Hi
This was present in 8.5.0 (I didn't notice it in 8.3, which I used very little.)
Summary: the key commands for selecting word-by-word (shift-alt-[left arrow] and shift-alt-[right arrow] ) on Mac are not working within Sibelius text objects. This affects all text objects I've checked (whether staff, system objects, or within a Comment).
To replicate:
• open a text object containing several words for editing.
• with the cursor placed left of some text, use shift-alt-[right arrow] multiple times to select a series of words
This should result in an increasing series of words being selected, one more to the right with each iteration of the key command. But, after the first iteration, which works as expected, further iterations delete the selected word and select the next word to the right in its place.
Same underlying bug, but a different outcome:
• open the same text object
• with the cursor placed right of some text, use shift-alt-[left arrow] multiple times to select a series of words
Again, it should result in a series of words being selected. In this case, two outcomes:
a) if the cursor is placed to the right of a word:
the first iteration works as expected, the second iteration deletes the selected word and selects the next word to the left, but further iterations appear to be doing nothing. In fact, I think they are pasting a non-printing non-spacing character (as I have to press [arrow] several times to get past this point in the text object).
b) if the cursor is placed to the right of a space or punctuation mark
the first iteration of the left key command selects that character, but nothing else seems to happen on subsequent iterations of the key command.
This may only affect Macs, as the key commands are system-specific.
Jeremy
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music editor/engraver
Sibelius 6.2 – 8.5.1 on a Mac running OS X 10.10.5 |
8.5.1 bug in text editing - Jody Hughes, 01 Feb 04:35PM
Re: 8.5.1 bug in text editing - Bob Zawalich, 03 Feb 12:18AM
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