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

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