On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 13:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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/
