Subject: RE: Alignment Issues
From: Bruce Pearson (BruceP@wn.com.au)
Date: Mon Feb 14 2000 - 18:06:49 CST
Thomas,
The line breaking routines occur in fb_LineBreaker.cpp.
Around line 85 is where the current line width is checked against the
allowable line width.
Bruce.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-abiword-dev@abisource.com
> [mailto:owner-abiword-dev@abisource.com]On Behalf Of Thomas Fletcher
> Sent: Tuesday, 15 February, 2000 02:27
> To: abiword-dev@abisource.com
> Subject: Alignment Issues
>
>
> All,
>
> I had made a previous posting to the list, but it looks
> like the ether may have eaten it ... so here is another
> go (apologies if this is a repeat).
>
> I'm working on the QNX Photon port of AbiWord and it
> looks like the right margins are being ignored. I see
> this when loading up the Interview.abw document, there
> are no columns ... the text just runs straight across.
>
> This isn't just a problem with the columns though. If
> I start typing and just keep typing until I hit the
> right side of the page, the text won't wrap down to the
> next line, but instead just carries on straight.
>
> I'm not all that familiar with the XAP code (most of
> the times it _just works_) and was wondering if people
> might want to point me (and my debugger!) to the right
> chunk of code where we determine when to put the next
> block of text on the next line. I tried following
> the code after a key-event and it went through insertData
> to the fv_View code to a couple of suspicious looking
> functions _generalUpdate() which does a whole baliwack
> of stuff, and _updateInsertionPoint().
>
> In any case I've got people chompin at the bit to use
> this WP (even in it's early form) but this is a bit of
> a show stopper for me.
>
> Thanks guys,
> Thomas
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> Thomas (toe-mah) Fletcher QNX Software Systems
> thomasf@qnx.com Neutrino Development Group
> (613)-591-0931 http://www.qnx.com/~thomasf
>
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