Thanks Greg. If you get around to it, could you send me the diff? I would really like to see where the change was made.
On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Greg Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > Good question. TextArea doesn't currently support tab stops. It's kind of a > pain and didn't seem worth the effort. > > However, as you noted, the Tab key is currently ignored, which may be > confusing to users. It would be fairly easy to insert some number of spaces > when the Tab key is pressed (I almost always configure my text editor to do > this). I'll prototype it and see how it turns out. > > G > > On Nov 6, 2010, at 11:32 PM, Jeremy Heiler wrote: > >> Hi everyone, my name is Jeremy, and I am developing a text editor with >> Pivot. I have set up a basic application that loads a file into a >> TextArea, and so far working with Pivot has been very nice. >> >> My first question is, how can I display tabs in a TextArea? it seems >> like they're either ignored or are simply not visual. I am also >> looking how to insert tabs, but I assume that has to do with messing >> with the listener for focusing. I haven't looked too much into that >> yet, but any hints would be appreciated! >> >> Thanks, >> //Jeremy > >
