Re: [ jEdit-users ] Disappearing caret

[Slava P. <sp...@gj...>]

Todd Papaioannou wrote:
> 
> --On Thursday, November 09, 2000 04:59:04 AM -0800 Alan Moore <ala...@op...> wrote:
> 
> > At 04:47 PM 11/8/00 +1100, you wrote:
> >> One change was that the caretVisible variable was removed; previously,
> >> it was set when the text area gets focus, and unset when focus was lost.
> >> The caret would be drawn if this variable was set. Now, it just directly
> >> checks if the text area has focus (hasFocus() method). So that might be
> >> the problem.
> >
> >
> > Yep, that's it.  I commented out all of the hasFocus() checks, and it
> > works perfectly.  It seems they were superfluous anyway; just having the
> > textarea check for 'focusedComponent == this' is sufficient to determine
> > whether to show the caret.
> 
> I've made those changes in my local copy and they also work fine. Since
> I'm on the other side of the world, and Slava is probably asleep I've made
> available a fixed jar file for those of you not comfortable with doing it
> yourselves =)
> 
> You can get it from:
> 
>         http://www.luckyspin.org/Projects/jEdit/index.html
> 
> I must stress there may be other issues as a result of the changes, but I've
> been using it with much more success today and haven't noticed any. This file
> will go away as soon as the official download is fixed, but it should serve
> to help for a few days anyway.

I see you didn't actually test your fix :-) Try changing the focus to some
other object (eg, text field). Note how the caret in the text area continues
blinking. So the hasFocus() test is important.

Slava