wxRichTextCtrl bug: style applied to whole line on enter

[PeterO]

I've got this simple rich text:

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 r.WriteText("aaa");
 
 r.BeginTextColour(*wxRED);
 r.WriteText("bbb");
 r.EndTextColour();
 
 r.WriteText("ccc");

It shows as expected.

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But when I Enter in the middle of the coloured section the whole first line is red styled.

style bug - after.png (904 Bytes) Viewed 298 times

I think it's a bug so I've made a ticket for it https://trac.wxwidgets.org/ticket/18494 but maybe I'm doing something wrong, so just to be sure I ask it here as well.

Regards,
Peter

[ONEEYEMAN]

Hi,
If you can reproduce this behavior in the richtext sample, then it definitely a bug.
What's your environment? wx version?

Thank you.

[PeterO]

Windows 10, 1903
wxWidgets master branch latest-dev (as well as v3.1.2)

Noticed if I first center the text and do the same it's handled ok:

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[evstevemd]

Windows 10, 1903
wxWidgets master branch latest-dev (as well as v3.1.2)

Noticed if I first center the text and do the same it's handled ok:
style ok.png

Does it happen with richtexteditor sample?

[PeterO]

Does it happen with richtexteditor sample?

Yes. See the ticket I made for it and it's attachment: https://trac.wxwidgets.org/ticket/18494

[doublemax]

FWIW, you shouldn't get your hopes up to get a fix. I have a total of 4 open tickets regarding wxRTC which are several years old. The wxRTC code is quite complex and "unique", and except for the orginal author Julian Smart there is hardly anyone able to fix anything in it. But unfortunately he's not very active.

[PeterO]

Yes I noticed the other open tickets regarding wxRichTextCtrl. I'm already trying to grasp what's going on but have a hard time understanding some portions of the code. The styling of the paragraph where the break happens is done here: https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/ ... .cpp#L2955

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            if (!(fragment.GetAttributes().GetFlags() & wxTEXT_ATTR_KEEP_FIRST_PARA_STYLE))
            {
                para->SetAttributes(firstPara->GetAttributes());
                para->SetProperties(firstPara->GetProperties());
            }

'para' is the original paragraph, 'firstPara' the first paragraph of the fragment being inserted in 'para'.
But should a paragraph take over the style of a fragment being inserted anyway?

[evstevemd]

FWIW, you shouldn't get your hopes up to get a fix. I have a total of 4 open tickets regarding wxRTC which are several years old. The wxRTC code is quite complex and "unique", and except for the orginal author Julian Smart there is hardly anyone able to fix anything in it. But unfortunately he's not very active.

One time I tried to add export to Richtext and could not wrap my head around it. Of course JS was indeed supportive and failure was on my side. I think Mr. Smart ned to document how the Control works and how the classes interact with each other. Otherwise the control won't get much updates unless he's the one doing it!

[ONEEYEMAN]

Hi,
I think he started dropping out when we switched to git.
Anyway, I hope someone can ping him and hopefully he will come back and support his baby (wxWidgets) again.

Thank you.

[PeterO]

Question: If wxWidgets purpose is to use the platform's native API as much as possible, why doesn't wxRTC use/wrap the richedit control shipped with Windows with all it's functionality? AFAICS it has al the styling and paragraph formatting. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/window ... t-controls

[ONEEYEMAN]

Hi,
It does - look at the wxTextCtrl with TE_RICH2 style.
However, there are some other OSes which does not have support for different styling, paragraph, etc.

That's why Julian created this special wxRTC library to be used there.

Tha's my impression.

Thank you.

[PeterO]

It does - look at the wxTextCtrl with TE_RICH2 style.
However, there are some other OSes which does not have support for different styling, paragraph, etc.

Yes, wxTextCtrl uses the native control. But wxRTC doesn't, it draws text itself using wxDC::DrawText.

But just like wxDataViewCtrl has a native implemention on osx/gtk and a custom for msw, I thought it would be nice if we could use the native msw control with it's formatting/styling functionality.

[ONEEYEMAN]

Hi,
Yes, you can.
Just create a wxTextCtrl object with the TE_RICH2 style.

Thank you.