Re: Commit QNX dialogs

From: Tomas Frydrych (tomas@frydrych.uklinux.net)
Date: Sun May 26 2002 - 13:14:16 EDT

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    Hi Johan,

    > and stuff. Tried out RTL support today, and well, got some questions.
    > When i used chars like ':' and such they were placed at the left side
    > of the text, after some thinking i guess this is expected behavior.

    The layout of a text on a line is a function of two things: (1) the
    characters themselves; (2) the dominant direction property of the
    paragraph (ltr or rtl). The latter is set manually either using the
    Format->Paragraph dialogue, or the P button with the arrow on the
    top of it.

    > Is the cursor blink also supposed to blink a underline? Why is
    this? has
    > todo with RTL languages i guess..

    There are certain situations in which there are two cursors on the
    screen at the same time; this is because on rtl/ltr boundaries the
    location of the next character depends on the properties of that
    next character. In those situations we display two cursors with little
    flags on the top of them indicating which one is for which
    characters. To make it more obvious that there are two cursors at
    once (they can be quite a bit apart from each other) they are linked
    by thin line, which too should be blinking.

    Tomas



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