Crashes when backspacing over text in iOS 4.3

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Type some text.
2. Backspace over it.
3. iFrotz crashes. 

(NOTE: This doesn't happen every time, but trying it repeatedly will produce a 
crash within five or ten seconds, and the game crashes regularly during normal 
gameplay unless you never make typos.)

What is the expected output or behavior?  What do you see instead?

Um.  The text I'm trying to backspace over gets deleted.  Instead, the app just 
disappears and dumps me back to the homescreen.

What version of Frotz are you using?
1.5

What device model are you using (iPhone 3GS, iPad, iPod Touch 3rd gen,
etc.)
iPad 1.

What version of iOS?  3.2, 4.0, 4.3, etc.)
4.3

Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by phoesha@gmail.com on 16 Mar 2011 at 1:15

• Merged into: #133

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I should note that I tested this in Anchorhead and also in an unreleased game 
that I'm testing.  I've played Anchorhead in this version of iFrotz on this 
iPad but on previous versions of iOS before without any problems.

Original comment by phoesha@gmail.com on 16 Mar 2011 at 1:16

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This bug is caused by a change in iOS 4.3.  I'll try to get a fix in Frotz out 
soon.
In the meantime, you can avoid crashing by turning off Autocompletion in the 
prefs.

Original comment by spath...@gmail.com on 16 Mar 2011 at 1:23

• Changed state: Duplicate

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Having a huge problem with Anchorhead in Frotz on Ipad/Iphone.  I can't read 
the news clippings or the library book.  When it asks to hit the SPACE button, 
I hit SPACE and it goes back to the main menu.  Please help.  Am I doing 
something stupid or is there a bug?  thanks

Original comment by chadgibb...@gmail.com on 30 Jan 2012 at 2:27

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One issue with some text adventures, including Anchorhead, is that they were 
written with the idea that people were playing them on full computers with full 
keyboards, including arrow keys, and iPad/iPhones don't have arrow keys.  I 
think what's probably confusing you is how to navigate the menus which come up 
when you 'read clippings' or 'read book'.  (On a full computer, people would 
just try arrow keys intuitively and it would work, so the author of Anchorhead 
didn't think it was necessary to describe the alternate key bindings.)   The 
trick is that you can use the N and P (for Next and Previous) keys to navigate 
the menu items, RETURN to select, and Q or backspace to return to the game.   
This works on almost all in-game menus.  Most games tell you about N and P in 
the status line, but Anchorhead unfortunately doesn't.  This is actually 
mentioned in the last paragraph of the "Getting Started" help page in Frotz as 
well.

Hopefully this helps.  If you still think you've hit a bug, please respond in 
greater detail about what's going wrong.   Also,  you've commented on an 
unrelated problem which is already fixed, so if you are still having problems, 
please open a new issue report.  Thanks.

Original comment by spath...@gmail.com on 30 Jan 2012 at 4:14