[lazarus] Need your thoughts on Caret

Micha Nelissen M.Nelissen at student.tue.nl
Tue Aug 12 03:49:27 EDT 2003


Mattias Gaertner wrote:

> On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 20:56:52 +0200
> Micha Nelissen <M.Nelissen at student.tue.nl> wrote:
> 
> 
>>If you trace code flow you will see that ShowCaret indeed returns false 
>>most of the time if not always.
>>
>>Since this involves more than simply adjusting the win32 interface, I 
>>ask for your thoughts on this.
> 
> 
> You mean, changing the synedit code?
> The caret showing code in synedit has not much changed for the LCL. Does the
> synedit1 example work under win32 intf? 

Exactly what I expected! The caret *seems* to work, ie. it appears (but 
does not respond to keypresses). Anyway, when you remove focus, ie. 
ALT-TAB, then back, the caret is gone, and won't reappear.

Have I explained the problem clearly enough?

Micha.







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