Caret Position

[oallouch]

Hi,

First of all, nice control you got there !
I have an issue when a type the "tab" character. The caret doesn't move, but the text gets indented like it should be.

Olivier Allouch

[TomasMikula]

Hi Olivier,

the tab issue is related to JavaFX issue #RT-32398. See also Known Issues.
Unfortunately, that issue is not reproducible using only public JavaFX API and probably won't get fixed until they themselves start using a caret within a TextFlow. Sadly, the advice for now is not to use tabs.

Tomas

[oallouch]

I added a comment on the issue.
There's no way to work around this ?

[TomasMikula]

I'm already working around that bug: to determine caret position within a TextFlow, I

• create a copy of the incident Text node, unattached to a TextFlow,
• determine caret position within that independent Text node (which works correctly in JavaFX),
• add the x-offset of the incident Text node to the caret position.

Unfortunately, this doesn't work for tabs, because their width depends on the previous text, thus their width in the independent copy of Text is different than their width in the TextFlow.

[oallouch]

Sorry to have doubted :)
I understand the problem. Not simple.
What's funny is that the text is positioned right.
Looks like JavaFX is really Swing 2.
You have to live in the source.

[oallouch]

Did you see that Felipe Heidrich responded to my comment in the JavaFX JIRA ?
He has added a workaround source.

[TomasMikula]

I applied the suggested workaround.
Thanks for initiating this discussion and let me know if you find any other issues.

[oallouch]

My pleasure