Index panel, Separator option, focus lost when typing or deleting multiple characters

[walt.farrell]

1. Create a document, add some text, and set some index markers.
2. Create a new text frame, and Insert an Index.
3. In the Index panel Options field, Separator, type several characters.

I find that when I type the first separator character, it is added to all the index entries as expected. However, at that point, the panel loses focus, and the text cursor is somewhere within the index text frame. Possibly in an entry, possibly after all of them.

Type another character that you intend to be part of the separator, and it gets inserted wherever the text cursor ended up.

Alternative sequence of actions: Having added several characters as a Separator, by clicking in the Separator field after adding each, try to delete a separator character. I find that after I delete 1 character, the text cursor is again somewhere within the index entries. If I try to delete another separator character and don't notice the panel has lost focus, it deletes a character from the index text.

Tested with Publisher 2.0.3.1688 on Windows 10.

[MikeTO]

This must be a Windows-specific issue, it works fine on Mac.

[Lee D]

Thank you, logged and passed to the developers.

[Affinity Info Bot]

The issue "Index panel Using separator results in several characters being inserted." (REF: AFB-7238) has been fixed by the developers in internal build "2.2.0.1971".
This fix should soon be available as a customer beta and is planned for inclusion in the next customer release.
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