At 6:33 AM -0700 4/7/02, Jeanne A. E. DeVoto wrote: >I've seen this too, intermittently, and it's a known problem (which I >should have put in the release notes). I think it was determined that this >is an engine buglet. I'm not sure when it will be addressed.
Thanks for your reply, Jeanne. I'm really disappointed to hear the text-hilite problem may be an engine bug. It occurs about 70% of the time here, and causes any stack where the user enters text to be virtually useless. (That's especially true when the text hilite color is very dark, which usually occurs.) When the user tabs from field to field, for example, the field text is unreadable. So too is text selected to be modified or Copied. A selected line of a list field cannot be read. Default text in Ask dialogs cannot be read. And, of course, the overall impression is "buggy software". As a Revolution newbie, I'm really excited by what I see in Revolution, but I'm uncomfortable offering stacks with this feature to the general public. This really needs to be fixed, in my opinion. Maybe this recipe is already known, but I've noticed the script editor uses the correct hilite color when opened by the Script tab of the Properties palette, but not when you press Command-Option over an object. Nor does it work correctly when opened by one of the "Script" buttons of the Application Overview window, nor by dragging the Script tab out of the Properties palette. So sometimes the script window is fine and other times it has the problem, which may make it easier to debug. (On the other hand, if they are two very different windows it only suggests that one Script window has the problem and the other doesn't.) There's another text-selection issue that need to be addressed too, I believe. Selected text should show a different hilite when Revolution is in the background. (Mac OS 9.1 here.) As I type in Eudora, for example, the selected text of the Revolution window in the background looks identical to when it is frontmost. Instead of hiliting the text, the text should be framed. (That, or not show a hilite at all in the background.) As a newbie, I never know if there's a yet undiscovered setting to apply the proper behavior, or if I can safely assume the environment controls such behavior. (I spend a lot of time searching.) Karl _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
