Looks to be due to a deferred ui message in PluggableTextMorph>>accept. 
Given that text morphs do type-ahead scanning without waiting for the event 
loop to run it would seem to be interfering.

I've tested with the resetting of  the selection being not deferred and it 
seems to work as it should.

This method is already overridden in Polymorph (for keyboard focus handling) 
so I'll make the change for the next version of Polymorph.

Regards, Gary.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bert Freudenberg" <bert at freudenbergs.de>
To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers list" 
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Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 10:40 AM
Subject: Re: [squeak-dev] scrambled input fields


>
> On 14.11.2008, at 08:33, Philippe Marschall wrote:
>
>> 2008/11/14 Sophie (itsme213) <itsme213 at hotmail.com>:
>>> Using Damien's 3.10 dev image:
>>>
>>> The search field gets character order scrambled if I type  moderately 
>>> fast.
>>> Typing either super-fast or super-slow works fine.
>>>
>>> Any clues?
>>
>> Wasn't it always like this?
>
>
> I have seen this too, in other images. Anybody have a clue?
>
> - Bert -
>
>
>