insertion point glitch

[Peter Haworth]

Clutching at straws, but the other property to check when this happens is
lockText.
Pete
lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>



On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 9:28 PM, Timothy Miller <
gandalf at doctortimothymiller.com> wrote:

> Hi, I do a fair amount of tedious data entry with my liveCode stacks.
>
> Now and then, a field's focus border is hilited, the cursor insertion
> point is blinking in the field, but the field is unresponsive to keyboard
> input. Clicking again in the field does not make a difference. The only way
> to make the field responsive is to click in another field, then click again
> on the field I want to type into.
>
> This seems to happen inconsistently. Maybe 20% of the time. it happens in
> various fields, and in at least two rather different stacks. It can happen
> when I manually click on a field, or when a script places the insertion
> point in the field. It can happen with an empty field, or in a field that
> contains some default value, and whether I have single-clicked or
> double-clicked on a word in the field. I have never been able to figure out
> how to reproduce the problem. It's a minor annoyance, but if I do a lot of
> data entry, it can happen many times in a day, until I get sick of it, and
> try to figure out why it happens.
>
> I've not been able to troubleshoot very well because the message box
> removes the insertion point from the field and terminates the glitch.
>
> I have noticed that when a field is unresponsive to data entry, it is also
> unresponsive to tabkey and returnkey (tab on return is set to true).
> Autohilite is true. List behavior is false. Traversalon and showFocusBorder
> are true. sharedText is false. The fields in question have no scripts.
>
> Is this a known problem? Is there something I can to do make it stop?
> Lacking that, troubleshooting suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> It's been going on through many updates of LiveCode, possibly for several
> years. This is LC version 5.5. It happens both with my MacMini, running the
> current Mac OS, or my old laptop, running OS 10.6.8.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
>
> Tim
>
>
>
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