Subject: Re: Looking for problem confirmation
From: Thomas Fletcher (thomasf@qnx.com)
Date: Fri Jan 05 2001 - 13:16:08 CST
On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Thomas Briggs wrote:
>
> > Can anyone help my confirm/deny a problem on another
> > platform other than QNX.
> >
> > - Start AbiWord with a blank document
> > - Hold down the spacebar
> > - Watch the cursor go all the way to the right
> > side of the page ... and then continue off the
> > page into the "greyed" area.
>
> I think I can confirm this on Win32. I say "I think" because it depends
> on what you mean by "continue off the page into the "grayed" area. When
> following the steps described above, the cursor disappears when it gets to
> the right-hand edge of the doc. I get flashes of white in the grayed area
> if I continue to hold down the space bar.
> I think the important thing here is that the cursor doesn't wrap around
> to the next line, like you'd expect it to, until you hit a non-space key.
Thanks everybody. I'll try and take a look to see what
is happening to make the space "delimiter" such a special
character that it doesn't wrap when other characters do.
Thomas
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Thomas (toe-mah) Fletcher QNX Software Systems
thomasf@qnx.com Neutrino Development Group
(613)-591-0931 http://www.qnx.com/~thomasf
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