Text editing issue Revit 17

[mike]

Hi,

I have been having problems with Revit 17 text editing.

When I highlight text to replace it won't start replacing the text until I move my mouse again. Very frustrating!!!!

I realize this is a bug with the new '17 text editing changes, but is anyone actually working on fixing these stupid problems yet?

Regards,

[sraynor]

This is still an issue in Revit 2022. Why can't Revit's text input operate like EVERYTHING ELSE IN WINDOWS?

[RobDraw]

Why ask why? Would knowing why make you better?

[paul_brickler]

RobDraw:  Why bother posting the least helpful commentary since the invention of commentary?

[RobDraw]

How about that post I responded to? Not any more helpful than mine. At least I can make a joke about it.

[Base12]

It's an important post because it illustrates that Autodesk is in no way whatsoever concerned about the day-to-day working functionality of their products.  So long as the next release has all the golly-gee, and whiz-bang new things to appease their shareholders and attract new users, they really don't care about what each new release also breaks, removes or renders useless. Their goal is not to get work done, but to sell software. Perhaps if this is made public enough they can find some motivation to listen to their existing customers.  In regards to Revit's text being the most retarded thing since loading a game from a cassette tape, and using DOS characters to form the shape of insects, if anyone could figure out why it is so broken, perhaps someone else could actually fix it.

[RobDraw]

So tell me. With this being a user help forum where users are helping users with questions and answers, how is your post helpful at all. Complaining here does nothing. You should be posting in the IDEAS forum where Autodesk is paying attention.

Good day.

[robertbTNH4Q]

Helpful user hint: there is a mute option under the three dot icon for those that provide less than helpful commentary.

[Base12]

the reason we post, and complain here, is that we've submitted these grievances ad nauseum for the past 5+ years to the IDEAS page, and still nothing.  No. Thing. happens to fix it.

[RobDraw]

What makes you think that you are going to get what you want by doing that?

This is a user help forum. People come here with questions or to help answer those questions. Complaining is not a part of that process. The complaint department is down the hall and to the left.

Since you are not going to get what you want by going to daddy when mommy doesn't give you what you want, you're probably better off coming up with your own solutions. Just saying.

[zacharytbroussard]

April 2022 - STILL an issue in Revit 2022! Should be such an easy fix Autodesk, how incompetent!!!

[RobDraw]

AutoCAD?...

[zacharytbroussard]

sorry - Autodesk*, fixed in edit.

That being said, you're sad Rob. Like, really sad. Pathetic even. I've read through this entire thread and can't help but be amazed at how you've kept up with a thread older than many elementary school children, only to drop in over and over to give snarky, unprofessional, and unhelpful comments at every turn. 

Nobody asked for your comments, Rob. Nobody cares to hear from you, Rob. You've contributed nothing constructive to this conversation, Rob. 

Rob, many of your comments in this thread have been on weekdays between the hours of 8 and 5. I don't know which is sadder - that you sit around doing nothing all day at work waiting to needlessly criticize someone on a several-years old post, or that your unprofessional, unhelpful, and bitter self is unemployed and can't get a job. It's pathetic either way. 

That being said, I'm heeding the advice of another commenter and muting Rob. I suggest everyone else do the same. I believe in you Rob, you can do better. Find a better use of your time. 

[RobDraw]

At least I don't make it personal. I also don't resort to name calling and personal attacks when someone says something I don't like. I prefer backing myself up with facts, not innuendo. 

[yes_and_no]

I have this issue repeated many times. Mine is a bit different. When placing the cursor inside the text and starting to type, the new text will be at somewhere else, not where the cursor was, normally they jump at the right indent, not left, as they should be naturally.

So, this is what I did: I open the Word program parallel to Revit, copy and paste the whole text to World, edit, spell check, change case, etc...finally copy and paste back to Revit as new text. It takes longer time, but saves me the headache. I notice this happens with project that has viewports rotated 90 or -90 degree. My 2c.

[pyreflos]

I haven’t seen cursor jumping with rotated views, although I still lose edits if the mouse leaves the text edit box. Granted, it’s exceptionally rare that I have rotated views so not a lot of opportunity for observation.

Helpful hint: F7 key will spellcheck in Revit the same way it does in Word.

[pieter7]

For what it's worth, I'm still running into this issue in Revit 2022.1.

The problem is that I haven't found a way to reliably reproduce the issue. If anyone knows a way please let us know in the thread here. Most of the reproduceable bugs I have submitted to Autodesk over the years have been fixed so I'm hopeful that if we can find a reproduceable case, this will be fixed as well.

But as a hoppy programmer myself, I 100% understand that if a bug can't be reproduced it's hard (practically impossible) to track the source and fix it. So I'll continue to keep an eye out trying to decipher what the trigger of this behavior is, and I hope my fellow Revit users will do the same 🙂

[yes_and_no]

Sad to hear.
Rv spent tons of money improving nonessential issue but this.

[RobDraw]

Welp, that was helpful.

You do know that just because you don't use the newer features doesn't mean that they are not essential to others.

SMH...

[yes_and_no]

You may confuse "specific" and "essential". Essential means important to
everyone, in this case is text editing.

[RobDraw]

I'm not confusing anything. 

Despite what some people think. Revit is not an all inclusive program and never was meant to be. It has a lot of limitations. When it doesn't suit our needs, it's much more productive to find something that does suit our needs. Revit does allow us to use other applications when it does fall short. 

Is it "essential" for something to be implemented when there are already ways to do it much more efficiently than Revit could even come close to replicating?