text index

[Bibek Sahu <sc...@dodds.net>]

Howdy all,

Question for anyone: how do I find the index of a character in a
SVGTextContentElement just-prior to a sub-element?

I'm working on an SVG-Editor, and when the user clicks on a text element,
it becomes the active text element and is where characters get inserted /
removed.  I'm stuck on what to do at border-conditions when the user moves
the caret by hitting the left arrow-key or right arrow-key.


For example: suppose I have

<text xml:space="default" id="main-elt">This <tspan id="sub-elt-1"
style="color:blue">  is </tspan>  ---  <tspan id="sub-elt-2"
style="color:red">    My </tspan> --- example.</text>


... and the user clicks on the 'M' in "My".  I set the active element to
be "sub-elt-2", and the current index to be '0'.  If a user types, it goes
inside "sub-elt-2".

But suppose the user hits the Left-Arrow, to back up a step and type after
"is".  Moving up to the parent element is easy; but what should the cursor
index be?  (Note that I've left extra spaces in there, and set the
xml:space to "default" -- the SVG spec says that character indices should
be calculated after text is compressed, which is the wrench in this
equasion).

If I didn't have to worry about character-compression, I'd just walk the
parent's tree until I found "sub-elt-2", keeping track of lengths along
the way.  But this falls apart when doing character-compression; are there
easy ways to calculate the character-index just prior to element
"sub-elt-2"?  Or even just get the text prior to it, compressed if
necessary?


Thanks!

- Bibek

PS: sorry 'bout the confusing item on DOM Click events in 1.5.1.  I'm not
exactly sure what the problem is, but I know it's in my code somewhere.
It looks like nodes are being added wrong when pulled from another
document...  but I know how to work around it for now, so 'tis fine ATM.
:-)


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