EA 8 removes spaces in notes' text!

[Diego77]

Hi there. Now this is the weirdest thing yet!

I recently moved to a new job, where I convinced my boss to go EA for our needs. So we installed EA 8 build 864 (trial edition) on our computers running Windows 7 pro.

All seems to go well until I type some text in a "Notes" box in a class' properties. I exit the elemnt properties and, abracadabra, my text is a mess! Seems like EA 8 has removed all my spaces, so that "This is a text" has become "Thisisatest"!

Tried to disable the spell check feature, but it didn't help (thought EA might be wrongly parsing the entered text...).
The workarounds I found is either typing double spaces in my notes or typing my text in notepad++ and copy-paste it in the notes editor!  

Now this is either a very silly bug on Windows 7 or the most obvious thing, but I can't figure out...

Anyone had a similar issue?

Tnx for the help!

Diego

[Paolo F Cantoni]

Hi Diego,

If you haven't already, open a Notes window [Ctrl+Shift+1] and see if the spaces get gobbled up there too.

I suspect a third party product may be interfering.  I had some keystrokes stolen once before.  So maybe disable as many of those as you can to track it down.

I've been running Windows 7 (32 & 64 bit)  for a fair while now with no problems.

HTH,
Paolo

[Diego77]

Hello Paolo,

Just tried your suggestion regarding the Notes window, but I still have the issue...
The keystrokes-stelaing software might be a possibility, even though the Windows 7 image I've got installed is a fresh one, so there's almost nothing "extra" at the moment except EA and eclipse...

However I'd like to point out that it is not the key strokes that are stolen, it's really the spaces after EA stores the text!
It goes like this:
1) I open a field (F9) or method (F10) property window, or a select it and use the Notes window to type some text.
2) I type my text: it is typed on-screen correctly, with all spaces: "This is a test".
3) I either save the method/field properties (alt + s or click on "Save"), or I exit the "Notes" window.
4) EA apparently refreshes the content of the typed text.
5) The text reappears, but not it shows "Thisisatest".

So if a thrid-party software would steal my spaces, I would expect it to take them as I type them, not after a save... Am I wrong?

I suspect there's some sort of "conversion" between the moment I save and the moment it returns from the project's .EAP file to be displayed on-screen...

Also, I noted that, once I get the text to appear correctly (for example by typing double spaces), I can copy-paste the text in another note and it is saved correctly!
However when I edit an "ok" text and add words, EA removes the space from the edition, BUT NOT FROM THE PART OF THE TEXT THAT WAS NOT MODIFIED!!!

Weird, huh?

[qwerty]

I remember some similar strange typing behavior being reported here some months ago but I can't remember the thread.

My suspect: the spaces are translated into some strange char which appears as space during typing but are zapped when EA stores the text.

Most likely it's not a (direct) EA bug but some strange battle with another application.

q.

[Eve]

Unless I'm mistaken it's a problem in one of our supporting libraries with French keyboard layouts.

I believe we have made a prerelease of an 8.0 patch available to users who have reported this issue through the official support channels.

[Diego77]

Hi Simon,

Indeed we were using The “Belgian French” keyboard for the “French (Belgium)” input language.
Following you advice I have set a “French (France)” input language with a “Belgian (Period)” keyboard setting.
This solved the issue at the moment.

Thanks you all for your (very fast) help!

Diego

[Geert Bellekens]

Simon,

I was the (or one of) user that reported that problem, and I certainly didn't get a 8.0 patch for this bug.
We are now still on 7.5 only because of that issue.

I did verify however that this is fixed in version 9.

Geert

[wim]

Hi, I have exact the same issue but I am running on windows xp sp3.
Do you already found the solution ?  I have to type a space twice

[Geert Bellekens]

Wim,

The solution has been provided in the next version (v9) which is currently in beta.

Geert

[wim]

Hi, thanks. I have temporary fixed the issue by changing to French / French (Belgian Period)