Wiped all formulas

Panorama X Beta 10.2
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Has anyone else run into the following:

  1. Switch a form with many (many!) text editor or text display objects to “graphics” mode
  2. Select an object that uses a formula
  3. Start editing the formula
  4. Hit “Command-A” to select all the text in the formula
  5. At this point, it sometimes selects all the objects in the form
  6. All the text in ALL the formulas for ALL the objects is deleted!!

At this point, undo (Command-Z) does not restore anything and the form is useless.

Has this been observed by anyone else?

Or am I just “lucky”? :wink:

I’m grateful for backups … without those, I’d have to completely redo the form! :face_without_mouth:

Thanks for listening – just needed to vent a bit. :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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  1. At this point, it sometimes selects all the objects in the form

Maybe I just didn’t try hard enough, but I couldn’t get it to ever do this. It always only selected the text in the property field.

  1. All the text in ALL the formulas for ALL the objects is deleted!!

I’m guessing you left out a step - you probably pressed the DELETE key for this to happen?

Nevertheless, I could not duplicate this. For me, only the text in the formula field property was deleted, and also I could Undo without any problem.

I tried it about a dozen times without any problem, then I got bored.

  1. Start editing the formula

I am assuming this means click on the formula. That’s what I did. I don’t think there is any other way to start editing the formula, but let me know if you did something different.

If I don’t click on the formula, then pressing Command-A select all objects, and the Delete deletes all the objects. Not just the formulas, the entire objects are deleted. But Undo will bring them back.

Or am I just “lucky”? :wink:

Well I don’t know about your luck, but I am puzzled.

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Yeah … sounds right. :slight_smile:

When I hit the “Delete” key, only the text was highlighted. However, after it completed, all the objects in the form were highlighted … which is when I suspected all the text in all the form objects had been deleted. Which, it turns out, it had.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t happen every time … or even often. Intermittent … and, I have not discovered the exact steps or conditions. :frowning:

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The really sucky problem was that Command-z (Edit > Undo) did not work!!!

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When I hit the “Delete” key, only the text was highlighted. However, after it completed, all the objects in the form were highlighted

I definitely cannot duplicate this at all. And knowing how the code works, it’s very difficult to imagine how pressing the Delete key could change the selection of objects. That would sort of be like dropping a box of Lego pieces on the ground and having them bounce into a fully assembled cathedral.

If I select a bunch of Text objects, I can then click into the formula editor and change all of the formulas at once. But Undo does work after that operation, at least for me.