The easiest solution would probably be to have it override the page up/down key 
press events and determine what the next line should be based on the viewport 
height.

However, as I mentioned in the other thread, I'm not sure that changing the 
caret position just because the viewport changes is good UI design. The text 
editor I use on the Mac (SubEthaEdit) doesn't do it - just like Pivot's 
TextArea/TextPane, you can scroll the caret out of view using either page 
up/down or the scrollbar; however, any key press will scroll it back to visible.

Eclipse does reposition the caret on page up/down, but not when the user 
scrolls manually, which, to me, seems inconsistent. However, like the others, a 
key press brings it back into view.

G

On Sep 15, 2010, at 9:36 PM, Todd Volkert wrote:

>>> - Page Up/Down: go up/down by n elements (bounded by first/last), where n is
>>> the size of the current page (for example in a List or a Table with size 20
>>> elements the page here could be 20) ...
>> 
>> Not sure this makes sense. Page up/down is currently handled by ScrollPane, 
>> which, in most cases, will be used to host a list, table, or tree. So I 
>> think the current behavior is probably OK. We could certainly revisit this 
>> later, though.
> 
> Might it make sense to have TextArea override scrollToVisible() to
> also update the position of the caret?  Though as I think about it,
> I'm not sure that would come into play here anyway...

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