Insertion-point marker disappearence - help

Ken Ray kray at sonsothunder.com
Mon Mar 28 23:08:56 EST 2005


On 3/28/05 9:51 PM, "Sarah Reichelt" <sarahr at genesearch.com.au> wrote:

>> I have met with a problem, to which I find no explication in the rev
>> documentation. Usually an unlocked text field, when selected, will
>> have a blinking
>> insertion-point cursor. This functions in my mainstack.  But a
>> textfield in the substack does have active insertion-point (where
>> keyboard text gets inserted), but it doesnt show the blinking marker,
>> although the properties set for the field are identical to those in
>> the main stack, where the function is intact.  I dont even find a
>> keyword in the documentation to identify the little "blinking marker"
>> (often referred to as a "cursor".)  How can I revive it ?
> This usually occurs when a group has been created so that a portion of
> the group overlaps the edit field. Move the field to the front and the
> cursor should come back.

Or vote for bug #1734 so it can get fixed...

:-)

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com




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