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From: hyland@kvasir.UUCP (Steve Hyland)
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Subject: XRay Text Edit Widget
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Date: Tue, 1-Dec-87 12:55:13 EST
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I know, I know. I should forget V10 and get on with V11.

However, the IR&D project I'm working on uses 10 and I have a problem
with the Text Edit Editor in XRay. I would assume others have had a
similar problem and there is an available fix.

The problem: 

If I provide a default for the editor, it appears in the box - no problem.
If the user backspaces from the end of the string to the beginning, they
can no longer enter text. If they position the cursor at the beginning of
the string and start typing, rather than backspacing to that position, they
can enter text.

Similarly, if there is no default string, indicated by an ascii.nul in the
first position of the buffer, they will be unable to enter text in the field.

Although I'm writing this in Ada, the C programmers we have here are
experiencing a similar problem. Could someone point me to the fix, or
fixes we need to overcome this ?

Thanks in advance,

Steve Hyland
SAIC