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[ESpringer]

I see that from the keyboard I can get the focus to the Suggestions window with the "Suggest Spelling" keyboard command.

But the focus always goes to the suggestions list, from which I could have chosen using the keyboard anyway. When the needed word is *not* suggested, that's when I need to change focus to the hovering window, and I want to go to the highlighted text field, but instead the focus switches to the list and I have to use the tab key or mouse. There's no shortcut listed in the SpellCatcher pref pane to move keyboard focus to the *text field* in the "Suggest Spelling" pane, right?

And all of this just makes me reach for the mouse, since by now I may as well position the cursor to add the missing letter or whatever. In that case, often my first mouse click is exactly at the position where I want to type, and I find it a bit irksome that the whole word still gets selected. If I click to the left or right of the word, I want to retype the darn word from scratch. If I place the cursor within the word, it's usually because I'm ready to do surgical repair. But as things stand I have to click-wait-click to do that. (A double-click *still* selects the whole word, after all.)

Thanks for all your work!

-ESpringer

[Evan Gross]

You should always be able to tab from the suggestions list to the word to "Use:".

NOW - if you have (System Preferences, Keyboard & Mouse, Keyboard Shortcuts) the option to tab to all controls on, shift-tab is the fastest way from the list to the text field. Otherwise, just tab.

As for the behavior where clicking in the text field selects the text - I'll have to take a look to see what's going on there. Might be a Cocoa behavior, might be something I'm doing, not sure yet.

[Evan Gross]

ESpringer, on Jul 12 2005, 05:10 PM, said:

And all of this just makes me reach for the mouse, since by now I may as well position the cursor to add the missing letter or whatever. In that case, often my first mouse click is exactly at the position where I want to type, and I find it a bit irksome that the whole word still gets selected. If I click to the left or right of the word, I want to retype the darn word from scratch. If I place the cursor within the word, it's usually because I'm ready to do surgical repair. But as things stand I have to click-wait-click to do that. (A double-click *still* selects the whole word, after all.)

-ESpringer

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OK, took a look at this to see if I could reproduce it, but I can't. Clicking in the "Use:" text field once doesn't select the entire word as you state, it puts the insertion point right where I clicked (like you say you'd like it to do).

So I need more detail - OS version, Spell Catcher X version, the application you're in, and an actual step-by-step sequence of keystrokes and mouse clicks to reproduce the problem.

For me, at least, it's working exactly the way you say you want it to work (and as it should work)...but maybe I'm missing something or we're not using the same version of Spell Catcher or something like that...