I was using Designer yesterday to edit several objects in a universe. In the middle of it, when I tried to hilight an object to edit it, whatever object was highlighted before would remain highlighted. Soon everything was highlighted and I could not edit at all. I tried to close and reopen the universe - no difference. I closed and reopened Designer - I could not log back in! My colleague, Shirley, suggested I press the Shift key 10 times. It worked! Strange but true!! I do not know if this is really related to BOI but that is the application I was using when it happened. Regards, Linda Caron
Andersen Consulting at Texas Instruments (972) 927-6339 lcaron@ti.com
I was using Designer yesterday to edit several objects in a universe. In
the middle of it, when I tried to hilight an object to edit it, whatever
object was highlighted before would remain highlighted. Soon everything
was highlighted and I could not edit at all. I tried to close and reopen
the universe - no difference. I closed and reopened Designer - I could not
log back in! My colleague, Shirley, suggested I press the Shift key 10
times. It worked! Strange but true!! I do not know if this is really
related to BOI but that is the application I was using when it happened.
This is a serious case of a “sticky” keyboard. Sometimes certain keys get stuck, specially the “shift” or the “alt” key that causes this behavior. Pressing the key a couple of times releases the key and solves the “problem”.
I reckon windows is at fault here 'cos I’ve had similar things happen with the ALT key; i.e. whenever you press TAB it activates the ALT+TAB application swap. Pressing Alt repeatedly sorts it out though!
Slightly related: There is a bug in designer when you are in the object properties dialog. You can’t get into it when you have multiple objects selected, but if you open it for one, and THEN select multiple objects it seems like you can set properties for them all, but in fact it only changes them for one. It would be nice if you COULD change common properties of multiple objects and this seems to suggest you can but it’s really a little bug!
Cheers for listening!
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