Frank, Schluenzen wrote:
Hi Stephan,
since the update to firefox-1.5.0.12-0.7.SL3, we observe problems with
positioning the cursor in text input boxes, like the one for the URL,
the search engine, and also widgets embeeded in web pages: Neither the
mouse nor the cursor keys can be used to position the cursor anywhere
except at the very beginning or the very end of the string.
firefox-1.5.0.12-0.7.slc3 has the same problem.
Could someone confirm that they're seeing this as well? Any ideas how
to work around this?
yup, I see the same problem. Actually, it's still possible to move around
within the text boxes with mouse and/or cursor - just the pointer (|)
doesn't
update the position (which is just as bad) ...
The firefox-1.5-pango-cursor-position-more.patch apparently doesn't work
properly under SL3 (see PS:). After removing the patch from
firefox-1.5.0.12-0.7.SL3's spec and rebuilding the rpm everything seems
to work fine .... at least the pointer positions correctly within the
text boxes...
I guess there is a good chance that similar patches make their way into
thunderbird as well !?
Ciao, Frank.
PS: After fiddling a bit with the code: the patch introduces
inRendContext->GetRangeWidth to deduce the (pixel) length of a substring
within a text-field which is then used to calculate the actual position
of the pointer within the text field. As it turns out, the function
always returns the length of the complete string rather than that of the
substring (whyever) - so that the pointer appears to get stuck at the
end (or start) of the string. well, didn't try to dig any further ....
Hi Frank,
I *thought* we actually were disabling all pango stuff when we changed
"enable-pango" to "disable-pango". But it looks like their patch doesn't honor
that setting enough.
Troy
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