Re: [Scim-devel] The cursor flicking problem again

[Zhe S. <jam...@gm...>]

Hi,
  Where is the patch? I'd like to have a try first.

Regards
James Su

On 1/28/07, Ryo Dairiki <ryo...@us...> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Did you remember that I told you the cursor in the preedit should not be
> moved
> everytime the preedit string is changed?
> I insist that this trick should be eliminated
> because these movement causes flickering of the lookup table,
> which annoys japanese users.
>
> However, I've found that thunderbird crashes without this trick
> when you use scim-anthy for writing a new mail with spellcheckerk.
> To prevent this crashing these cursor movement seems to be necessary. :(
> (I'm not sure, but wasn't there anyone who said there's a bug like that?)
>
> The previous workaround is that moving the cursor at the last of the
> preedit
> everytime the preedit string is changed and that moving it back to the
> correct position.
> Now I've made another workaround, while moving the cursor,
> ignore the update_cursor_location callbacks from the gtkIMContext.
> This works fine for me, no more flicking and crashing at the same time. :)
>
> I've applied this trick on the cvs latest of SCIM-Bridge just now,
> and I'll import this into SCIM itself if there's any other problem
> after testing it a few weeks. :)
>
> Regards,
> Ryo Dairiki <ryo...@us...>
>
>
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