insertion point glitch

[Richard Gaskin]

Robert Brenstein wrote:
> On 20.05.2012 at 21:28 Uhr -0700 Timothy Miller apparently wrote:
>>Hi, I do a fair amount of tedious data entry with my liveCode stacks.
>>
>>Now and then, a field's focus border is hilited, the cursor
>>insertion point is blinking in the field, but the field is
>>unresponsive to keyboard input. Clicking again in the field does not
>>make a difference. The only way to make the field responsive is to
>>click in another field, then click again on the field I want to type
>>into.
>
> I keep seeing exactly that as well. I believe this is a glitch
> somewhere in the engine. I have seen it as far as version 2.6 and
> while working in MetaCard. It usually happens for me when selecting
> the field content with the mouse and accidently misclicking
> somewhere, I believe by the edge of the field. I never figured out
> the exact trigger, but since clicking elsewhere resets it, I learned
> to live with it and just watch to make clean clicks.

This seems an intermittent but pervasive issue for which it has been 
difficult to pin down a recipe:

http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5043
http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6416
http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6513
http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7568
http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7811


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