I guess you didn't test hard enough then, because the issue absolutely exists. Type two words in a gtk/qt app, press ctrl+backspace twice, both words deleted. Try the same in anything written with edje entry and you've still got one of the words.
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 9:36 AM, Carsten Haitzler <[email protected]>wrote: > On Wed, 27 Mar 2013 08:24:26 +0000 Michael Blumenkrantz > <[email protected]> said: > > seriously. double click a word in a gtk text entry now... the space is NOT > selected. just the word. hit backspace to delete the word selected and > just the > selected word is deleted and u end up with the "2 spaces" if there was a > space > before and after the word. i am doing it RIGHT now in gedit, sylpheed and > thunderbird and it does EXACTLY this. now i test this in qt (kcachegrind) > and > PRESTO... the EXACT same thing. double click a word to select it and JUST > the > word is selected, NOT the trailing space. hit del and JUST the word is > deleted. > > http://www.enlightenment.org/~raster/word-sel-del-gtk.ogv > http://www.enlightenment.org/~raster/word-sel-del-qt.ogv > > i don't know what you have been smoking but there is proof. edje entry > behaviour is 100% consistent with gtk and qt (i cant speak for windows, > java, > macos etc.) in the above regard. > > > I'd like to call everyone's attention to > > http://trac.enlightenment.org/e/ticket/2206 > > > > I (and a number of others) have been complaining very vocally about this > > issue for over a year, and it has yet to be taken seriously or fixed. > This > > is a significant problem for anyone wanting to use EFL text input, and it > > absolutely needs to be fixed before the 1.8 release. > > > > For those who can't access the trac ticket, this is regarding the > arbitrary > > way that word selection works in edje entry, and how it functions > > contrarily to text input in every other toolkit and OS that I've tested. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Own the Future-Intel® Level Up Game Demo Contest 2013 > > Rise to greatness in Intel's independent game demo contest. > > Compete for recognition, cash, and the chance to get your game > > on Steam. $5K grand prize plus 10 genre and skill prizes. > > Submit your demo by 6/6/13. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel_levelupd2d > > _______________________________________________ > > enlightenment-devel mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > > > > > -- > ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- > The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [email protected] > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Own the Future-Intel® Level Up Game Demo Contest 2013 Rise to greatness in Intel's independent game demo contest. Compete for recognition, cash, and the chance to get your game on Steam. $5K grand prize plus 10 genre and skill prizes. Submit your demo by 6/6/13. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel_levelupd2d _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
