The timer is used to periodically scroll the selection up or down by one row when the caret moves outside of the text area's bounds. TextInput does something similar for horizontal scrolling.
On Jul 21, 2011, at 3:52 PM, Edvin Syse (JIRA) wrote: > > [ > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIVOT-774?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13069160#comment-13069160 > ] > > Edvin Syse commented on PIVOT-774: > ---------------------------------- > > You might be correct :) It seems to be stopped on mouseUp though. I haven't > fully understood the function of this timer, I'm not very familiar with this > skin yet. > >> Selection bug in TextArea >> ------------------------- >> >> Key: PIVOT-774 >> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIVOT-774 >> Project: Pivot >> Issue Type: Bug >> Components: wtk >> Affects Versions: 2.0 >> Reporter: Edvin Syse >> Priority: Minor >> Attachments: TextAreaSelectionFix.patch >> >> >> If you start to select text in a TextArea and while selecting, move the >> cursor over the bounds of the TextArea (north of it), the selection area is >> not expanded. >> This bug only appears to affect TextArea when the content has been scrolled >> as far down or as far up as possible. While the text is being vertically >> scrolled, selection works as expected. >> A video showing the problem can be seen here: >> https://edvin.viewscreencasts.com/c97422da51ed4cf1845e5a7610a8716f >> This bug makes it hard to select text in a TextArea, because one often moves >> the cursor further north than the TextArea when selecting. > > -- > This message is automatically generated by JIRA. > For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira > >
