IT29553: UNABLE TO SELECT TEXT USING KEYBOARD CURSOR WHEN TRIM OPTION IS SET TO WINDOWS STYLE (FOR JAWS USERS)

IBM Personal Communications 13.0.3
IBM Personal Communications 12.0.5
IBM Personal Communications 14.0.1

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• When setting Trim to Windows Style, and selecting the desired
  text using only the keyboard controls Shift+cursor (for JAWS
  users), unable to select the desired text, because the cursor
  pointer keeps on going back to it's initial (recent) location.
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• ****************************************************************
  * USERS AFFECTED:                                              *
  * All IBM Personal Communications users                        *
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  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION:                                         *
  * Text selection starts from the 0,0 coordinates if the caret  *
  * position is not set by a mouse click. If the caret is set by *
  * a mouse click and then changed by the arrow keys, text       *
  * selection will start from the last mouse click position.     *
  ****************************************************************
  * RECOMMENDATION:                                              *
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  Steps to recreate the problem:
  1. Open PCOM display session
  2. Connect to host
  3. Go to Settings Menu - Edit - Trim (tab) - Select Windows
  Style
  4. Press shift + arrow key to select text from the Presentation
  Space
  Case 1
      Windows style text selection starts from upper left corner
  (0,0 co-ordinate position)
  Case 2
      Set the caret position by a mouse click and change the caret
  position using the arrow key. Now, the text selection will start
  from the position marked by the mouse click
  

Problem conclusion

• This issue is observed due to a problem in setting the starting
  position of text selection. When the user moves the caret
  position by using the arrow keys, the starting position needs to
  be dynamically updated.
  PCSWS.EXE has been changed to set the text selection starting
  position using the current caret location.
  Fix scheduled for PCOM 12.0.5 and 13.0.3 and 14.0.1 Refresh
  Packs
  

Temporary fix

Comments

APAR Information

• APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

• APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

Modules/Macros

• PCSWS
  

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  PCOMM COMBO-ENG

• Fixed component ID

  5639I7000

Applicable component levels

• RC00 PSY

     UP

• RD00 PSY

     UP