copy/paste shortcuts

[Jerry Daniels]

Mark,

I have also observed very difficult to replicate problems with focus  
within Rev IDE and GLX2. Trevor has PINPOINTED the bug his recent bug  
reports and can replicate it in his sample stacks. It comes down to  
"object focus dysphoria" on the part of Revolution's engine. It is not  
an IDE-only problem (and not a GLX2-only problem).

This bug fix is THE most crucial one, IMO, for a successful Rev 2.9  
release. Without this fix, there is really no way an application with  
any kind of complexity can be built and released to users. Short cut  
keys need to work. Period. It should never take an extra click to get  
a control to respond after a palette or dialog has shown. This is  
standard behavior of applications we're discussing, here. This is not  
a "let's see if we can fix this bug in this release" type of option.

Best,

Jerry Daniels

Daniels & Mara, Inc.
Makers of GLX2
http://www.daniels-mara.com/glx2

On Jan 24, 2008, at 1:31 PM, Mark Swindell wrote:

> Thanks for posting this and for the explanation of what may be  
> happening.  I voted for the bug post.  I think it's very important  
> that this is straightened out.  People expect things to work as they  
> do everywhere else.  This isn't a good thing for new users who may  
> find this to be a metaphor for the greater integrity of Rev.  And  
> it's a pain.  I've been doing a lot of editing and manually moving  
> card elements and script snippets, and it is really a hassle.  GLX2  
> also has issues with cut and paste and retaining clipboard info.   
> Perhaps dependent on the engine confusions you describe, but also  
> frustrating.  I'm learning to work around them, but it is not the  
> way things ought to be.
>
> Mark
>
> On Jan 24, 2008, at 8:39 AM, Trevor DeVore wrote:
>
>> On Jan 23, 2008, at 11:13 PM, Mark Swindell wrote:
>>
>>> Is the copy/paste situation supposed to get fixed in Rev 3?  It is  
>>> still very undependable in the 3.9 beta and 2.8.1.  Inconsistent  
>>> even from the menu, but command-c, command-v seems to work only  
>>> very rarely.  Muy frustrante.
>>
>> I just posted another bug report that demonstrates how to confuse  
>> the engine in terms of what is the focusedObject and selectedField.  
>> While creating the report I confirmed that shortcut keys definitely  
>> stop working whenever the engine gets confused. Once focusedObject  
>> and selectedField are back in sync then shortcut keys work great.
>>
>> <http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=5825>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> -- 
>> Trevor DeVore
>> Blue Mango Learning Systems
>> www.bluemangolearning.com    -    www.screensteps.com
>>
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> Thanks,
> Mark
>
>
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