Question

Hello
Using twiki with GnuSkin and IE 5.5 we cannot highlight text in the edit screen. At most we can highlight 1 or 2 characters at a time.

I have looked around and no one else has expressed such an issue.

Ideas?

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-- JonOwen - 30 Jan 2003

Answer

This looks like a skin or IE issue, perhaps you could Google for similar IE problems and also check in GnuSkin?

-- RichardDonkin - 08 Feb 2003

I have a vague memory of encountering something similar before (outside twiki). As I recall, I was able to use the keyboard to make selections. E.g. SHIFT--Down-Arrow to select a line, SHIFT--Ctrl--Right-Arrow to select a word, etc.

-- MattWilkie - 08 Feb 2003

Google has provided little help on this issue and we currently highlight using the shift-arrow key method. Odd that it works as expected in tiger skin and default but not GnuSkin.

-- JonOwen - 14 Feb 2003

IE is for the moment not supported - simply because I don't have a Windows installation at home to test the GNUskin on. The upcoming releases of GnuSkin might fix your problem, but then it's by pure accident.

Your problem is very odd, but if it only happens in edit then it might be old JavaScript residue left in the edit template. Skim through the templates/edit.gnu.tmpl (or similar) and see if you can find anything not quite kosher HTML (i.e. JavaScript). There was a mention on GnuSkinPluginDev a while ago on this issue.

I've promised a new release for a while now, but within the coming weeks I can now say I'll at least have the time to work on the remaining issues and release a 1.2 (for Athens) and a 2.0 (for Beijing).

-- JoachimNilsson - 24 Feb 2003

I have the same problem with IE 6.0, GnuSkin and the Feb. 03 TWiki. You can't use the mouse cursor in the edit box. When I turn on errors in IE, the error dialog pops up with an error like "Object not found at character 1, Line 10, then the same error around line 60. I haven't had a chance to debug it yet, but I wonder if it's related to removing support for the "fanceyEdit" panel, which was implemented in jscript. I'll see if I can track down the bad code.

-- RozAdmin - 20 Mar 2003

After some poking around, I found some calls to initForm() in the edit.gnu.tmpl file. Removing those seemed to fix the browser errors. I asuume those calls were for the fanceEdit javascipt code. All is better now.

-- RozAdmin - 21 Mar 2003