Filed / Tracking LCD Screens - when entering text, where your cursor is, is not where you are typing [7339]

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  1. Deliverance

    Deliverance Ensign

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    Mode: Survival
    Mode: Single Player

    SERVER NAME: N/A
    SEED-ID: 998110

    If applicable:
    MODIFIED PLAYFIELDS: No

    Reproducibility: 50% of the time
    Severity: Crash – Minor

    Type: Global

    Summary: Where your cursor is showing in the input box, is not where you type appears

    Description: When inputting text, over several lines long, where your cursor is, is not where your text appears when typing. This isn’t a new bug, but I don’t see an existing bug report for it?

    It’s particularly frustrating when trying to create complex screens such as my whole ship status screens. Also can you please quadruple the number of charactors allowed to be typed in the LCD screen? Once you add positions and line heights it really maxes out quickly. P.s. all the warning signs on the screen shot and guns are all separate projects individually activated to track real time ship condition.

    Crash Log none A12 Test_2020-05-03_21-59-36.png
     
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  2. Pantera

    Pantera Administrator Staff Member

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    I was wondering can you also send me a save game or blueprint of the structure from the screenshot to have this particular example ?
     
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  3. Deliverance

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    Yes no problem, it will be a day or so.
     
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  4. Cömmander_Aslan

    Cömmander_Aslan Lieutenant

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    you know that very annoying bug when working with lcd's that the cursor isn't where it shows on the screen? im pretty sure I found the reason: spaces. Spaces when typing are a heck of a lot bigger than it actually projects in game, and it also messes with the cursor.
     
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  5. nottrox ¯\ (ツ) /¯

    nottrox ¯\ (ツ) /¯ Captain

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    This actully is pretty old and and i think it always happens always when the letters in the inbox get too many.
    Sorry i never reported it on my own :oops:
     
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  6. ravien_ff

    ravien_ff Rear Admiral

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    Yeah it's very easy to reproduce too. Just start typing into a lcd screen.
     
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  7. RedScourge

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    This bug also affects the Blueprint Group Name field in the Blueprints interface. If you type a wrong character, you basically have to back out of that screen as it is unusable. Also when the ship name field was full in Control panel recently and I tried to backspace, it started backspacing one of the signal group fields instead.
     
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  8. Hawkie

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    I have seen the same a lot of times. And it seems like it is just as someone mentioned here, with spaces and multiline text
     
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  9. rkendzi

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    I have had problems also with LCD's and the mouse position/cursor not being correct. Something I found that I think was causing some of the problem was not closing out size commands before using a different one. What I mean is if you use a <size=150%> then a few characters or lines later use a <size=175%> I believe this was causing me some issues. I started closing all sizes before changing to a different size. <size=150%>insert text here</size><size=175%>new text of different size</size>. This seemed to help.
    (if my syntax is off in the above example, sorry I'm at work & can't access the help page to verify my code) I think you should still get what I'm trying to say though.
     
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