Persistent edit mode
J. Landman Gay
jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Mon Jul 14 22:30:52 EDT 2008
Mikey wrote:
> Ask your client to drag down, not just right, to clear. Also ask client to
> try clicking on a button. I've seen cases on XP where the OS doesn't get
> the equivalent of a mouseUp message, or gets the left and right mouse
> buttons confused.
>
> So after trying the above, try right-clicking and see what happens.
>
> On my lappie, for instance, if I sleep it instead of hibernating, it will
> sometimes confuse the keyboard return key with the keypad enter key. It
> will also mix the mouse buttons. Hibernating seems to fix this for me.
>
> I'm guessing it's a funky driver/OS issue, and it could take quite a while
> to figure it out (in my case it took a couple of years before I finally
> stumbled on the hibernate/sleep problem)
Thanks much, I'll ask him. I also just found a bug report in the
database about getting stuck in edit mode, but no one can reproduce it
reliably, not even the person who wrote it. So apparently there's some
glitch somewhere.
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