More unreproducible oddities in 8--text semi-lock of mousedown

Bob Sneidar bobsneidar at iotecdigital.com
Wed Oct 26 10:38:46 EDT 2016


I have seen something similar where I cannot enter a field or click a button. Switching out of the app and back seems to clear it. I thought it was some code of mine, but it's so obscure and so easily remedied, I didn't bother trying to track it down. 

Bob S


> On Oct 25, 2016, at 15:24 , Dr. Hawkins <dochawk at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I've seen this sporadically as long as I can remember, but it seems to grab
> a couple of times a day in 8 on mac.
> 
> The mouse is apparently thought to be down for text selection in the script
> editor.  This makes it difficult to select any other object, and blocks
> key-commands.
> 
> I generally eventually get out of it by hopping back and forth between the
> finder and livecode, until finally allowed to quit in some way or another
> (if I don't quit, it is near certain that it will happen again in seconds).
> 
> Has anyone else seen *this *one, or is this another case of the machine
> being out to get me? :)
> -- 
> Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq.
> (702) 508-8462
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