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Control + A not working properly

Has someone noticed that in certain text entry fields, the cursor in Trados Studio 2019 does not seem to indicate the same place where the pointer is? Let me explain. Control A is a shortcut that hightlights the entire contents of the field where the cursor is located. While that ALWAYS Works in the target text field in the Trados Editor , that is not the case in other text entry fields such as the Concordance Search field, or the Termbase Search field.

 

It is as Trados knows the cursor is at a certain place (allowing introduction of text, for instance) but believes it's in a different place when using shortcuts.

 

for example, let's take the Concordance search text entry field.

Screenshot showing the cursor blinking in the Concordance Search text entry field of Trados Studio, with a concordance result also selected in blue.

In the case shown in the picture above, the cursor is blinking in the Concordance Search text entry box, but a Concordance result is also selected in blue. To see what happens, I initially clicked on the concordance result and THEN i clicked in the text field (where plasdticsd appears). In this situation, if I press a key, it will appear in the text field, BUT if I press Control+A, the entire concordance result will be selected instead, as this image below shows.

Screenshot demonstrating the issue in Trados Studio where pressing Ctrl+A highlights a concordance result instead of the text in the entry field where the cursor is blinking.

 

 

That is a wrong behaviour, but what makes it worse is that even though in this case I have been able to identify the problem, in others I haven't. Simply, Control-A does not work because apparently Trados is lost or confused as to where it should apply the Ctrl-A shortcut.

 

This is somewhat important because I use some Autohotkey scripts that need to be able to select an entire text entry field! I can safely declare this problem NEVER happened in Trados 2017.



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[edited by: Trados AI at 4:27 PM (GMT 0) on 28 Feb 2024]
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    Ignacio Niveiro said:
    I can safely declare this problem NEVER happened in Trados 2017.

    I can reproduce this behaviour if I do things in a particular way, and it happens in 2019 AND 2017.  It is very strange and I will log this with development, but I don't believe this is anything new.  These are the steps:

    1. Select a word from the source in the Editor
    2. Press F3 to run a concordance
    3. Click in the target of the concordance result
    4. Click in the concordance "Search box"
    5. Press Ctrl+A

    This will highlight all the text in the target result of the concordance that you clicked into in 3.

    The workround is simple using the keyboard.  Just do this:

    1. Select a word from the source in the Editor
    2. Press F3 to run a concordance
    3. Click in the target of the concordance result
    4. Press F3

    This will leave the word you had previously entered into the search box selected.  Perhaps that will help you with your AHK scripts and in the meantime I will log this rather strange behaviour with development.

    Paul Filkin | RWS

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  •  , 

    Ignacio Niveiro said:
    I can safely declare this problem NEVER happened in Trados 2017.

    I can reproduce this behaviour if I do things in a particular way, and it happens in 2019 AND 2017.  It is very strange and I will log this with development, but I don't believe this is anything new.  These are the steps:

    1. Select a word from the source in the Editor
    2. Press F3 to run a concordance
    3. Click in the target of the concordance result
    4. Click in the concordance "Search box"
    5. Press Ctrl+A

    This will highlight all the text in the target result of the concordance that you clicked into in 3.

    The workround is simple using the keyboard.  Just do this:

    1. Select a word from the source in the Editor
    2. Press F3 to run a concordance
    3. Click in the target of the concordance result
    4. Press F3

    This will leave the word you had previously entered into the search box selected.  Perhaps that will help you with your AHK scripts and in the meantime I will log this rather strange behaviour with development.

    Paul Filkin | RWS

    Design your own training!
    You've done the courses and still need to go a little further, or still not clear? 
    Tell us what you need in our Community Solutions Hub

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