My last (I hope) insertion point problem was traced to clearing a field
by writing "" (NULL) with FldSetText().
On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Ken Krugler wrote:
> At 12:00am -0700 00-10-05, Palm Developer Forum digest wrote:
> >Subject: Insertion Point Problem
> >From: Stringer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 22:54:00 -0400
> >X-Message-Number: 71
> >
> >With the 3.5 debug ROMs, I'm now getting "Insertion Point
> >Problem" messages routinely. Never have seen this with other
> >ROM images.
>
> Additional checks were added to the field code in 3.5. There are many
> ways to trigger the "Invalid insertion point position" fatal alert,
> especially since this is a generic message that it generated when any
> of a number of checks fail.
>
> >The problem even occurs within window displayed with
> >FrmCustomAlert () on top of a screen with entry fields.
> >
> >What specific event is this message recording? Whatever is
> >happening seems benign, but presents me with an ugly message.
>
> There's a known situation where you can get this fatal alert if
> you've got alert text with one or more trailing linefeeds. Check the
> list archive for more information.
>
> -- Ken
>
> Ken Krugler
> TransPac Software, Inc.
> <http://www.transpac.com>
> +1 530-470-9200
>
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