Leaving a textarea field
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For those of who are big keyboard users, Cmd-left-arrow (on the Mac) will take you to the beginning of the current line in any Mac application, including in web-based textarea fields. This works fine in Firefox/Mac in all web apps I know of.
But for some reason, hitting Cmd-left-arrow while in an ActiveCollab textarea will cause the browser to go back to the previous page, which is the usual behavior when you're NOT currently editing a textarea.
In other words, you can type three paragraphs of content, hit Cmd-left-arrow as part of your normal editing process, and lose everything you just typed when the browser jumps back to the prev. page. Hit Forward on the browser, and everything you typed is gone.
I've lost a fair bit of work to this bug today! Thanks for looking into it.
But for some reason, hitting Cmd-left-arrow while in an ActiveCollab textarea will cause the browser to go back to the previous page, which is the usual behavior when you're NOT currently editing a textarea.
In other words, you can type three paragraphs of content, hit Cmd-left-arrow as part of your normal editing process, and lose everything you just typed when the browser jumps back to the prev. page. Hit Forward on the browser, and everything you typed is gone.
I've lost a fair bit of work to this bug today! Thanks for looking into it.
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Argh! It just happened again, but this time with cmd-forward. I just can't seem to train my fingers to stop doing that - I've been editing text that way for years.
Interesting - it doesn't happen on the textarea fields on this forum - only in AC itself.
Interesting - it doesn't happen on the textarea fields on this forum - only in AC itself.
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Ilija Studen
on Oct 23. 2007. 8:58 am
Hi shacker,
Browsers have strange implementations of visual editors (they are actually editable web pages inside of other web pages). For instance, WYMeditor suffers from the same issue. Visit their demo page here:
http://demo.wymeditor.org/
And select version 0.4. Hit Cmd + Left...
Possible solution is to disable visual editor in your profile? Without visual editor you can use basic HTML (a, b, i, del, span etc) for formatting and activeCollab will preserve break lines for you.
Browsers have strange implementations of visual editors (they are actually editable web pages inside of other web pages). For instance, WYMeditor suffers from the same issue. Visit their demo page here:
http://demo.wymeditor.org/
And select version 0.4. Hit Cmd + Left...
Possible solution is to disable visual editor in your profile? Without visual editor you can use basic HTML (a, b, i, del, span etc) for formatting and activeCollab will preserve break lines for you.
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Ilja - Check out WordPress, which also uses a visual editor (TinyMCE). If using the visual editor in WP and you hit one of these keys, it blocks on a javascript popup dialog asking "Are you sure you want to navigate away from this page? All changes will be lost." I'd recommend looking into a solution like that.
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Ilija Studen
on Oct 23. 2007. 7:10 pm
Hi shacker,
Feature you are suggesting is already built into activeCollab. You don't get "Are you sure you want to navigate away from this page?" confirmation dialog when leaving a form without saving the changes?
Feature you are suggesting is already built into activeCollab. You don't get "Are you sure you want to navigate away from this page?" confirmation dialog when leaving a form without saving the changes?
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Hi Ilja - No, I don't get that dialog in Firefox/Mac (hence the report above). Whether I hit Cmd-left/right arrow (which I do often) or Cmd-W to close the window, (which I never do accidentally) I lose my place and all the text I've typed in so far.
Comparing to Safari now... In Safari you don't get the visual editor, so this problem doesn't apply. However when I hit Cmd-W in Safari I DO get that popup dialog.
Note that AC could use some Safari testing - layout in general is pretty whacky in Safari.
Comparing to Safari now... In Safari you don't get the visual editor, so this problem doesn't apply. However when I hit Cmd-W in Safari I DO get that popup dialog.
Note that AC could use some Safari testing - layout in general is pretty whacky in Safari.
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Goran Radulović
on Oct 24. 2007. 6:02 am
Hi shacker, we fixed safari layout problems in 1.0.3 version. Can you please specify your problems with layout and your activecollab version.
Thanks
Thanks
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Hi Goran - I'm looking all over in the AC interface and in the installation files, but am not finding any reference to the version or build #. Where do I find this (would be good to include at the bottom of the page in the Admin section of AC, or in a version.txt in the distribution).
Thanks,
Scot
Thanks,
Scot
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Ilija Studen
on Oct 25. 2007. 6:11 am
Hi Scot,
Version information is listed in the bottom of the Administration page. If you have a version older than v1.0.2 you will not see it. More here.
Note: There is a problem on some specific setups. If you are sure that you have upgraded and system still does not display the version number you will need to delete all the files from /compile directory to force Smarty to rebuild them.
Version information is listed in the bottom of the Administration page. If you have a version older than v1.0.2 you will not see it. More here.
Note: There is a problem on some specific setups. If you are sure that you have upgraded and system still does not display the version number you will need to delete all the files from /compile directory to force Smarty to rebuild them.
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Thanks - Upgrading AC and emptying the compile dir caused the version # to appear. In 0.7 there was a clear notice when updates were available. Does 1.x have a similar mechanism to let us know when new versions are out? (we were still on 1.0, and had no idea there were updates).
Note: This upgrade hasn't changed anything re: Not getting an alert when navigating away from a page with a textarea in Firefox/Mac.
However, the layout in Safari looks great now! Thanks.
Note: This upgrade hasn't changed anything re: Not getting an alert when navigating away from a page with a textarea in Firefox/Mac.
However, the layout in Safari looks great now! Thanks.
