Dictionary usage and IDE hang

[David Glass]

Here's an oddity that I haven't been able to narrow down yet, but it is 
causing me a lot of lost work.  Looking for any insights or thoughts on 
why or what is happening.

OS X 10.6.7, LC 4.6.1

I have the LC Dictionary open almost constantly.  Enough that it is 
easier to leave it open than to close and re-open every time.

Sometimes, not sure what the trigger is, when I go to the search field 
and start to delete my previous search term, it won't delete, and the 
entire IDE becomes unresponsive.  In order to clear this issue I have to 
Force Quit LC, which obviously causes me to lose any work I've done 
since I last saved.  I'm not yet in the habit of saving my work every 
time I go to use the Dictionary, but I have a feeling I'm going to get 
there.

The Dock contextual menu reports LC as 'Application Not Responding' 
although it is not reported that way in the Force Quit window (listing 
the running applications).

On one occasion when I started to delete my search term, the focus 
jumped to the object inspector, and I ended up deleting the name of the 
card (the object that had the focus last, maybe?).

I *think* the focus is jumping to someplace I can't see, and I'm 
deleting, or attempting to delete, something that either shouldn't be 
deleted, or can't be deleted, and it is putting the IDE into an unstable 
state.

Possibly related, I've noticed that if I 'close and remove from memory' 
a stack using the contextual menu in the Application Browser I get 
similar behavior.

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

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David Glass - Gray Matter Computing
graymattercomputing.com