Recently I’ve had a strange experience when editing a text field. Once I start typing text, there is NO WAY to finish editing using the keyboard. None of the usual tricks work: option-return, command-return, enter, or escape. The only way out is for me to take a hand off the keyboard, switch to the mouse, and click on another tool in the toolbar.
This happens in every document, old or new, and deleting the preference files (~/Library/Preferences com.PurgatoryDesign.Intaglio*) then restarting Intaglio didn’t help.
Has anyone encountered this before? Am I going crazy, or shouldn’t option-return (among other things) allow the user to finish editing a text field?
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p.s. to be clear, when I say “finish editing” I mean that the flashing cursor should go away, the text field object should be selected, and additional keystrokes should be interpreted as selecting another tool rather than adding text to the field.
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By the way, when I have a text object selected, I can BEGIN editing it using either Enter or option-return, so I know my keyboard is working and the keystrokes are being intercepted by Intaglio.
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Thanks for the graphic, Frank. Unfortunately that’s the key I was thinking of, and it doesn’t work. What’s very strange is that the enter key was working just a few hours ago. But now, not at all. I’m hoping someone reading this forum might have a suggestion for what settings I can fiddle with. Deleting the preferences hasn’t helped.
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Is this then maybe an OS X issue? I´m still on Yosemite. What are you on? And have you updated to the latest Intaglio build (3.9.4 • 28. January 2016)?
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I’m mostly interested in suggestions for which files might contain some kind of preferences or settings. Deleting the files named ~/Library/Preferences com.PurgatoryDesign.Intaglio* didn’t seem change the behavior.
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On Mar 8, 2016, at 1:41 PM, Jeff email@hidden wrote:
I’m running OS 10.9.5, Intaglio v 3.9.4.
I’m mostly interested in suggestions for which files might contain some kind of preferences or settings. Deleting the files named ~/Library/Preferences com.PurgatoryDesign.Intaglio* didn’t seem change the behavior.
Yep, it’s the latest Intaglio, freshly downloaded from the website. Reinstalling the app itself didn’t help.
Given that the malfunction is confined to cases where I’m editing text, I think some other part of Intaglio is intercepting the keystrokes, such as one of the inspector panes. These panes are context-dependent, insofar as when I start editing text a few of them change. For example, if I select a text object and hit Enter to begin editing, the Dimensions inspector has several elements that go from grayed out to being active. If some other inspector pane had a user interface element that also became active, it might be spuriously intercepting the Enter keystroke.
That’s why I’d like to try reseting all preferences. The only files I could find to delete are ~/Library/Preferences com.PurgatoryDesign.Intaglio*. There must be more, because deleting those doesn’t reset the inspector pane positions. Can anyone point me to where the additional settings are stored?
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I’m happy to report that I found a fix. The solution was to delete the system symbolichotkeys file and all Intaglio files I could find (listed below), then restart and zap the PRAM. When I put a copy of the deleted files back into their original places, the problem didn’t return, so I could safely return to my previous settings.
FYI, just deleting files and restarting wasn’t enough; the PRAM zap was critical. In retrospect, that step alone might have been sufficient.
Recently I’ve had a strange experience when editing a text field. Once I start typing text, there is NO WAY to finish editing using the keyboard. None of the usual tricks work: option-return, command-return, enter, or escape. The only way out is for me to take a hand off the keyboard, switch to the mouse, and click on another tool in the toolbar.
Jeff, I experienced something similar. I found that the line segment in the tool bar was locked. I had locked it using a right click. To unlock it, I right clicked line segment and unlocked. Have fun.
