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Backspace Deleting Everything in Text Field

Aug 28, 2010 Surbius link
Example: Clicking once with the mouse into a text field and pressing backspace once will delete all text within that field.
Aug 28, 2010 raybondo link
That's a feature, not a bug. Its origins are from way back in the before time.
Aug 28, 2010 raybondo link
Hmm, then again, i think it's only supposed to delete all text if the cursor was at the end of the line. I'll look into it.
Sep 10, 2010 Alloh link
Note: It only happens to me while docked.
Sep 18, 2010 tarenty link
Can someone please FIX THIS?

I just deleted an entire year's worth of mission notes because I went to fix a spelling error. Also, is there any way to get those back? :-(
Sep 18, 2010 diqrtvpe link
I like having it for the chatbox, just because hitting esc when the chatbox is active in a station no longer erases the text, just drops you to the options menu. So I really like that this is there. But I don't think it needs to be present for any other persistent text fields.
Sep 18, 2010 yodaofborg link
I just deleted an entire year's worth of mission notes because I went to fix a spelling error. Also, is there any way to get those back? :-(

There is one way, by having a backup of (your crappy username here)missions.txt. It is client side so yeah, you lost it. Who in hell would need a whole year of mission notes though? At least after 6 months you should have a grip on how VO saves things, and you expect me to believe that you are older than 7 years of age?

Oh shit, rant over.

Maybe this is a niggle. But anyone who does not have anything important to them backed up is a fool.
Sep 18, 2010 tarenty link
...yoda, those were recorded sales' times, people, items, prices, places, etc. from the shop-like thing I run.

Yes, I was a fool for not backing it up. But, the problem didn't exist until a few weeks ago, and I didn't think it applied to everything, just the chat box.
Sep 19, 2010 Pizzasgood link
There should be an undo, if there isn't already.
Sep 20, 2010 incarnate link
That's really awful, tarenty. Unfortunately, there's no way to recover it that's specific to our app, although you might get something out a program that recovers from your filesystem type.

We'll look into the issue. Eventually a lot of this stuff is slated to go server-side, to make it persistent across installs.
Sep 21, 2010 tarenty link
Ok, thanks for looking into it. I can do without, I'm just upset I don't have them to check for inventory purposes.