Re: [UFO-devel] UTextEdit reacting strangely

[Elie `w. B. <dro...@gm...>]

Hello there,

Relating to the "mouse click selects crap" problem:
I tried to focus a bit on this problem, and provide some fix. I'm strugglin=
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to find the problem. The position returned when clicking the mouse is
perfectly correct, but the line is wrong.

I think the problem is in utextlayout.cpp, in method
UTextLayout::viewToModel(pos), since it's iterating on lines from the
beginning of the text.

Offset should be adjusted on the displayed text start instead of the
absolute text start, but isn't for some reason. I wasn't able to find the
displayed text start (should be a "line offset"). If I knew where to find
it, I think I could probably patch this in order to get the mouse selection
work probably.
Please note that the (only) way I change the displayed text start is to add
enough text in the TextEdit, then move the caret down using arrow keys.

I don't understand how the text manages to scroll correctly when the caret
moves. I'm looking for some more insight, since I spent already most of the
day crawling in the code without much success.

Side note: In utextlayout.hpp, line 50, shouldn't "public" be "private".
Writing "public" twice doesn't issue a warning, but what's the point in
writing property-like methods if the members are publicly available.

As always, thanks in advance ...

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