# Double-click sometimes quits working in XOD

**URL:** <https://forum.xod.io/t/double-click-sometimes-quits-working-in-xod/517>\
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**Created:** [February 19, 2018, 4:32pm UTC](https://forum.xod.io/t/double-click-sometimes-quits-working-in-xod/517 "2018-02-19T16:32:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![gweimer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a9adbd/32.png) [@gweimer](https://forum.xod.io/u/gweimer)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2018, 4:32pm UTC](https://forum.xod.io/t/double-click-sometimes-quits-working-in-xod/517/1 "2018-02-19T16:32:31Z")

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This has happened a couple times over the past several months, but today I can’t get C++ code opened on 2 patches before double-click quits working. I can go to my desktop & double-click to open items, but double-click doesn’t work in XOD. If I exit & restart XOD, it will work a couple times, then quits working again.

Double-click still seems to work in Project Navigation, but not in the workspace.

I can use “i” to insert (search for) nodes. Is there a keyboard short-cut for opening not-implemented-in-xod to edit C++ code when double-click isn’t working?

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**Author:** ![nkrkv](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.xod.io/nkrkv/32/8_2.png) [@nkrkv](https://forum.xod.io/u/nkrkv)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2018, 10:00am UTC](https://forum.xod.io/t/double-click-sometimes-quits-working-in-xod/517/2 "2018-02-20T10:00:21Z")

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Definitely a bug. But I’m not able to reproduce it. I remember I saw similar behavior on my colleague PC a couple of times. Close/open helped and the bug did not appear for a long time. If you able to catch a reproducible (on your PC) scenario to break the double-click, that will be super-helpful.

BTW, does the bug appear in the browser-version?

@evgenykochetkov @brusher_ru Did you ever saw something like this? Do we have any facilities to trap mouse events live?

> [@gweimer](#):
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> Is there a keyboard short-cut for opening not-implemented-in-xod to edit C++ code when double-click isn’t working?

Not yet. Do you think “Enter” is a good idea? Seems intuitive enough, but ambiguous if multiple entities selected.

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**Author:** ![gweimer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a9adbd/32.png) [@gweimer](https://forum.xod.io/u/gweimer)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2018, 4:07pm UTC](https://forum.xod.io/t/double-click-sometimes-quits-working-in-xod/517/3 "2018-02-20T16:07:10Z")

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I could not detect any pattern. Sometimes on restart I could open several items before double-click quit working; other times I couldn’t get the 1st item open without closing XOD and doing something else for a while. Later in the day, double-click started working normally again.

“Enter” to open an item would work. You could even use Ctl-Enter if you want to hide it a little. For multiple entries selected, you could just open them all.

“open” would be a good option to add to the right-click menu for items if that ever gets added.