Frank, Schluenzen wrote:
> Hi Stephan,
> 
>>
>> since the update to firefox-1.5.0.12-0.7.SL3, we observe problems with 
>> positioning the cursor in text input boxes, like the one for the URL, 
>> the search engine, and also widgets embeeded in web pages: Neither the 
>> mouse nor the cursor keys can be used to position the cursor anywhere 
>> except at the very beginning or the very end of the string.
>>
>> firefox-1.5.0.12-0.7.slc3 has the same problem.
>>
>> Could someone confirm that they're seeing this as well? Any ideas how 
>> to work around this?
>>
> 
> yup, I see the same problem. Actually, it's still possible to move around
> within the text boxes with mouse and/or cursor - just the pointer (|) 
> doesn't
> update the position (which is just as bad) ...
> 
> The firefox-1.5-pango-cursor-position-more.patch apparently doesn't work 
> properly under SL3 (see PS:). After removing the patch from 
> firefox-1.5.0.12-0.7.SL3's spec and rebuilding the rpm everything seems 
> to work fine .... at least the pointer positions correctly within the 
> text boxes...
> 
> I guess there is a good chance that similar patches make their way into 
> thunderbird as well !?
> 
> Ciao, Frank.
> 
> PS: After fiddling a bit with the code: the patch introduces 
> inRendContext->GetRangeWidth to deduce the (pixel) length of a substring 
> within a text-field which is then used to calculate the actual position 
> of the pointer within the text field. As it turns out, the function 
> always returns the length of the complete string rather than that of the 
> substring (whyever) - so that the pointer appears to get stuck at the 
> end (or start) of the string. well, didn't try to dig any further ....

Hi Frank,
I *thought* we actually were disabling all pango stuff when we changed 
"enable-pango" to "disable-pango".  But it looks like their patch doesn't honor 
that setting enough.

Troy
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