Can not recover custom preview sample text after mouse scrolled

Version: 16.0.3062 macOS

Reproduction

  1. Open any .fcp project.
  2. Add text “天地玄黃宇宙洪荒” to the preview input textarea
  3. Scroll the mouse

Expected
User can switch between different texts including the builtin preview text such as “abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz” and the custom input “天地玄黃宇宙洪荒”

Actual
User can only switch between builtin preview text, the custom text “天地玄黃宇宙洪荒” can not be recovered

Context
My design workflow relies on custom sample text. I usually pick a sequence of similar characters such as “攱 竌 竍 竏 竐 竑 竓 竔 竕 竗 竘 站 竚 竛 竝 竡 竢 竣 竤 竦 竧 竨 竩 竫 竬 竭 竮 端 竰 竱 竲 竳 竴 竵 翊 靖 颯 飒 鴗 䇃 䇄 䇅 䇆 䇇 䇈 䇉 䇊 䇋 䇌 䇍 䇎 䇏 䇐 䇑 䇕” and then use the sample textarea as a shortcut to open them in the edit panel. My mouse hardware is Apple Magic Mouse, which is unfortunately very sensitive to the scroll action as it does not have a dedicate scroll wheel. During the focus transition between the edit panel and sample text, it is very easy to accidentally trigger a scroll event, which effectively remove the custom sample text. Currently the workaround is to store the sample text elsewhere and copy & paste it again. But it’s not ideal.

I am aware of a similar issue Saving preview sample text in the project file, but I can not find the User Notes in the tool mentioned in that issue. I don’t request the sample text being stored in the project, but it would be great if during the project is open, the sample text list will include the last modified custom text.

Hi Junliang,

Yes, that is annoying. We will try to improve it.

For now you can right-click on the actual Preview and select Add to Preview Text. That saves the current sample into the Preview Text list so you can get back to it after a scroll.

Thanks for the detailed report!

Erwin

Thank you! That is indeed useful, and it turns out the preview text management is in the FC → Settings. I should have searched “Preview” in the current manual: Preview.

From now on I will right click every UI element and see if there is a hidden useful context menu. I have been using web UI for too long and I almost forgot context menu…