From: samodena@csemail.cropsci.ncsu.edu (S. A. Modena)
Subject: Re: Problems with BP 7.0 IDE text editor
Organization: Crop Science Dept., NCSU, Raleigh, NC 27695-7620
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 04:22:04 GMT

In article <1993Jan27.090449.1@fencer.cis.dsto.gov.au> st_waldman@fencer.cis.dsto.gov.au writes:
>I am using Borland Pascal 7.0 with its protected mode IDE. I have
>encountered a problem when scrolling through text in the IDE editor
>window. The problem occurs when I continuosly hold down the up-arrow or
>down-arrow keys. I find that the characters "8" and "2" will get
>dropped in regions where the cursor has been.

This is an interesting "bug".....picks on 2's and 8's....might qualify for
a Deep Space 8 story line (thinking of the one on last night).

>
>As you can see, this is quite annoying, and requires editing
>corrections to be made before you can compile. I was wondering whether
>it is a common problem. 

If this were a common problem, it would have been mentioned repeatedly
in this newsgroup.  ;^)

But, ever being a skeptic, I immediately dropped out of Ether Drive and
composed a progam listing in TP with oodles of 2's and 8's embedded in
CONST strings.....compileable code all...several screens fulls so'd I'd
have to hold down the arrow key to get from top to bottom or visa-versa.

Sigh...no trouble with missing 2's and 8's...and no problem compiling
afterwards...

>                         I have a Microsoft mouse and the driver is the
>one that came with Windows 3.1, so it is fairly recent.
>
>Another interesting quirk of BP 7.0 is that the block selection mode
>seems to be activated of its own accord when I am scrolling through
>a text file. This is also annoying, and sometimes it is difficult
>to switch off and resume the normal editing mode. Pressing the 
>shift key on its own seems to make it easier to get back to the normal
>editing mode.

Now at this point I think it becomes really interesting....I would have
gone over to another PC and borrowed it's keyboard....

>I should mention that I have syntax highlighting active. As yet, I
>have not worked with it deactivated.
>
>Any suggestions as to how to fix these problems would be greatly
>appreciated.

So,  :^)  what are you waiting for?  Disconnect your keyboard, plug a
known clean one in and try it?

And tell us what happens.

BTW, it's not big deal to move the BP.exe file to another machine and
test whether it does the very same on a "clean" machine.......  :^)

I'm not definitely sure that it's your keyboard, but I've got a flakely one
lying over in the corner that used to do nice tricks on me too.  :^)

>| Witold Waldman               | Aeronautical Research Laboratory     |

Steve
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