Using scrollbars with a Wacom while editing text results in sticky cursor that will not stop scrolling
Using the handles in the horizontal and vertical scrollbars while text is being edited results in the cursor 'sticking' to the scrollbar and not releasing. Pressing esc, alt-tabbing away all seem to have no effect, after about 30s it stops and if I have minimised everything with Win+M. Unsure if it is purely time-based or not.
This only seems to occur when using a Wacom, the same interaction with a mouse does not suffer from the same sticky cursor.
Steps to repro:
- create a text object, and leave the cursor live inside the object. Doesn't seem to make a difference if any characters have been typed or not.
- using a wacom stylus (e.g. Inutos) click and drag on either the horizontal or vertical scoll handles. This should result in the scoll handle 'sticking' to the cursor (e.g. scrolling with all cursor movement), with no obvious way to release it.
- Clicking within the scrollbar also causes abnormal behaviour (instead of scrolling in the direction clicked relative to the handle), but this is harder to identify exactly what's going on. It locks the system up for a while, and appears to have stacked all the inputs while in the locked state.
Expected behaviour:
Clicking and dragging a scrollbar handle while editing text would be expected to scroll as normal, and either cancel the text edit in its current state, or keep the edit active, either would make sense.
Cheers.
Win 11, Illustrator 29.3.1.
Mike Choo
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@Egor thanks for that, didn't know about Alt in text mode, great tip. Also just discovered that holding Alt with selection tool active gives the distance to the edge of the artboard for the selected objects. Two new things learned today!
The scrollbar thing is definitely still there as a bug, but this is the first time I've run into it so the workaround is good for now, cheers!
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Mike, I was able to get this behavior twice, but then it stopped. I tried different combinations to trigger it but failed to make it happen again.
What I can advise you though is too just ignore scrollbars. While editing text, Ai goes in 'Type context', and some hotkeys work differently, and this includes Space. Use Alt instead — hold it and the tool would temporarily switch to Pan. Does it work for you?
