sticky cursors

[Ray Horsley]

on 8/9/02 12:21 PM, Ray G. Miller at rgmiller at pacbell.net wrote:

> Listers,
> Anyone else notice the "sticky" cursors?
> 
> When moving from a text field to a button or scrollbar the cursor
> remains an I-beam.  I'm not setting the cursor at any point.
> 
> I'm running MC 2.4.3 on a G4 in classic (9.2.2)
> 
> This should go the bug report in MetaCard, but I can't seem to find the
> address at "www.metacard.com" site.
> 
> On another small matter: besides its unreadablity, is there any
> advantage using:
> 
> put url "file: myGreatStuffPath.txt" into field 1
> 
> instead of:
> 
> open file "myGreatStuffPath.txt"
> read file "myGreatStuffPath.txt" until eof
> close file "myGreatStuffPath.txt"
> 
> The latter admittedly takes three lines of code, but you can see that
> you are READING the data, and not WRITING the data.
> 
> Ray 
> 
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Yes!

I get sticky cursors all the time.  It usually ends up on an I-beam when it
should be the finger.

Please post what you find out.


Thanks,


Ray Horsley
Developer, LinkIt! Software