August 17, 200421 yr Reproducibly reliable, at least on Panther (10.3) and FM7.0v2: any letter-keystroke in my radio button related-value-list field causes FM to crash (unexpected quit). Background: I'm experimenting with the best kind of quick-select from a related list. I had been using pop-ups because of their easy arrow-or-type navigation, compared to portal rows with buttons, but pop-ups always max out at a dozen items or something like that before scrolling, and you can't see the list until you tab into the field. So, I liked radio button fields because they can show values in my choice of fonts, displaying as many values as exist if the field is made "tall" enough. It was nice: tab out of my global key field and there's the whole value list for instant scanning! Naturally, I wondered whether I could type-in to the radio-button value I want, rather than mousing. Alas, any keystroke brings the whole thing down! I'll see whether I can reproduce the problem in a clean dummy file... Aha, I can, with this clarification: it's exactly when the value-list includes only RELATED values. And: the same exact behaviors seem to happen when field is check-box formatted. (That is, if value-list involves "only related values", then a keystroke in the field will crash FM7.) Even if the value list doesn't employ a relation, keystroke-response in a Check Box or Radio Button field is irregular: sometimes it makes the tentative radio-button or tentative box outline "jump" to the right value, sometimes it does not... It seems to depend on whether there is a value already in the field, and which letter it is that one tries to use to navigate the tentative value. (Is there someplace I should have checked before posting to see whether FileMaker already knows about this?)
August 17, 200421 yr Bug confirmed. OS 10.3.2, FM7.0v2. Guess this means you'll have to disable your users' keyboards.
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