4827 - Need API for determining the global coordinate position of the insertion point

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Internationalization, defect, P3)

Description

[tague]

Simon :-

I need the API for finding the caret position that we have been talking about
for M5.  Basically, just to recap, what I need is an API which will provide me
a mapping between the current carret and the global coordinate scheme of the
Mac.  You might want to look at bug #4826 and see if there is some way that we
can put together a more general API that will take care of all the
requirements.

Comment 1

[bobj]

Blocker for M5 IME deliverable.

Comment 2

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

tague: I need to know what result you expect for a couple of edge cases:
1. Selection is not collapsed (hence, no caret)
2. Selection is not in text nodes.

Comment 3

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Talking to tague, can move this to M6.

Comment 4

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

This is done (but untested). Get the caret from the pres shell, and call
nsCaret::GetWindowRelativeCoordinates.