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Submitted by WayneK on 2017/06/20 21:32

I know this is an old problem that has been solved then re-appeared several times but my cursor has started disappearing in the grid. For me, the problem went away through several versions over the past few months, but has shown up again with my upgrade to 9.97a.

As before, the problem appears randomly. Once it fails to show in a particular cell, it won't appear no matter how many times I leave, return, and re-try.

Also, rather than start another thread, I'll mention again another old problem that appeared some time back and hasn't been fixed as of 9.97a:

1) Add field to form

2) Form list collapses instead of staying open like it should. (I think there are other cases where it collapses when it shouldn't but this one occurs 100% of the time for me).

Wayne

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Add me as someone that would really like to see this solved, it drives me crazy

. Like Wayne, it disappeared for me for a very long time, only to reappear several versions back. Strange that it reappeared for me severak versions back, yet Wayne says it just reappeared for him with 97a. BTW, I believe I answered all your questions on this in the thread I recentely started on this Pierre. Perhaps the two threads can be merged if it's OK with Wayne?

The thread David mentions is: Disappearing Cursor - Help!

FWIW:

And while Pierre is very good at responding to bug reports, in my experience, you will have a much better chance of getting something fixed if you give it a dedicated thread - or if it's at least roughly on-topic as per thread title

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I too would very much like to see this resolved...

Wayne, what was the previous version you were using which was OK for this ?

If anyone can reproduce this with the sample IQBase, that would help me as I can't seem to be able to reproduce it

(I use the WYSIWYG editor more and more, and it never exhibits this)

Pierre_Admin

IQ Designer

Pierre,

It was working in 9.90a, 9.89b, 9.87c, 9.87z, 9.86b, 9.85 and quite a few more than that. It's been a long time since it wasn't working for me...maybe a year or more.

I copied a cell where it wasn't working to the sample database, and it still wasn't working. But when I closed and re-opened that database, it was back to working, so that's not going to help you.

I switched to WYSIWYG, and it started working in the current problematic cell. I was using WYSIWYG a while back and can't remember why I switched back. I'll stick with that for now.

Wayne

PS Yes, of course, you can merge threads. I wouldn't have started a new one if I'd seen the other.

I'll chime in briefly to add that while I never experienced the problem in grids, I've almost always experienced it in the "add item" dialog (which I use A LOT).

The way I worked around the problem is by pressing tab & then shift+tab to bring the focus back to the item text box. (I created a small AHK script that now does that automatically for me.)

I don't know why pressing tab solves it, but it does... Wonder if it also works for the cursor disappearing in grid cells.

Hi Wayne,

Can you reproduce the issue when the HTML pane is closed ?

Since it is specific to certain items, I suspect it is related to the HTML pane content (length, type, etc)

Pierre_Admin

IQ Designer

Pierre,

I did some more experimenting and came up with this:

1) The problem occurs in a minority of items - maybe 10-15%, as a guess.

2) Once a cell fails to show the cursor, it tends to fail again on subsequent tries but I was wrong to say that the problem is 100% re-creatable. Once I've found a problem cell, the absent cursor problem occurs maybe 75% of the time that I return to it.

3) I always have the HTML pane open, so all the problems occurred under that condition. I wasn't looking for a connection between the two but I do know that in most cases the HTML pane was empty when the problem occurred. I can say this because the problem has occurred in dozens of cells, and very few cells have associated HTML content.

4) This is the important one: I've confirmed that closing the HTML pane did solve the problem in the three cases I've tested.

Wayne

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Pierre,

I did some more experimenting and came up with this:

1) The problem occurs in a minority of items - maybe 10-15%, as a guess.

4) This is the important one: I've confirmed that closing the HTML pane did solve the problem in the three cases I've tested.

Wayne

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Great ! If you can identify the problematic items, I'll be able to fix it. Scramble you file and send it over, or else give me the HTML pane content of them
When you have a problem item, in the grid, press F2 to close edit and F2 again to start editing again, the cursor should show correctly. Is this the case ?

HTH !

Pierre_Admin

IQ Designer

Pierre,

1) None of the current problem cells have HTML pane content.

2) Yes, F2 / F2 solved the problem on the two problem cells I was working on. Not only that, but the fix persisted even after closing/opening the HTML pane and leaving/returning to the cells. In fact, I'm having problems finding a cell that currently has a problem.

Let me if you still want the database because I'll have to spend some time trying to find a cell with a missing cursor.

Wayne

Hi Wayne (and Dave et al),

Thanks for your patience regarding this issue. I was able to reproduce it and working on a permanent fix

Pierre_Admin

IQ Designer

Pierre,

this may then be related / fixable:[quote=Tom]
when the HTML pane is open, with focus in the grid, sometimes the up/down arrows do not work.
Alt+Up or down arrows *Will* work
Editing focused item will work
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But up and down arrows do nothing.

Not consistently reproducible, but this might work:
move focus quickly between various items using the arrow keys with the HTML pane showing. If any of the items have HTML content, it seems to cause the problem.
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