{"id":1483,"date":"2014-03-18T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2014\/03\/18\/why-do-i-have-to-hit-an-arrow-key-before-a-keyboard-initiated-move-operation-will-follow-the-mouse\/"},"modified":"2014-03-18T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T07:00:00","slug":"why-do-i-have-to-hit-an-arrow-key-before-a-keyboard-initiated-move-operation-will-follow-the-mouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20140318-00\/?p=1483","title":{"rendered":"Why do I have to hit an arrow key before a keyboard-initiated Move operation will follow the mouse?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TehShrike wonders <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2012\/10\/11\/10358482.aspx#10358958\"> why you have to hit an arrow key before a keyboard-initiated Move operation will follow the mouse<\/a>.\n I don&#8217;t know, but I think it&#8217;s just a bug. Mind you, it&#8217;s a bug with extraordinary seniority (probably going as far back as Windows&nbsp;1.0).<\/p>\n<p> The Move and Size commands from the system menu are operated by the same common function, and the keyboard-initiated Size command requires you to hit an arrow in order to specify which edge you are trying to resize. The Move command doesn&#8217;t need to let you pick a side (since moving is independent of sides), but the common helper function waits for the arrow key regardless of the underlying operation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TehShrike wonders why you have to hit an arrow key before a keyboard-initiated Move operation will follow the mouse. I don&#8217;t know, but I think it&#8217;s just a bug. Mind you, it&#8217;s a bug with extraordinary seniority (probably going as far back as Windows&nbsp;1.0). The Move and Size commands from the system menu are operated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-1483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>TehShrike wonders why you have to hit an arrow key before a keyboard-initiated Move operation will follow the mouse. I don&#8217;t know, but I think it&#8217;s just a bug. Mind you, it&#8217;s a bug with extraordinary seniority (probably going as far back as Windows&nbsp;1.0). The Move and Size commands from the system menu are operated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}