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feline
Whole Tomato Software
United Kingdom
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 Posted - Mar 08 2004 : 12:58:59 PM
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using VAX 1219 and VS .NET 2003
when i have a work underlined in a comment as a spelling mistake (which is very helpful) right clicking with the mouse brings up a list of suggestions.
however if i move the cursor onto the word and use the "right click" / "context menu" key on my keyboard i get the standard right click menu instead. so i cannot get help with the spelling with the keyboard. a minor point, but irritating, since i am keyboard centric. |
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Old as dirt
Tomato Guru
USA
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Posted - Mar 08 2004 : 2:55:43 PM
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I can't get sprelling suggestions even with the mouse. |
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support
Whole Tomato Software
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Old as dirt
Tomato Guru
USA
246 Posts |
Posted - Mar 08 2004 : 10:30:46 PM
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| I went back and deliberatly misspelled a word in a comment and after a small delay (I was able to finish the line) the word was underlined in red. I immediatly put the cursor on the word and right clicked and got the list box which you get if you do that over a word that isn't misspelled - the one with cut, copy, paste etc. I puzzled of that a while and went to the second misspelled and did the same thing and behold I got a list of suggestions (none of them right, but at least some suggestions). So I went back to the first word and this time I got suggestions. So I guess it isn't really broken, just slow - which is the same thing if you are in a hurry. |
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Edited by - Old as dirt on Mar 08 2004 10:31:48 PM |
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support
Whole Tomato Software
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Posted - Mar 08 2004 : 11:32:05 PM
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Our spell engine waits for a pause before doing its thing. We don't want to have it get in the way of normal editing, albeit we pay the price is some goofy UI behavior -- this being one of them.
One day, we will try to change the behavior to be more like what we all expect. |
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DaveChapman
New Member
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Posted - Mar 09 2004 : 05:52:28 AM
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If you use the horizontal scroll bar to scroll the source code left and right, the text moves but the red underlines stay where they are.
(VC6 & build 1219)
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Old as dirt
Tomato Guru
USA
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Posted - Mar 09 2004 : 09:42:48 AM
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| That doesn't happen for me (the underline moves as expected). Also VS 6 and 1219 |
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LarryLeonard
Tomato Guru
USA
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Posted - Mar 09 2004 : 10:01:17 AM
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It does happen for me, though, in VS6 and 1219. Weird.
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asmout
Ketchup Master
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Posted - Mar 09 2004 : 2:41:24 PM
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I have the non-moving red line bug too (VS6, 1219).
I can also replicate the bad right-click behavior described by Ken:
1) Take a file with a pre-existing spelling mistake in a comment, underlined in red
2) Type space followed by backspace on the line containing the spelling mistake
3) Wait as long as you like (it appears to make no difference)
4) Right-click on the underlined word - the underlining dissapears & the standard Copy / Paste / etc context menu pops up
5) Press esc to dismiss this menu - still no underline
6) Left-click on the work - underline reappears
7) Right-click on the work - now the spelling menu appears.
This behavior is completely repeatable for me.
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memebogus
Junior Member
USA
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Posted - Mar 09 2004 : 2:57:32 PM
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Originally posted by support
Our spell engine waits for a pause before doing its thing. We don't want to have it get in the way of normal editing, albeit we pay the price is some goofy UI behavior -- this being one of them.
One day, we will try to change the behavior to be more like what we all expect.
I can see why there would be a pause between the typing of a misspelled word and the underlining of it, but why wouldn't the appearance of the correct context menu be instant? If the word is underlined, it should already be known that right-clicking would bring up the spell menu. |
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