spontaneous menu change

Chris Crowley chris at winterstorm.ca
Thu Nov 25 10:34:19 UTC 2004


that's it exactly and hitting the Caps Lock key solved it the last time 
this occurred.

Chris.


Milan Zimmermann wrote:

>There is something preventing the menu from working, that is probably not a 
>feature:
>
>When your Caps Lock is "on", the Left-Button click no longer works - nothing 
>is "clickable" .. in fact clicking on a menu item exhibits itself as mere 
>change in the display (small image attached), but no action.
>
>Not sure this has anything to do with what you are experiencing,
>
>Milan
>
>On November 24, 2004 09:33 pm, Chris Crowley wrote:
>  
>
>>Hello:
>>
>>I'm using squeak3.7 (this issue happened w/ 3.6 as well.)
>>
>>I'm using a workspace window to test code: I type in the workspace,
>>select the code I typed, and then click on the middle/wheel mouse
>>'button' and choose "copy", "paste", "do it", "print it" etc. from the
>>usual menu that pops up in this context. Every so often however (at
>>least once a coding session), the usual menu doesn't pop up, rather the
>>2nd page of this menu pops up, and there's no way to get back to the 1st
>>page, since nothing is selectable. When this happens, the world menu
>>changes as well, and nothing is selectable from it either. After a
>>while, this "bug" corrects itself or I inadvertently do something that
>>corrects it. For instance, I went away from squeak and typed this, came
>>back, and the usual "do it" "print it" etc. menu popped up just fine.
>>The next time it happened I went away to continue this email, returned
>>to squeak, and the problem hadn't healed itself. But on returning to
>>squeak a minute later it was fine again. Anyone encountered this and
>>have an insight?
>>
>>Chris.
>>    
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>
>>    
>>




More information about the Squeak-dev mailing list