XForms: Trouble with MULTILINE_INPUT field

Dick Middleton (dick@sqf.hp.com)
Tue, 8 Jul 1997 15:29:41 +0100

To subscribers of the xforms list from Dick Middleton <dick@sqf.hp.com> :

> To subscribers of the xforms list from spl@szechuan.ucsd.edu (Steve Lamont) :

> > I use a form with normal input fields, choice objects and one
> > multiline input field. I can click on any object to do interaction
> > with it, except the multiline field. This one can only be entered
> > with the TAB or Return key, but not with a mouse click. ...

> I just did a quick test using 0.86.1 (X11R5, SunOS 4.1.3) and it works
> just fine. Which version of XForms are you running? On what
> platform?

> Are you sure the object isn't somehow invisibly occluded by some other
> object such as a box? I've had that happen when I've not been careful
> about the order of layering of objects within complicated forms.

I just did a "raise" with fdesign and magically it now works. I knew it was
a bug :-)

Thanks again for pointing out the obvious.

Dick

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