Ingredient disappears after failed copy/paste?

[wjogert]

I copy / paste ingredients to create a duplicate entry for my inventory... so that I can modify color, moisture, alpha, etc without modifying the original BeerSmith entries.

However, frequently when I select the ingredient it opens the "type" field for editing rather than just highlighting the ingredient (bad finger pad clicks). If I don't notice before I CTRL-C and CTRL-V... the selected ingredient just disappears! I can search endlessly for the ingredient and it is nowhere to be found.

Can anyone explain why?? The mistake I made SHOULD copy the type field text and paste it back into the same field. Is there a way to recover the lost ingredient??

Thanks.

 

[BeerSmith]

There is an undo command (Edit Undo) which will undo any cut or paste individually, but yes if you cut an ingredient it will remove it.

 

[wjogert]

I never use CUT. I'm asking why when I copy & paste it will delete the ingredient being copied if the "type" field is accidentally open for edit.
(I've discovered this happens if my finger pad registers a "middle button" instead of "left button" when I'm trying to highlight the ingredient)
This happens in INGREDIENTS, not in a recipe. When this occurs, the UNDO button doesn't work.

I DID recover the lost ingredient by removing the add-on and reinstalling it.

I guess the answer is... it's a bug that only I encounter, so be more careful when editing ingredients.