Re: Announce: Intent to tag/release soon

From: David Chart (linux@dchart.demon.co.uk)
Date: Fri Nov 15 2002 - 14:55:47 EST

  • Next message: Dom Lachowicz: "Commit: fix unix selection insanity"

    On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 13:07, wlach@interlog.com wrote:
    > Of course, it's not up to me when to release, but I think the
    > caret and selection problems are enough to make the tree
    > pretty much unusable on Unix as it stands. IMO, we should
    > all buckle down and try to fix these problems, even if it
    > means delaying the release by a week.

    It's not unusable (I'm using it), but it isn't a pleasant experience.

    >
    > I spent some time working on the selection problem this
    > morning. I think the problem is in some mouse event resetting
    > the selection (m_iSelectionAnchor in FV_View _is_ being reset
    > where it shouldn't be), since I don't get the same behaviour
    > using the keyboard.

    This is the problem with clicking and dragging to select a block of
    text, yes?

    I will also note that if you delete, the cursor gets ahead of the
    delete, and if you are a fast typer it is possible to type a character
    at that position before the 'deleted' character is actually removed. I
    filed a bug for this, but I've not got round to uprating it from
    cosmetic.

    >
    > We aren't getting the same behaviour on Windows. I can only
    > assume this has something to do with the recent double-buffering
    > changes, although I can't for the life of me imagine why..

    The problems predate Martin's commits for that.

    -- 
    David Chart
    http://www.dchart.demon.co.uk/
    


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