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User: james 10 years ago
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| Has anyone else noticed a serious problem selecting individual bits of text a number of paragraphs down in a text box? A quitting of EverWeb and reopening of the document seems to help for a while. Even then, as one gets down a ways in the text box, one seems to have to put the curser a little below where wanted. Sometimes then I will find the curser a line or two off. | |
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User: Roddy 10 years ago
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I've got into the habit of clicking! Click three times on a text box and then the cursor will go wherever you want. Click four times if you are going from on text box or object to another text box. I'm doing it fast without thinking now and can't remember how I did it before. ------------------------------- Roddy Website: http://everwebwidgets.com Contact: http://everwebwidgets.com/ewWidgets-home/contact.html NOTE: I am an EverWeb user and NOT affiliated with EverWeb! Any opinions expressed in this forum are my own. |
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User: Jonkeba 10 years ago
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For weeks I have had the same problem of selecting portions of text in the lower paragraphs. So far, I have only come up with this klutzy workaround: Select a bunch of words one line below the place where you are unable to select; then begin deleting words until you are up on the previous line where you can make the changes you need to. Tried the three-click solution but so far, no luck. Last edit 10 years ago |
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User: james 10 years ago
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| My trick is to use the arrow keys to get where I want. It's worse though if I want to select it to make it a link. Then I have to quit the app and reopen. Again, only in the way-down paragraphs. Go up a couple of lines and all is well. Oddly, sometimes go down a couple of lines and all is well too. | |
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User: james 10 years ago
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| And… it seems to be generated not only lower down, but often where I've skipped a line and then bolded a heading, maybe enlarged it, and left a space or increased space. I've even tried copy/pasting the problem section into a new text box - high up - but it is still a problem. Then again, only in longer, more complex essays. | |
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User: james 10 years ago
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Upon experimenting, the problem seems to occur, at least here, when I use extra spacing after paragraphs. In this case a 15. A few paragraphs down the ability to select the first line of the next paragraph gets tricky, further down impossible. It looks like on the tricky ones, all you have to do is place the curser low, almost under the text. As if the selection ability is sliding down more than the text and accumulating to the point of confusion. And further down, if the paragraph has only a word or two heading, no way it will get selected. I've never done it, but could probably shoot a video of the effect and creating it if it would help. I'm using a new iMac running Mavericks. |
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User: Jonkeba 10 years ago
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| Thanks, james. Putting the top of the cursor onto the lower baseline edge of the text that I want to change seems to work pretty well—more efficient than my workaround... | |
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User: Paul-RAGESW 10 years ago
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If you could send us a video showing the issue, we can try and reproduce it and get it fixed.
------------------------------- Paul EverWeb Developer |
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User: james 10 years ago
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In full awkward recording voice, here's a link to a short video clip of the issue, DropBox link to file: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/173124039/Selection%20Issue.zip Pages where I don't try to use gaps between paragraphs don't have the problem. I hope this helps. |
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User: Roddy 10 years ago
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The problem is being compounded by your choice of settings in the Text inspector. Say you are using a font size of 12px with a line height of 1.25 and an "After Paragraph" setting of 15. The line height translates as 17.5 px and the after paragraph (which is actually a bottom margin) as 11.25px. This means that the height of a line in a paragraph is almost 30px. Therefore the cursor has to be placed in the middle of this which means it has to be aimed below the actual text. Put another way, the cursor is trying to locate in a space that is two and a half times higher than the actual text. The general rules for text styles are to use a minimum font size of 14px - with 15px being preferable -and a line height of 1. A reasonable value for "After Paragraph" would be 7. ------------------------------- Roddy Website: http://everwebwidgets.com Contact: http://everwebwidgets.com/ewWidgets-home/contact.html NOTE: I am an EverWeb user and NOT affiliated with EverWeb! Any opinions expressed in this forum are my own. |
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User: Roddy 10 years ago
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See this page for some guidelines for laying out a page with a default text box which is used on every page of your site… http://everwebcodebox.com/layout/page-template.html ------------------------------- Roddy Website: http://everwebwidgets.com Contact: http://everwebwidgets.com/ewWidgets-home/contact.html NOTE: I am an EverWeb user and NOT affiliated with EverWeb! Any opinions expressed in this forum are my own. |
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User: james 10 years ago
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| Thank you, thank you. That's at least two of us not being driven crazy any more. Even though my "lack" of formatting wasn't a problem with iWeb, and earlier with GoLive, I'm happy to have guidelines that will work. I can adjust, especially since EverWeb has so much to offer everywhere else. Now I just hope I can hold my breath long enough for the Blog pages to be added into the mix…… | |
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