Re: Tabs in FXTextField

I accidentally only replied to Jeroen earlier, so here's my question 
again, to the whole list:

In this case, the way the tabs got into this field was via copy & paste. 
Is there a good way to catch that and remove the tabs?

Enno.

On 4/7/2024 4:51 PM, Jeroen van der Zijp wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Apr 2024 19:33:42 +0200
> Enno Rehling <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> I have a FXTextField in my application, and when I insert text into it that
>> starts one or more leading tab characters, the rendering of the text goes
>> haywire:
>> [image: fox_text.png]
>> The text that it's trying to display is "<tab><tab>Lorem ipsum dolor sit
>> amet, consectetur adipiscing elit" - notice the white space at the end
>> followed by another t, and the weird artifacts in  "adipiscing" that make
>> the word unreadable.
>> This artifacting gets word when I move the text cursor backwards through
>> the text:
> 
> Interesting.  The reason I don't think I've seen this is because
> there's no way to enter a tab into FXTextField.  Or any control character,
> for that matter. So text drawing in FXTextField has no "substitute" characters
> to render the way FXText does.
> 
> Maybe this is something that should be fixed, or at very least, protected against.
> 
> 
>   -- JVZ
> 
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