>Subject: Re: freeze with the TYPE command
>
>Thanks, but it's a lot easier just to incorporate 'select the text of ..' 
>before the type command.  My main concern was with the reference in the 
>dictionary - the 'bug' in Metacard/Revolution that causes the hang-up if 
>you DON'T incorporate it is more of a curiosity for the 
>Metacard/Revolution team in case it is a signal of something worth 
>removing, but I appreciate that they will always have mountains of minor 
>bugs to climb, so it can't have high priority.

Scott Raney has kindly explained the hang-up to me  so I may as well impart 
it to the list: if a button has the keyboard focus and the space key is 
pressed then the button is activated (at least on Windows and Linux), so 
setting the type command with some text including a space will 
automatically set up a recursion. Inserting 'select the text of ..' avoids 
this. To simulate the loop manually, first use the tab key to give the 
button the keyboard focus and then hit the space key.  Strange but 
unavoidable.  (I've still no idea why it happens on the Mac as well, but I 
don't want to flog a dead horse any further!)

Mike Yates

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