147690 - Bad cursor positioning in text entry fields

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: DOM: Editor, defect)

Description

[Joerg Lehrke]

At least starting with the 1.0RCs the cursor within text entry fields (URL,
HTML-Forms, Search Tab, ...) is positioned very bad. E.g. while typing an URL
the cursor seems to be over the last typed character or more worse before it. I
tried the RC3 and the problem showed up with this version, too.

Comment 1

[Joerg Lehrke]

Attachment: the cursor should be at the end of the line now

Comment 2

[Joerg Lehrke]

truetype support is enabled in unix.js: // TrueType pref("font.FreeType2.enable", true); pref("font.freetype2.shared-library", "libfreetype.so.6"); // if libfreetype was built without hinting compiled in // it is best to leave hinting off pref("font.FreeType2.autohinted", false); pref("font.FreeType2.unhinted", true); // below a certian pixel size anti-aliased fonts produce poor results pref("font.antialias.min",        10); pref("font.embedded_bitmaps.max", 1000000); pref("font.scale.tt_bitmap.dark_text.min", 64); pref("font.scale.tt_bitmap.dark_text.gain", "0.8"); // sample prefs for TrueType font dirs pref("font.directory.truetype.1", "/usr/share/fonts/default/TrueType"); pref("font.directory.truetype.2", "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF"); //pref("font.directory.truetype.3", "/u/sam/tt_font3");  I just tried 1.1a and the same failure again! 

Comment 3

[Joerg Lehrke]

Just tried 1.1beta (Buld ID: 2002072204): same problem!

Comment 4

[Joerg Lehrke]

Just tried 1.1beta (Build ID: 2002072204): same problem!

Comment 5

[Dieter Siebörger]

Same problem on Mac. Build 2002080508

Comment 6

[timeless]

uid is being phased out.

Comment 7

[Kenneth Herron]

Joerg, are you still experiencing this problem with current versions of mozilla?

Comment 8

[Joerg Lehrke]

I just tried both RPM versions of Mozilla-1.3 (xft and gtk2) for Red Hat 8.x and
found that the problem is finally gone! Some things take their time, but ...
Thanks Guys!

Comment 9

[Joerg Lehrke]

Hurray - it works fine now!