[lazarus] Need your thoughts on Caret

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Micha Nelissen wrote:

> 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).

The keypress problem is more general: none of the examples respond to
keypresses, except where a native windows widget is used. Custom key
handling doesn't work anywhere. So that is not related to the caret...

Michael.