small BracketHighlighting bug

Posted 18 years ago by Joris Koster - Paragon Decision Technology

When I toggle the BracketHighlightingVisible (both true to false and false to true) while the caret is currently on a bracket, the new BracketHighlighting-mode is not applied on the screen. Only moving the caret, programmaticaly or manualy, causes the BracketHighlight-drawing to be enabled/disabled as specified.

I would like to disable BracketHighlighting whenever the editor doesn't have the focus; so i'm enabling/disabling the bracket highlighting on the Got/Lost focus event. Unfortunately I'm now forced to move the caret back and forth programatically in order to let the redraw occur, but doing so has a nasty side-effect on the intelliprompt memberlist: the edit-ctrl looses focus to the member-list-ctrl upon a mouse-click in the member-list; this causes me to move the caret and thus to cancel the selection. So I ended up checking the visibility of the memberlist during the got/lost focus call before toggling the BracketHighlightingVisible and moving the caret :S.

Could this BrackeHighlighting redraw bug be fixed, or (alternatively for me :)) have an option to enable BracketHighlighting only on focus?

thanks,
Joris

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Posted 18 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA

Good points Joris, I'll add them to the TODO list.

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Posted 18 years ago by Dong JIA

Has this bug fixed in latest release?
Best regards,
Dong JIA

Posted 18 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA

No not yet.

Actipro Software Support

Posted 18 years ago by Dong JIA

It is a bad news for me. :(

Posted 18 years ago by Dong JIA

Will it be fixed in next Maintenance Release? If yes, it will help me greatly.
I know that moving caret will force BracketHighlighting refresh, but it also brings many troubles.
Moving caret will modify "SelectedView.FirstVisibleDisplayLineIndex" and cause some other issues.
I know you are very busy now. But I really hope that you can put it in your next maintenance release.

BTW, the following code will fail and I am not sure it is a bug:
protected override void OnLostFocus(EventArgs e)
{
base.OnLostFocus(e);
index = SelectedView.FirstVisibleDisplayLineIndex;
BracketHighlightingVisible = false;
// Actipro Syntax Editor has a bug:
// BracketHighlightingVisible only takes effect after changing Caret. :(
int offset = Caret.Offset;
Caret.Offset++;
Caret.Offset = offset;
// I think I has restore the Caret.offset, but SelectedView.FirstVisibleDisplayLineIndex
// has been changed.
// STRANGE!!!!!!!
Debug.Assert(index == SelectedView.FirstVisibleDisplayLineIndex);
}

Waiting your response.
Best regards,
Dong

Posted 18 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA

Two things have been done for the next maintenance release (should be out next week):

1) Bracket highlighting indicators will now instantly update when the BracketHighlightingVisible property is changed. So no more need to move the caret.

2) Bracket highlights will now only display in a view that has focus. If you switch to another view then the highlights will jump to that one. If the editor loses focus then they will hide. If a view gets focus again, the highlights will reappear in that view. Highlights are associated with the context of the caret so this modified behavior makes sense.

I also tested the code change with displaying a member list and the highlights should no longer flicker when clicking on the member list.

Actipro Software Support

Posted 18 years ago by Joris Koster - Paragon Decision Technology

Great! thanks!

The latest build of this product (v24.1.0) was released 7 months ago, which was after the last post in this thread.

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