Strange cursor behaviour

[Brian C.]

If I remember correctly, the 'nudges' that the cursor keys provide  
are not fixed with the canvas, but with the shape. So, if you rotate  
a shape and use the arrow keys, you can get the behavior you're  
seeing. I'm betting the shapes in question that are behaving this way  
are rotated 90 degrees in the geometry inspector.

Another possibility would be that you're nudging something that's set  
up as a line label. In that context, up/down arrow move you forward/ 
backward along the line, and left/right move your offset away/toward  
the line. This could also create situations where you hit the up  
arrow and move towards the bottom of your document...

After a quick consultation with Greg on this, I'm opening a new item  
in our database to take another look at these behaviors and see if we  
can make them more intuitive, but for the time being, hopefully that  
helps you figure out what's going on in your documents...

Sincerely,

Brian C.
Support & QA Manager
Omni Group




On Feb 25, 2006, at 12:00 PM, omnigraffle-users-request at omnigroup.com  
wrote:

> From: "Mark R. Hilton" <mark_hilton at mac.com>
> Subject: Strange cursor behaviour
> To: omnigraffle-users at omnigroup.com
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>> From time to time, I have found that periodically the cursor keys  
>> in OG
> 4 get re-assigned, so that up-down becomes left-right, and left-right
> act becomes up-down. I can't be more specific than that, as it has
> always happened when I have been working under time pressure and
> haven't been able to give the time to working out what I have done  
> that
> may have caused it; I have merely had to work round it. It happened
> last week using OG4 and has happened a few times before, it may have
> been when using some version of OG3 too. It is weird enough when it
> happens to be memorable, but everything is always back to normal next
> time the computer is booted up and OG restarted.
>
> I am using a TiBook 400/640MB. I try not to have too many apps running
> at the same time. In general, they will be Omni-Outliner, Gyazmail and
> Spamsieve, perhaps Nisus Writer Express, Keynote or OmniWeb. All my
> apps are fully up-to-date and I'm running 10.4.5, which I suspect is
> the last version of the system that I'll be able to run on this poor
> old, slow-coach!
>
> Seeing William Conable's posting put me in mind of this periodic
> strange behaviour. Next time it happens, I'll try and make a note of
> what I'm doing at the time.
>
> Regards
> Mark