Clutching at straws, but the other property to check when this happens is lockText. Pete lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>
On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 9:28 PM, Timothy Miller < gand...@doctortimothymiller.com> 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. > > This seems to happen inconsistently. Maybe 20% of the time. it happens in > various fields, and in at least two rather different stacks. It can happen > when I manually click on a field, or when a script places the insertion > point in the field. It can happen with an empty field, or in a field that > contains some default value, and whether I have single-clicked or > double-clicked on a word in the field. I have never been able to figure out > how to reproduce the problem. It's a minor annoyance, but if I do a lot of > data entry, it can happen many times in a day, until I get sick of it, and > try to figure out why it happens. > > I've not been able to troubleshoot very well because the message box > removes the insertion point from the field and terminates the glitch. > > I have noticed that when a field is unresponsive to data entry, it is also > unresponsive to tabkey and returnkey (tab on return is set to true). > Autohilite is true. List behavior is false. Traversalon and showFocusBorder > are true. sharedText is false. The fields in question have no scripts. > > Is this a known problem? Is there something I can to do make it stop? > Lacking that, troubleshooting suggestions would be appreciated. > > It's been going on through many updates of LiveCode, possibly for several > years. This is LC version 5.5. It happens both with my MacMini, running the > current Mac OS, or my old laptop, running OS 10.6.8. > > Thanks in advance, > > > Tim > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
