I only use this technique when I spill coffee on my keyboard. I figure there is some kind of 3 second rule whereby if I can get most of the coffee off the keyboard, all will be well. ;-)
Bob On Jun 13, 2012, at 9:23 AM, Keith Clarke wrote: > Yippee - Great that the problem is solved. > > Thanks for sharing the IDE recovery 'keyboard glissando' technique. Until now > I had always reserved those for those Booker T Hammond organ licks! ;-) > Best, > Keith.. > > On 13 Jun 2012, at 16:45, Francis Nugent Dixon wrote: > >> Hi from Beautiful Brittany, >> >> Oufff ! (Sigh of relief !!) >> >> Thanks to Bjornke, Mike and Keith for pointers. >> Keith won the jackpot - the ZOOM was my problem. >> >> I realized that i had a software problem and not >> a hardware problem immediately. When I booted the >> computer, the password request display was sitting >> square in the middle of the screen, and when boot >> had terminated, the screen had gone ZOOM. >> >> I fiddled with the Zoom function as suggested by >> Keith, and all went back to normal. >> >> Sometimes when I have written a repeat mechanism >> in a new script, and I go into a horrible never-ending >> loop, I sometimes slide both hands across the keyboard, >> hitting all the keys at the same time, to see if I can >> get back control of the IDE (don't laugh - it sometimes works). >> This is how I must have zoomed in, but didn't even know >> that this function existed. Now I do !!! >> >> Progress is just a series of monumental f***-ups ! >> >> All is now well in Carnac (and the sun is shining too !) >> >> -Francis >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 _______________________________________________ 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
