Text tool closes when I hit enter key

[Jefferson]

This happens on occasion, cured by a restart in the past and hopefully as I am writting this. Basically; select a string of text with tool selected, as soon as I hit the enter key it goes back to selected mode. This if you actually tried to work with it would mean separate strings of text for every phrase/sentence. It was the norm with the 2256 rebuild and the biggest reason I trashed it. You have time for that? I don't!

Does anyone else experience this and or have a convenient work around? I would certianly appreciate a cure.

[Ralph Wessel]

Jefferson wrote:
This happens on occasion, cured by a restart i the past and hopefully as I am writting this. Basically; select a string of text with tool selected, as soon as I hit the enter key it goes back to selected mode.

Use <return> to start a new line while entering the text, and <enter> when you are finished (in order to start a new block).

[Jefferson]

OK start laughing, the guy never learned how to type, so, the return key on my PC is which key?

T.I.A.

[henrypootel]

Since you are using a pc, the return and enter keys are both the same thing(MACs have one of each). Not sure what the problem is though.

[Jefferson]

Henry,

Thanks -.............. I get to remove the redfaced little dude. I thought possibly return and enter were one and the same but only have the occasional moments on a Mac. Seems we tend to think in terms of our own OS and forget about the other side. What do you guys call it, the Dark Side?

[__archiben]

think of 'enter' as confirmation of a data input and 'return' as in 'carriage return' (new line) on old typewriters.

whilst there is a very fine line between 'return' and 'enter' in the normal archiCAD working environment, the difference comes into play when using the text tool:

'return' does just what it usually does in word processing applications: it begins a new line of text, whereas 'enter' confirms that your text editing actions are complete and 'completes' the action.

i think that on machines without an 'enter' key, pressing Cmd + 'return' (Ctl + 'return' on a PC?), acts as 'enter'. if you're experiencing something different you may want to check that your keyboard mapping is correct: i.e. you are using a USA keyboard driver for your USA keyboard, etc., otherwise you may find that some of the keys get mapped to different keystrokes.

hope i'm right on this, i'm not 100%, but it may help . . .

~/archiben

[henrypootel]

The "Return" key is usually the bigger one which is part of the qwerty section of the keyboard. The "Enter" key is usually the smaller, vertical-bar type one on the numeric keypad. On my PC however, they are both labelled as "Enter" and both function the same way.

[Jefferson]

Ben,

When I press the key in that spot on my machine [a little page icon ]it brings up a contextual menu, undo,delete, select are the options. The "return" key is the "enter" key here, as well as the one on the numerical key pad. I am working this out as I type this reply and in AC it gives a grayed out contextual menu? Again my lack of typing background continues to bite me in the a$$. You can just imagine my fun with, say Word!

I will certianly give this a go the next time it acts up in AC though! Thanx for the efforts............I'll check into the driver,assuming I can find it. It's always something!

as Henry says they seem to be one and the same in function.......

[Anonymous]

The distinction between the Return for carriage return/line feed and Enter for accept/input data has been standard on the Mac for years. On PCs this is still not common and both keys are still labeled "enter" on all the PC keyboards I have seen. Some (most?) PC laptops have only one enter key which typically responds as a linefeed in text editing. Graphisoft implemented the feature on Windows in AC7 I think, but perhaps not all systems support it (my ThinkPads always have).

[Jefferson]

OK Matthew, your a cross user, and your thinkpads have a return key? I guess that's not really the point.

How literally do you "enter" [whos' on first?] a second, third line in the text tool? You tap which key? The enter key on my numeric pad closes the text tool [when it's behaving] and the enter key [what's on second?] to the right middle edge of the "standard" key set enters [I dunno's on third?]a new line.

In a way it's all moot until the problem reappears..........