[Framers] Weird Framemaker 10 behavior

Tammy Van Boening tammyvb at spectrumwritingllc.com
Mon Aug 22 11:50:12 PDT 2016


Well, harumph. . . but that was what I kinda' thought. Thanks for the
verification all.

Back to the grind.

TVB



Tammy Van Boening
Owner/Principal
Spectrum Writing, LLC
www.spectrumwritingllc.com
TammyVB  *AT*  spectrumwritingllc  *DOT*  com


-----Original Message-----
From: Stamm, David [mailto:David.Stamm at gd-ms.com] 
Sent: Monday, August 22, 2016 12:24 PM
To: Tammy Van Boening; 'Framers List'
Subject: RE: [Framers] Weird Framemaker 10 behavior

2016-08-22-01T18:25Z

Tammy -

I've seen something rather similar in several versions of FrameMaker.  It
still happens now with FrameMaker 2015 Release.  As you put it, . . . works
beautifully and then blam . . . for no reason, after using the
keyboard . . . " shortcuts to copy and paste, " . . . "it's  just like FM
loses its little mind and just decides it doesn't want to . . . " copy
things and paste them.

There are other misbehaviors such as this, all of which appear for no
apparent reason and, after some time of my putting up with them, the
disappear.  I also do not know the cause, but I'm willing to believe (long
after the fact) that the malfunctions started with FrameMaker 10.

Regards,
Dave Stamm
Information Engineer

-----Original Message-----
From: Framers
[mailto:framers-bounces+david.stamm=gd-ms.com at lists.frameusers.com] On
Behalf Of Tammy Van Boening
Sent: 2016-08-22-Mon 13:46
To: 'Framers List'
Subject: [Framers] Weird Framemaker 10 behavior

FM 10, Win7, 64-bit: all patched and current

I have many variables in the book that I am developing for a software
client. I use the Keyboard shortcut of CTRL + 0 to access the variable list,
and then keyboard shortcuts to scroll through the long list, for example,
"PR" to scroll through the list of Product variables (Product 1, Product 2,
and so on). Nine times outta' ten, this works beautifully and then blam. .
.for no reason, after using the keyboard shortcut of CTRL + 0, instead of
getting an opened variable list, I get the message "Not Applicable," which
means that I have to stop, go to Special > Variables, and then manually
scroll the list. This is a real pain with such a big manual to create - I
prefer to keep my hands on the keyboard and this shortcut function helps in
that endeavor.

I haven't been able to tie this behavior to any action in the file - there
aren't any issues scrolling/saving the file, the file hasn't crashed. .
.it's  just like FM loses its little mind and just decides it doesn't want
to remember keyboard shortcuts.

Has anyone else experienced this behavior?   If so, did you ever figure out
how to make it stop?

TIA,

TVB



Tammy Van Boening
Owner/Principal
Spectrum Writing, LLC
www.spectrumwritingllc.com
TammyVB  *AT*  spectrumwritingllc  *DOT*  com


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