I’m having a problem editing a large body of text.
The cursor does not appear where the actual cursor is. In the first pic attached, you can clearly see where my cursor is located but when I hit the backspace, The letter T in the word BEFORE the cursor is deleted as you see in pic 2. The 3rd pic just shows how large the body of the text is.
I do not seem to have this issue with smaller text bodies. This is making it very difficult to edit many of my jobs. I’ve had this issue for several releases but just dealt with it and not posted this question. Any ideas?
Just a clarification…the icon you’re showing in that photo is the mouse icon…it’s where your mouse is pointing, but not necessarily where the editing cursor is. When you click the mouse, the editing cursor goes to where the mouse cursor is. Are you clicking before you edit?
Of course, even that still wouldn’t explain why the editing cursor is not visible. Perhaps it’s a color thing? Could the cursor color be getting set to the same as the text background?
Any chance you’d be willing to send us the lbrn project file for this so we can take a look? Hopefully it’s something easy enough to debug, but I’m unable to reproduce it.
In the meantime, select, then right click on the text you want to edit and choose “Edit Text Shape”. This will give you a normal text edit box to use - you can still pan and zoon the main design and you will see that the design text updates to match in realtime.
I’m actually able to reproduce it with v1.0.04 - I’m going to poke @LightBurn about it since he’s way more familiar with the text rendering and cursor placement.
OK. All the info for debugging purposes: I did not have the font that was in that file and LB/Windows substituted its own. The text appeared backwards (flipped horizontally), which I’m assuming is a font issue, not a LB issue. I ungrouped the object and clicked into the text and was able to delete characters at the point of click.
Adam, I am using 1.02 currently but I’ve had this off and on since probably .0.94. It does not happen all the time but enough for it to be an issue. It only seems to be an issue with these large text files.
Joe, thank you. Jason recommended using the text editor this morning on a FB page. I did not know that was available. Using it today, it is quickly becoming a favorite feature of mine. I am not sure what you’re talking about 3 leading tabs. I think you’re referring to the spaces. Would that have an effect on the rest of the text? I noticed this after Jason recommended the text editor and corrected the file.
