741454 - Text edits lack a caret and text selection

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Widget: Win32, defect)

Description

[Jim Mathies [:jimm]]

Need to track down where this gets rendered and get it working. Currently we don't see a caret or selection when dragging the mouse over test in forms or the awesomebar.

Comment 1

[Brian R. Bondy [:bbondy]]

I have a caret in non xul textboxes.  
html input works.

Comment 2

[Jim Mathies [:jimm]]

(In reply to Brian R. Bondy [:bbondy] from comment #1)
> I have a caret in non xul textboxes.  
> html input works.

I wonder if Fennec chrome purposely disables this somehow. Another situation where we'll need to detect connected hardware and adjust the interface accordingly.

Comment 3

[Brian R. Bondy [:bbondy]]

I think it's on purpose as well, just found this:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XUL/Attribute/showcaret

I'll play with it a bit and see if it works.  We'd only want to set it when a keyboard is attached I think.

Comment 4

[Jim Mathies [:jimm]]

I've fixed this in the UIA work.