Re: [ jEdit-users ] Breaking scrolling with a macro

[Slava P. <sl...@je...>]

Hi,

All I can think of is that the text area only scrolls if it has focus,
so somehow the focus flag is getting busted?

On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 05:03:31AM -0400, Hemphill, Barry wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've written a macro (pretty badly I'm sure - I'm not an experienced Java
> coder) which basically does the following:
> 
> 1) Finds the "chartStyle" value for the current line (chartStyle is a tag in
> language called RDL)
> 2) Parses the includes section to find included files
> 3) Opens each of those files (if necessary) and searches each for the
> chartStyle definition
> 4) Switches the edit pane to that buffer
> 
> It more or less works - there are a few problems where it will fail if the
> files are not already open (maybe having to do with the asynch IO?) - but
> just yesterday I discovered a much nastier problem. If I use this macro, it
> seems to break scrolling, in that if you use the cursor keys to move the
> cursor off of the visible buffer area, the edit pane does not scroll to
> follow the cursor. It seems that I'm doing something which makes the change
> persist until I exit/restart jEdit as well.
> 
> I've done some testing to confirm that before I run the macro, scrolling
> (with arrow keys, pgup/pgdn) works normally, and then as soon as I run it,
> it stops working. I can use View->Scrolling->Scroll to current line, and it
> still works, but that's pretty inconvenient.
> 
> I'm attaching the macro (it's pretty small) so maybe someone can either a)
> confirm what I'm seeing or b) point out the mistake I made in it, although I
> guess to confirm it you'd need RDL files, and they're pretty big so I don't
> want to attach them to the list. Ah well, maybe something obvious will jump
> out in the macro. BTW, I'm using jEdit 4.1 final, Win2K - haven't had a
> chance to test this on Solaris and Linux yet (I'm on the road in Switzerland
> - yay!).
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Barry
> 
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