Annoying Text Field behaviour

[ElliotRock]

Why oh why does Macromedia have to make the current text field cursor point
spring to the top of the viewing area. I use Freehand to visually design, I
don't want the page springing around while I am typing. It hides what you have
just typed and ruins the flow of typing.

It is a very Annoying feature and if it could be turned off does any one know
how??

[John J Nosal]

Ellliot,

There are a couple of things you could try.

1) Turn off the option in the Text Preferences for "New text containers
auto-expand".

2) Instead of doing a simple click of the mouse to start a new text block
you could click and drag to define the area of the text block.

I might suggest that you read more about the Auto-Expanding text container
feature in the FreeHand online documentation. This would allow you to
identify the best use of this feature.

Regards,
John J Nosal
Product Team Liaison - FreeHand
Macromedia


"ElliotRock" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:cekdvb$krc$1@forums.macromedia.com...

> Why oh why does Macromedia have to make the current text field cursor

point

> spring to the top of the viewing area. I use Freehand to visually design,

I

> don't want the page springing around while I am typing. It hides what you

have

> just typed and ruins the flow of typing.
>
> It is a very Annoying feature and if it could be turned off does any one

know

> how??
>

[ElliotRock]

It is always something simple. Cheers John

peace