[6441] in java-interest
Re: Where's caret in TextArea?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Amy Fowler)
Sun Mar 31 01:22:08 1996
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 13:52:17 -0800
Reply-To: Amy Fowler <aim@slotown.Eng.Sun.COM>
From: Amy Fowler <aim@slotown.Eng.Sun.COM>
To: Multiple recipients of list JAVA-INTEREST
<JAVA-INTEREST@JAVASOFT.COM>
> I wrote very simple class working as a Editor. It has a panel with
> buttons at North and TextArea at Center. I notice, that in TextArea
> there's no caret - actually it shows sometimes (especially when I press
> shift or control key), but disappears after typing any char.
>
> This makes TextArea almost unusable. I've checked it with both Netscape
> 2.0 and appletviewer on Solaris 2.4 and with Netscape 2.0 on SunOS 4.3 and
> Irix6 - everywhere looks the same. Don't know how about Windowz (not
> using them).
>
> Does anyone know solution for this bug?
This is a known bug that is fixed in our next bugfix release (coming soon).
It had to do with some inconsistencies in the way we were selecting
events in the native motif code (which screwed up the Text widgets'
timer events for flashing the caret).
Regards,
Amy Moore-Fowler
Java Products Group
JavaSoft
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