Forum: SDL Trados support
Topic: Deacitivate overwriting in Studio 2009?
Poster: Lianne van de Ven
Post title: fn+enter is a mac issue, not a solution to the original problem
I have (had) Studio 2011 on my windows 7 system going into overwrite mode all the time. It is rather simple to use the insert key on a regular windows keyboard (or fn+enter on a mac) to toggle the function "overwrite versus insert," but the problem is that this change of function shouldn't happen in the first place.
I think it is a bug in Studio. I wonder if the issue might be related to double clicking a word in the source in order to initiate a concordance search, which accidentally inserts the source into the target, possibly overwriting the translation that you have already entered. This can simply be undone by using ctrl+z, but we should not have to undo unintended actions all the time while translating.
It is for this reason, double clicking in the source, that I have played around with redefining the shortcut for "copy source to target." This is a very important shortcut that should not have to be disabled for Studio to work right. I have not not seen the problem in a while, but it just started happening again.
Currently, I am trying a shortcut that does not involve the INS key (crtl+alt+'), but I have also restarted Studio, as suggested elsewhere in this or other threads, to see if this helps. Maybe it is true, as someone suggested, that lifting the control key first after using ctrl+ins to copy source to target, is what unintentionally toggles the ins-over function.
However, I don't know what it means, as far as keyboard shortcut issues is concerned, that this apparently also happens on a mac, albeit running on windows? That suggest a programming issue rather than keyboard/hardware problems?
PS: I do not have the Google Translate Client running on my system. But that, of course, does not exclude a software conflict. I never have keyboard issues with any of my other programs, though.
[Edited at 2014-04-13 16:48 GMT]
Topic: Deacitivate overwriting in Studio 2009?
Poster: Lianne van de Ven
Post title: fn+enter is a mac issue, not a solution to the original problem
I have (had) Studio 2011 on my windows 7 system going into overwrite mode all the time. It is rather simple to use the insert key on a regular windows keyboard (or fn+enter on a mac) to toggle the function "overwrite versus insert," but the problem is that this change of function shouldn't happen in the first place.
I think it is a bug in Studio. I wonder if the issue might be related to double clicking a word in the source in order to initiate a concordance search, which accidentally inserts the source into the target, possibly overwriting the translation that you have already entered. This can simply be undone by using ctrl+z, but we should not have to undo unintended actions all the time while translating.
It is for this reason, double clicking in the source, that I have played around with redefining the shortcut for "copy source to target." This is a very important shortcut that should not have to be disabled for Studio to work right. I have not not seen the problem in a while, but it just started happening again.
Currently, I am trying a shortcut that does not involve the INS key (crtl+alt+'), but I have also restarted Studio, as suggested elsewhere in this or other threads, to see if this helps. Maybe it is true, as someone suggested, that lifting the control key first after using ctrl+ins to copy source to target, is what unintentionally toggles the ins-over function.
However, I don't know what it means, as far as keyboard shortcut issues is concerned, that this apparently also happens on a mac, albeit running on windows? That suggest a programming issue rather than keyboard/hardware problems?
PS: I do not have the Google Translate Client running on my system. But that, of course, does not exclude a software conflict. I never have keyboard issues with any of my other programs, though.
[Edited at 2014-04-13 16:48 GMT]