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I found a strange behaviour (bug?) in Multiview.

Steps to reproduce:

1) Get any .lha file with a text file inside (I can reproduce it with this)
2) Double-click on the file
--> Unarc will come up with the contents of the .lha
3) Double-click on "HOSTS" (or respectively on your text file)
--> Multiview will come up showing the file
4) Now right-click in Multiview to bring up it's menu
5) Project/Save-as
--> Choose a path and a filename (doesn't matter what or where)
6) Click OK
--> The file will be created, but it will always be empty (Bug?)

The file Multiview displays is in fact temporarily saved in T: (and it's completely unpacked)
Why Multiview isn't able to save it while being opened from Unarc is beyond me though.

I think MultiView is saving a marked block of text of zero size.
I can save a file fine, but if I click on any character, and then save the file, it is empty.
If I save it again without clicking in the text, the whole text is saved again.

djg wrote:I think MultiView is saving a marked block of text of zero size.
I can save a file fine, but if I click on any character, and then save the file, it is empty.
If I save it again without clicking in the text, the whole text is saved again.

You are right...i never ever imagined that clicking *into* the Multiview window to make it active might cause Multiview to think i marked a character.

Maybe changing this behaviour to only *mark* something if at least one character has actually been marked will prevent others to report this behaviour in future

Thanks for the hint

Raziel wrote: You are right...i never ever imagined that clicking *into* the Multiview window to make it active might cause Multiview to think i marked a character.

Well, why would you if MultiView doesn't give you a clue?

Raziel wrote: Maybe changing this behaviour to only *mark* something if at least one character has actually been marked will prevent others to report this behaviour in future

That would be better, yes. And maybe have a separate menu item in the edit menu for saving selected text, and leave the Save As menu item in the project menu for saving the entire file.