On Fri, 9 Feb 2024 12:54:17 GMT, John Hendrikx <jhendr...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> There are a number of tickets open related to text rendering:
>> 
>> https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8314215
>> 
>> https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8145496
>> 
>> https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8129014
>> 
>> They have in common that wrapped text is taking the trailing spaces on each 
>> wrapped line into account when calculating where to wrap.  This looks okay 
>> for text that is left aligned (as the spaces will be trailing the lines and 
>> generally aren't a problem, but looks weird with CENTER and RIGHT 
>> alignments.  Even with LEFT alignment there are artifacts of this behavior, 
>> where a line like `AAA  BBB  CCC` (note the **double** spaces) gets split up 
>> into `AAA  `, `BBB  ` and `CCC`, but if space reduces further, it will wrap 
>> **too** early because the space is taken into account (ie. `AAA` may still 
>> have fit just fine, but `AAA  ` doesn't, so the engine wraps it to `AA` + `A 
>>  ` or something).
>> 
>> The fix for this is two fold; first the individual lines of text should not 
>> include any trailing spaces into their widths; second, the code that is 
>> taking the trailing space into account when wrapping should ignore all 
>> trailing spaces (currently it is ignoring all but one trailing space).  With 
>> these two fixes, the layout in LEFT/CENTER/RIGHT alignments all look great, 
>> and there is no more early wrapping due to a space being taking into account 
>> while the actual text still would have fit (this is annoying in tight 
>> layouts, where a line can be wrapped early even though it looks like it 
>> would have fit).
>> 
>> If it were that simple, we'd be done, but there may be another issue here 
>> that needs solving: wrapped aligned TextArea's.
>> 
>> TextArea don't directly support text alignment (via a setTextAlignment 
>> method like Label) but you can change it via CSS.
>> 
>> For Left alignment + wrapping, TextArea will ignore any spaces typed before 
>> a line that was wrapped.  In other words, you can type spaces as much as you 
>> want, and they won't show up and the cursor won't move.  The spaces are all 
>> getting appended to the previous line.  When you cursor through these 
>> spaces, the cursor can be rendered out of the control's bounds.  To 
>> illustrate, if you have the text `AAA                 BBB CCC`, and the text 
>> gets wrapped to `AAA`, `BBB`, `CCC`, typing spaces before `BBB` will not 
>> show up.  If you cursor back, the cursor may be outside the control bounds 
>> because so many spaces are trailing `AAA`.
>> 
>> The above behavior has NOT changed, is pretty standard for wrapped text 
>> controls,...
>
> John Hendrikx has updated the pull request incrementally with two additional 
> commits since the last revision:
> 
>  - Add some clarifying documentation
>  - Do not collapse trailing spaces of last line (where no soft wrap occurs)

I see, so the test in graphics was @Ignore("JDK-8087615")

I'd suggest to move the failing cases into a separate method and @Ignore that.  
We still have JDK-8087615 to deal with the failure, but at least we'll have a 
good working test with the rest of the scenarios.

What do you think?

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jfx/pull/1236#issuecomment-1936738038

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