Invisible insertion point in field

[Stephen Barncard]

>
>I've seen rare cases of images becoming corrupted, but never a field.
>  Richard Gaskin

This has happened to me several times -- usually the problem is the 
insertion point missing or I am unable to enter or change text in the 
field.

I've been experimenting with some "object creation from text" 
routines, where I get all the properties of an object, arrange as 
tabbed/return text (with adjustments for the imbedded returns in some 
of the data), store the description info in a custom property, then 
recreate the object anew with the CREATE command, turn the property 
into an array, and finally apply the array to the new object. I have 
not extended this into groups yet, but seems not to hard to do.

I guess that could be fashioned into a 'biofilter' for errant objects.

I wonder what a corrupted component would do to such a grinder? I 
guess I'd trap the errors and find a way to filter the garbage. A 
utility for a rainy day.

This is very similar to the way object properties were handled in the 
great product "Windowscript" (another legendary Heizer product (I 
bought all their goodies).

sqb