WordWrap for TextArea

[Sandro Martini <sa...@gmail.com>]

Hi to all,
for a future release (1.5 ?) what do you think on adding a WordWrap
setting for TextArea, like in many text editors ?

Bye,
Sandro

Re: WordWrap for TextArea

[Sandro Martini <sa...@gmail.com>]

Ok, let's wait after the 1.4, and see ...

Bye

Re: WordWrap for TextArea

[Todd Volkert <tv...@gmail.com>]

There's a valid use case for telling TextArea not to wrap text, but it
requires text area to be able to report a preferred width (and unconstrained
preferred size).  Noel actually sent out a patch for this yesterday, but
since text area is so complex, Greg voted to hold off on consideration of
the patch for the 1.4 release.  I don't think there's any rush for this
feature, so I'd tend to agree to hold off.  However, it's presumably on the
table for 1.4.1.

As for label wrapping, the wrapText style in LabelSkin has always existed,
so I'm not sure what use case you're saying needs to be addressed there.

-T

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 5:51 AM, Sandro Martini <sa...@gmail.com>wrote:

> > Text area already wraps words -- are you talking about covering the case
> where you *don'* want it to wrap?
> Sorry for the question but in the Component Explorer there isn't this
> so it's difficult to test (from a user point-of-view).
>
> Yes, in some cases word wrap is not wanted but only wrapping at the
> horizontal length of the component.
> In other cases wrapping is never wanted (so for example any line will
> be displayed as read, and an horizontal scroll bar could be required
> in this case) but i agree that this could be a corner case for us,
> maybe addressed later (or never, TextArea is already complex enough).
> A sample of this could be to display (for editing) a text file.
>
>
> And the same probably also for the "Label Wrapping".
>
> Greg, what do you say ?
>
> Open a ticket ?
>
> Thanks,
> Sandro
>

Re: WordWrap for TextArea

[Sandro Martini <sa...@gmail.com>]

> Text area already wraps words -- are you talking about covering the case where you *don'* want it to wrap?
Sorry for the question but in the Component Explorer there isn't this
so it's difficult to test (from a user point-of-view).

Yes, in some cases word wrap is not wanted but only wrapping at the
horizontal length of the component.
In other cases wrapping is never wanted (so for example any line will
be displayed as read, and an horizontal scroll bar could be required
in this case) but i agree that this could be a corner case for us,
maybe addressed later (or never, TextArea is already complex enough).
A sample of this could be to display (for editing) a text file.


And the same probably also for the "Label Wrapping".

Greg, what do you say ?

Open a ticket ?

Thanks,
Sandro

Re: WordWrap for TextArea

[Todd Volkert <tv...@gmail.com>]

Text area already wraps words -- are you talking about covering the case
where you *don'* want it to wrap?

-T

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 5:35 AM, Sandro Martini <sa...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi to all,
> for a future release (1.5 ?) what do you think on adding a WordWrap
> setting for TextArea, like in many text editors ?
>
> Bye,
> Sandro
>