On 10/11/01 8:11 pm, Ted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Disappearing Cursor Recipe > Tested on Mac OS 9, Rev 1.0 and 1.1; Windows 98, Rev 1.0 > > > *On Mac OS 9, the cursor disappears on the 13th visible line of an object > window, characters 1 through 87. > > *On Windows 98, the cursor disappears on the 15th visible line of an object > window, characters 1 through 87. > > Here is the recipe for a Mac: > > Open an object script, scroll to the area of your choice, count down 13 lines > from the top, and try to enter the cursor. > > If you attempt to click into line 13, or arrow up or down into line 13, the > cursor will disappear. It will also disappear if you click at the end of line > 12 and hit Enter to create an empty line 13. > > Even though the cursor does not show, text can be entered. After the 87th > character of line 13, the cursor becomes visible. > > Note that the cursor disappears on the *13th visible line in the window*--not > the 13th line of code in the script. After scrolling, whichever line of code > that happens to fall into the 13th visible slot from the top of the window is > the one that will show no cursor.
Verified. Very interesting - I must say that at the moment I have no idea why this is happening. Congratulations of having spotting that one - we did notice the cursor wasn't 100% reliable but we couldn't find a recipe. We'll look into this further now. Thanks for the report! Regards, Kevin Kevin Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.runrev.com/> Runtime Revolution Limited - Power to the Developer! Tel: +44 (0) 870 747 1165. Fax: +44 (0)1639 830 707.
