Right-click function not working as advertised

[Felix is our king!]

I am using a 2006 league that I converted in midseason (yeah, bad idea), but I don't think that this matters in this case.

In 2007, go to any list (say a team roster), click on a player name. The player page will have what the help file describes as "quick-flicks" (see the Interface and Controls page) in the upper right hand corner. This allows you to scroll through the players without going back to the roster screen. Click on a Quick-Flick to open the next player's page.

In all previous versions of OOTP, if you right clicked while looking at this new player page, you were taken back to the original list (in our example the roster screen).

In 2007, this now takes you to the previous player page you were looking at.

Summary:
1. Go to Seattle roster page.
2. Click on F. Hernandez to go to player page.
3. Click on Quick-Flick to go to H. Ramirez player page.

OLD OOTP:
4. Right click to move back to Seattle roster page.

OOTP 2007
4. Right click moves you back to F. Hernandez player page.

The relevant part of the help file:

The right-click button has one other important function, called quick return. On most pages, right-clicking in an area of the page without a hyperlink returns you to the previous page. For example, if you delve from the Roster into a specific Player Profile, right-clicking on the Player Profile page will send you back to the Roster page.

This makes it a pain when you have been using many quick flicks. I have ended up holding down my right mouse button for 10 seconds until I'm back at the original list.

[An Aside: I don't post very much on these boards, but if I have interface suggestions/feature requests for 2007, do I post them here?]

[bp_]

Hmmm, I think this is working as advertised. The right-click does move you back one page. When you "quick-flick" through the player pages you are doing just that - moving page to page. So, the right click moves you back one at a time.

Unless I am not reading something right from your post?

[Curtis]

He's thinking that this: "For example, if you delve from the Roster into a specific Player Profile, right-clicking on the Player Profile page will send you back to the Roster page." means that ANYTIME you right-click on any Player Profile page it will send you back to the roster page.

What it probably means is that it will send you back a page, and if your previous page was the roster page, it will send you there.

This could warrant a TT, but it would be for that Manual entry to be rewritten to not be misleading (sorry, Steve).

[Felix is our king!]

Yeah, for those not clear, pre-2007 versions of OOTP sent the user back to the roster page (or whatever list it was), whenever you right-clicked.

In OOTP 2007, a right-click takes you back to the previous page.

I prefer the older method. For example, when you bring up a long list, and go through it using the "quick-clicks", being able to go right back to the list is wonderful. If I wanted to go back to the player page I was just on, I'd hit the "quick-click".

I'm just wondering if this was a concious design change, or a mistake that could be fixed in a patch. I'm not sure why it would be changed. It removes options for the user -- pre-2k7 you could go to three pages in a single click; forward in the list; backwards; and back to the list. Now it's just two.

[Curtis]

I'm guessing this happened as a side effect when they removed the second set of 'back/forth' arrows, which could also take you back to the roster page. Possibly those functions were linked?