[squeak-dev] Bad backwards scrolling selection extension bug

Eliot Miranda eliot.miranda at gmail.com
Wed Dec 18 19:52:14 UTC 2019


Hi Marcel,

On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 7:45 AM Marcel Taeumel <marcel.taeumel at hpi.de>
wrote:

> Hi all!
>
> > Is it possible to write tests for this with additional Hands etc?
>
> Sure. :-) It's not that challenging to generate user-input events and then
> call #processEvent: on some morph. See UserInputEventTests.
>
> >  I notice that backwards scrolling selection extension no longer works
> properly, at least in the Transcript.
>
> Fixed in Morphic-mt.1610.
>

Thank you, man!!!


> Best,
> Marcel
>
> Am 18.12.2019 10:34:14 schrieb Jakob Reschke <forums.jakob at resfarm.de>:
> Is it possible to write tests for this with additional Hands etc?
>
> Marcel Taeumel <marcel.taeumel at hpi.de> schrieb am Mi., 18. Dez. 2019,
> 10:19:
>
>> Hi Eliot,
>>
>> confirmed. I will look into it. Already have an idea where to look...
>>
>> Best,
>> Marcel
>>
>> Am 17.12.2019 22:58:07 schrieb Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com>:
>> Confirmed in a scrollable Workspace, too.  Down seems to work, just not
>> up...
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 1:29 PM Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Marcel, Hi All,
>>>
>>>     I notice that backwards scrolling selection extension no longer
>>> works properly, at least in the Transcript.
>>>
>>> To reproduce, ensure your Transcript is full of many lines of text.
>>> Scroll to the bottom.  Click and hold the left button at the end of the
>>> selection.  While holding the button down move the mouse to the top of the
>>> Transcript window (or a little beyond) to start scrolling backwards while
>>> extending the text selection.  It used to be that the text selection would
>>> continue to extend from the current cursor/mouse point to the end of the
>>> selection.  This no longer happens.  This is a rather serious text
>>> selection regression.  IMO it needs to be fixed before the next release.
>>>
>>> _,,,^..^,,,_
>>> best, Eliot
>>>
>>>
>>
>

-- 
_,,,^..^,,,_
best, Eliot
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