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Re: [amibroker] Re: TJ... take a look. Am I the only one with an editor problem



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Ken,

I have to disagree.  At max. two clicks are be necessary ONLY if focus
is OUTSIDE of AFL editor.  If focus is inside AFL editor - one click.

Best regards,
Tomasz Janeczko
amibroker.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ken Close" <closeks@xxxxxxxx>
To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 2:23 PM
Subject: RE: [amibroker] Re: TJ... take a look. Am I the only one with an editor problem


> Nick/Phsst:   I noticed a long time ago that I must left click THREE (3)
> times at a location in the AA window to anchor the cursor and have it
> where I want to type.
> 
> First click if coming from another window (another program).
> Second click places the cursor at the very beginning of the AA window
> (even if I have clicked down in the code)
> Third click positions the cursor at the point of desired entry.
> 
> Try it.  Three clicks.
> 
> Ken
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Molchanoff <nkm@xxxxxxxxx> [mailto:nkm@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 1:07 AM
> To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [amibroker] Re: TJ... take a look. Am I the only one with an
> editor problem
> 
> Phsst,
> 
> You are not alone.  I too have had this issue, and it is indeed 
> maddening.  It wasn't always like this;  this behaviour appeared 
> after one of the new beta's.  I reported it at the time, but never 
> got a reply from anyone, so I've just been living with it, and trying 
> to be more careful.  
> 
> So, while I can't help solve this, I can at least validate that it 
> isn't just you.
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> NIck Molchanoff
> 
> 
> 
> --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Phsst <phsst@xxxx>" <phsst@xxxx> 
> wrote:
> > Tonight I finally reached 'critical mass' with a chronic problem on 
> my
> > system related to the editor windows in both AA and Indicator 
> Builder
> > in Amibroker.
> > 
> > While editing AA AFL or Indicator Builder AFL, I point my mouse
> > pointer to a location where I want to begin editing/keying, and in
> > order to anchor the actual cursor at that location I LEFT CLICK my
> > mouse so that I can begin editing/entering data at that exact 
> location
> > in the editor window where the Cursor is blinking. 
> > 
> > Since my cursor is still blinking at the desired location, I begin
> > keying in the new code that I want... and after keying 5 or 6 or 
> more
> > characters into the keyboard I look at the editor window and realize
> > that NOTHING I keyed in has appeared in the editor window where I 
> had
> > intended the new code to appear. 
> > 
> > Then a sickening revelation overcomes me that the mouse pointer has
> > failed to re-position where I clicked for data entry purposes, and
> > that I have just keyed in some programming keystrokes into an 
> unknown
> > location in the AFL code where the REAL MOUSE IS POSITIONED, and 
> that
> > somewhere out of my vision in my editor window I have probably just
> > corrupted a line of code that I cannot see.
> > 
> > This happens repeatedly, and even when I try to verify that the 
> mouse
> > pointer is correctly positioned in the editor window when I LEFT
> > CLICK, I get fooled by not realizing that the current mouse blinking
> > location does not actually represent the current actual mouse 
> pointer
> > for data entry purposes.
> > 
> > I am beginning to think that this a problem with a 3rd party tool 
> that
> > is used in the Amibroker development environment. I use a notebook
> > with a touchpad.
> > 
> > Am I the only one with this problem? And if not, do I need to report
> > this as a problem to TJ?
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Phsst
> 
> 
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