Dictionary usage and IDE hang

[J. Landman Gay]

On 5/12/11 7:32 PM, David Glass wrote:

> 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.

Is the script editor open? It sounds like a script is running and you're 
in debug mode. If that's the case, stop debugging by clicking the blue 
square at the top left of the editor window (or type Cmd-Y) before 
trying to use the dictionary. I haven't had any trouble with the 
dictionary, but I'm used to leaving debug mode before trying to do 
anything else.

If you aren't debugging, also try Cmd-period to stop any running scripts.

> 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've seen some focus problems recently too, though usually the window's 
titlebar just doesn't enable. There's a bug report about it, but until 
it gets tracked down you may need to specifically click on the titlebar 
of the window to put it in focus. Watch for the jellybean buttons to 
enable, then you know you're in the right place. There's something wonky 
going on with window focus in the last release or two. It only seems to 
affect the IDE, standalones work normally.

> 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.

I've been doing that a lot tonight without any trouble. If you can get a 
recipe we can try to verify it. Do you have any closestack handlers that 
might be interfering? Any customizations in your setup?

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