|Posted: January 5, 2013, 5:02 pm - IP Logged|
I do have some more information about using the text editor on an iPad.
The iPad's support for advanced text editing has only been around since iOS 5, so it's still a bit buggy. There is a work-around if the cursor "freezes up", and when you type letters on the keyboard nothing changes.
To "un-freeze" it, click the button in the bottom-right corner of the on-screen keyboard, which makes the keyboard go away. Then, click into the text editor again to start typing again.
Unfortunately, if there is anything on the same page as a text editor that responds to touch, then it exposes this text entry freezing problem. And the Lottery Post blue menu bar responds to touch in order to show the menus.
So the only ways I have come up with to deal with this are:
- Keep everything the way it is, and dismiss the keyboard and re-enter the text entry space to make it come back (the work-around described above).
- Not show the menu bar on any pages with a text editor.
- Switch to the Simple Codes editor for the iPad.
So #1 and #3 are things that can be controlled by you, but implementing #2 is something I would have to do on my end.
What do you think? Should I disable the blue menu bar for pages that have a text editor? (For iPad users only, of course) The pages with text editors do have a Cancel button that brings you back to the previous page, so maybe it makes sense until Apple decides to fix the bug.