On Sat, 4 May 2002, Miguel A. Urech wrote: > Hello all, > > Up to now I had only used AB to include names and e-mail addresses. > Yesterday I decide to start using it to include some other details > like home or business addresses, phone numbers, etc., and I was > completely annoyed when I saw I could not copy/paste from an e-mail > (either in preview or view folder) into the Edit Address Entry dialog. > If the Edit Address Entry dialog is open you can switch to the view > folder view but can't highlight and copy anything and you can't even > switch to the preview pane. Annoying, don't you think? > > You can't even use SmartBat as an "intermediary" for copy/paste. The > only way I've found is to first copy all contact details to an > external text editor and then proceed with copy/paste. > > I don't know if this has been reported or dealt with in this list > before, I must admit I didn't even look in the archives. > > I don't know too much about Windows programming (it's been 10 years > since I wrote my last line of code) but I think this is due to Edit > Address Entry dialog being modal/non-modal (I don't remember which is > which) and believe it should be something very simple to correct. > > Just in case, I will ask the usual: "am I missing something?" And, "am > I the only one seeing this behaviour"? > > TIA. >
No... you're not the only one that has this 'issue'. I get it too. I'm assuming it's caused when they create the address book, as a seperate window... then when they generate the edit/add form, they create it as modal... when a modal form in an application is generated, that form had to be removed before you can go ahead and select the main window(s) again. I do a bit of coding myself, and come across this from time to time in my stuff. That is my assumption on it anyway ;) You are right though... it should be fairly simple to correct... but they may have put it in that way by design purely so that you cannot have several edit dialogs open at the same time... doing this might cause memory issues. -- Jonathan Angliss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ________________________________________________________ Current Ver: 1.60i FAQ : http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Bug Reports: https://bt.ritlabs.com
