PWB Text Highlight with Mouse Acts Strange After Search

ID Number: Q63059

1.00 1.10 | 1.00 1.10

MS-DOS | OS/2

buglist1.00 buglist1.10

Summary:

The click-and-drag method of selecting text with the mouse in the

Programmer's WorkBench (PWB) versions 1.0 and 1.1 sometimes works

incorrectly when used after a search function.

To reproduce this problem, do the following:

1. Select a word in the text using the mouse (double-click on a single

word).

2. Run the search function (select the Search menu, choose Find,

then OK).

3. Now try to highlight the text a few lines below the word you used

to search on (using the click-and-drag method).

The text will be highlighted starting at the original word that was

searched for, rather than at the starting mouse position.

To work around this problem, click the left button anywhere in the

text window, then perform the text highlight.

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in PWB versions 1.0 and

1.1. We are researching this problem and will post new information

here as it becomes available.

Additional reference words: 1.00 1.10