Recreating Deleted Field Crashes Rev v2.7.1 on WinXP

[Jim Ault]

Excellent timing on this issue. I rarely work with tabstops, but
yesterday....    In this case, a table field locks Rev when trying to use
the inspector, and I have to force quit.  In addition, the tab stops field
does not expand..

It seems like if I am in pointer tool mode and merely click on the field and
bring up the inspector I get the blank script error notification with the
one button 'Script' (which takes you no where).  Looks like a patch could be
done to one of the Rev stacks to fix the problem.

Of course I could put in to the message box "set the tabstops of field
textLines to "20,30,45,78", but the feature should still work.

My work around is to delete the field, make a new one, set everything but
the tabs, then use the plugin 'revTabRuler', then try to remember not to
ever click on the field for editing.

Rev 2.6.1, Mac OSX 10.4.6

Jim Ault
Las Vegas


On 5/24/06 11:54 AM, "Rob Cozens" <rcozens at pon.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> 5. In the field's basic properties, set the name to the name of the
>>> deleted field...Rev hangs up for me here.
>> 
>> Did it again...I'm trying to see/set tabstops in Table Properties.
>> 
> 
> Rev 2.7.1 on Win XP:
> 
> I created a new field, then selected its Table Properties just to set
> tabstops.  Rev is totally unresponsive, and I'm rebooting as I write
> this.
> 
> Does this happen to anyone else?  Last time this happened I checked the
> Message Watcher, and found that all mouse clicks resulted in crevTable
> messages--or something like that-- instead of mouseUp/down..
> 
> IMFO, Rev's tabStop setting mechanism sucks.  The tabStops only appear
> on the Table Properties, and even if you expand the Table Properties
> window, the tabStops field doesn't grow to allow access to all settings
> (in my case I can only get to 5 of 7 tabStops).
> 
> And just setting tabStops or vertical/horizontal grids in a field
> should not invoke the whole spreadSheet/Table overhead, me thinks.
>