Strange behavior when opening frop down lists in dialog boxes

[Himanshu Marathe]

Hi,

I also faced this problem. But, I worked on a remote pc and used
Microsoft Remote Desktop. I never faced this problem on a local
machine.

Is your FM installed on a remote PC?


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On 10/10/07, Leah Smaller <leah at compulite.com> wrote:
> Good morning all,
>
> FM 7.0 Windows XP
>
> This strange thing is happening in dialog boxes. I wonder if it has always been this way (not logical) and I never noticed or this is some new. weird, skewed behavior.
> When first  opening a dialog (for instance, the Character Designer) it takes more than one click on an arrow to open a drop down list (the font list, for instance). In fact, in fact it takes about 3 clicks:
> Click 1 - nothing happens
> Click 2 - the field is now in focus
> Click 3 - drop down list, well...drops down.
>
> After this intial 3 click process, any other drop down menu in the dialog box opens with the normal one click.
> As long as the dialog box stays open the 3 click operation does not return. However, after closing the dialog box and opening it again,  3 clicks to open a drop down list are necessary.
>
> This, of course, slows down the work pace and it is a pity to add extraneous mouse clicks to over worked hands.
>
> Any guesses as how to take care of this annoying problem?
>
> Leah Smaller
> Technical Communicator
> Certified Feldenkrais Method practitioner
> leah at compulite.com
>
> "What you truly learn best will appear to you later as your own discovery." (Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais)
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