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Hi! I am missing something simple.

I have "put the selectedChunk into gVariable" in an unlocked field for a mouse click which pops up a menu button.

In the menu button pick handler I put "cut gVariable". Obviously I declare gVariable in both handlers. (I cannot simply use "cut" because the field loses focus when the menu pops up).

gVariable contains "char 178 to 191 of field 1" - the field number rather than it's name.

When executed it cuts the entire field object, not the selection.

What am I missing? It's got to be something really simple, I'm just brain dead and can't find it.

Thanks, Walt

I wonder if this is related to bug report 7766?

Odd, indeed. How could this have gone unnoticed?

Just so you know, this works: I will have to see if HC exhibits the same...

Craig Newman

Now this thing is intermiitant. I made a few fields, ran the code in several ways:

on mouseup --this never fails
cut the selectedChunk
end mouseUp

on mouseup -- this is intermiittant, field disappeared several times, but not always
put the selectedChunk into temp
cut temp
end mouseUp

on mouseup --this never fails
put the selectedChunk into temp
do "cut" && temp
end mouseUp

But now I cannot duplicate the bug at all. Everything works fine. ("I got better...") I will try a new session.

Ah. It turns out that closing and reopening a stack will cause this to happen once. Once the bug occurs, and a field is deleted, then all subsequent runs work just fine, even with new fields. I am sure we can all write scripts on preOpenStack to create a field, lose it, and then leave everything just ducky.

Craig Newman

Craig,
The issue I had also involved a popup menu (where the "cut" is executed), and I think that changes focus, and mangles something somewhere. I can also cut from within a field's script, it's the popup which seems to mess things up.
Walt

Walt.

I put in a bug report. The way I do it is reproducable. And really odd.

# 9778.

Craig

WaltBrown wrote:Craig,
The issue I had also involved a popup menu (where the "cut" is executed), and I think that changes focus, and mangles something somewhere. I can also cut from within a field's script, it's the popup which seems to mess things up.
Walt

Hi Walt, I can confirm "do "cut" && gvariable" works in a popup on both Mac's and PC's. No evidence of 7766 there. I'm posting my test program.

-- Mark

PS the "cut" script is in Choice 1 on the popup

Thanks. I guess "cut" will remain buggy if called directly. I'll remember to use the 'do "cut"' instead.

The bug is confirmed by QCC. Still hard to believe this was never noticed.

I still intend to check HC, but I don't expect to find it there.

Craig Newman