Cursor jumps to the end of TEXT_AREA box as I type

Classic Servoy
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We have a servoy-based help system where we track tickets with our customers.

We’ve found that if we’re in a text_area field, and as we’re typing, if there is text that exists after where the cursor currently is, randomly the cursor will jump to the end of the text in that field. In the middle of typing a word!

I thought I’d read something about this a long time ago, but I can’t find anything that relates to what we’re experiencing.

Does anyone know anything about this? It happens in all browsers (that we’ve seen) and on both Windows and Mac.

We’re on Servoy 4.1.6 (our server is on a linux box if that matters)

Thanks,

Chico

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when this happens does the datanotification icon lights up (a blue icon in the status bar becomes visible)?

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I will check…

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Sorry… this occurs in the web client.

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if you turn of ajax data notification (servoy.webclient.datanotify.frequency to 0) do you see it then?

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It is blank right now. If I change it to 0, I assume I have to restart the server?

If so, I will have to answer you later as I’d have to wait.

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yes 0 will disable the datanotify
Cant you reproduce this locally?

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Setting it to 0 seems to make things work much better. Sorry for the delay on the answer. :) Thanks for the help.

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but if that is the case then the server thinks that the textarea is constantly changing because of some data change.
So we redraw the text area on the data notify.

then it should be figured out why it constantly is seeing a change and pushing a new textarea to the client.

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We have had this problem intermittently in Smart Client 5.2.2. User is typing away in a TEXTAREA and suddenly realises that cursor has left the field and the all typing after that point has been lost. At the weekend I came across a note in the documentation that a field could loose focus if Servoy performs a save.

I have now added a databaseManager.saveData() when users enter the field to see if this cures the problem.