up/down arrow in InputRequester move/select by character

[Quin]

To reproduce, run this very simple test program, and press your up/down arrow keys, or try to press shift+up/down arrow to select text.

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InputRequester("Test", "This is a test", "Text")

It seems to move you by character, for some super weird reason. With NVDA, the entire content of the line gets announced when I up/down arrow, but my cursor moves by one character to the left/right each time I press it.

// Moved from "Bugs - Windows" to "General Discussion" (Kiffi)

[User_Russian]

Then it's a WinAPI bug!

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If OpenWindow(0, 0, 0, 322, 100, "", #PB_Window_SystemMenu | #PB_Window_ScreenCentered)
  CreateWindowEx_(0, "edit", "Text", #WS_CHILD|#WS_VISIBLE, 8,  10, 306, 20, WindowID(0), 0, 0, 0)
  Repeat : Until WaitWindowEvent() = #PB_Event_CloseWindow
EndIf

You need to report this to Microsoft so they can fix it.

[Quin]

wtf...
I could've sworn this only happened in InputRequester, but it's any string gadget created by PB. Incredibly odd.
Will do some more testing and see if it's exclusive to PB, or the Windows API.

[BarryG]

It's not a bug. It's the way text fields have always worked in Windows. Try it in the "Find" field in Notepad.