Text field bug?

[Jim Ault]

Caution when using inspector palettes!
If you are editing, say the 'contents' drop down or the 'custom properties'
drop down, then change the focus of the object being inspected, always
change the pop up menu to another choice, then back to the original choice.

This becomes obvious if you are inspecting a button object, choose custom
properties, then use the message box to
set the cpUserDataParam of this button to "Red Flag Sale"

The update will not be seen until you change the popup, then back to the
'custom properties' choice again.  An this time we did not even change the
focus of the inspector.

Hope this helps.

Jim Ault
Las Vegas


On 11/6/06 2:44 PM, "Devin Asay" <devin_asay at byu.edu> wrote:

> 
> On Nov 6, 2006, at 2:15 PM, Dar Scott wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Nov 6, 2006, at 1:54 PM, Devin Asay wrote:
>> 
>>> Recipe:
>>> Create a new mainstack.
>>> Create 2 new text entry fields and name them. I'll use george and
>>> sally.
>>> Open the script editor for field "sally".
>>> Type some contents into fld "george".
>>> Type some contents into fld "sally".
>>> Open the property inspector for fld "george" and go to the
>>> Contents panel.
>>> In the contents field, make a change to the text of fld "george",
>>> and don't exit the field.
>>> Do this three times:
>>> Click on field "sally".
>>> Click in the open script editor for field "sally".
>>> After the third click to the script editor the contents of fld
>>> "george" is replaced by the contents of fld "sally".
>>> 
>>> Like I said, this only happens on G5 iMacs in our lab running 2.7.4.
>> 
>> Nothing fishy with 2.7.4 Enterprise build 291 on a G4 with OS X
>> 10.4.8.  I started with a fresh Rev session.
> 
> I just got it to do the same thing with 2.7.4 build 291 on an Intel
> Mac Mini dual core. But it only seems to happen  with Studio, not
> enterprise.
>> 
>> I might be doing something wrong.  I don't know how to click on
>> sally without exiting the contents field.
> 
> Well, clicking from fld "george" after changing the contents, then
> without clicking anywhere else, click field "sally". (We're in Edit
> mode this whole time.) And it's true, it *seems* to close the
> contents field, because field "george" updates. But then when I click
> back and forth between field "sally" and the script of sally, after
> three times the text of george changes to the text of sally. So there
> is obviously some kind of flag somewhere that remembers that focus
> was in the contents field of george's property inspector.
> 
> However, if I make changes in george's contents field, then click
> outside of the field while still in george's property inspector, then
> go through the process of repeatedly clicking sally and her script,
> nothing happens. There doesn't seem to be any more flag that makes
> george's text "vulnerable".
>> 
>> (I have seen funny field problems after snapshots.  I think I have
>> seen stack name changes at funny times but suspect those were Dar
>> errors and I haven't seen those for a while.)
> 
> No, it's not a Dar error, it's a bug. See BZ # 3620. This may even be
> related to that bug.
> 
> Devin
> 
> Devin Asay
> Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
> Brigham Young University
> 
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