LC Bug: No Mouse Wheel Scroll after a Ctrl-Click Launch

[Tom Glod]

wow Curry that must have been a hard one to track down. knowing me, i'll
run into it.

On Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at 2:40 PM Curry Kenworthy via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

>
> LC Bug:
>
> After you Ctrl-click a link that uses "launch"
> the text field will NOT scroll with the Mouse Wheel
> unless you first press a keyboard key or modifier.
>
> Not only is Ctrl-click the official way
> to activate links while editing text in LiveCode,
> but MS Word uses Ctrl-click for links too,
> so it's a widely-trained habit! :)
>
> Here's the bug report:
>
> https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=23520
>
> More details:
>
> This bug does not specifically require Ctrl or click.
> (Or even an edited field.) Any launch or shell
> while a modifier key is down will trigger it.
>
> Then LC fields aren't aware of modifier key status.
> The test stack demos two ways to trigger this.
>
> Bonus side effect:
>
> This might be a valuable clue to explain
> some rare LC Script Editor glitches, too!
> (Each fix gets us closer to a rock-solid SE.)
>
> Platform:
>
> Tested with LC 9.6.6-rc-2 on Windows 10.
> My current recipe did NOT trigger for me on Mac.
> So, I'm not sure yet whether Mac is affected
> by this bug or anything similar.
>
> That wraps up my Weekend Big-Game LC Bug Hunt!
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Curry Kenworthy
>
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