was set to Ctrl+Ins, Alt+Ins. I deleted both and it stopped copying source to target when I double-clicked a word in target. It did it again when I set it to Ctrl+Ins, but not with Alt+Ins, so I have left it with Alt+Ins (which is the short-cut I use anyway). However, it does not interact with the SOED in the way the Office 2016 applications do (I tried it in Word, Excel and PowerPoint and it works in all three).
    Any thoughts?