[josm-dev] Possible fix for auto-complete annoyance

[Ulf Lamping]

Frederik Ramm schrieb:
>> I was able to fix the auto-complete problem by moving the logic that
>> selects the untyped substring of the match to a point after the
>> selection is set. I think with the Windows theme, setting the selected
>> item automatically causes the entire field to be highlighted.
>>     
> I have applied this patch and it is already in the currently
> downloadable josm-latest.jar. I haven't tested it really because I am
> a bit tired of this endless autocomplete discussion. One more
> complaint and you'll get plain text fields again ;-)
>   
Please don't feel annoyed. The main problem here was, that you (and 
other?) JOSM developers are working on unix-like systems, while the 
problem showed up only with the windows theme.

... and with the Windows theme, the behaviour was really a PITA. Fixing 
a problem lot's of people often complain about that you as a developer 
just don't see is a pain, I know.
> No, honest, maybe everyone can have a look if it works better now in
> their preferred look and feel, with their preferred window manager and
> operating system, and if it is better now then we'll just leave it so.
>   
Yes, it's working much better now (with the Windows look and feel) and 
the CDE/motif seems to be ok as well. Now, the autocompletion works as I 
would expect it to ;-)

It seems we'll finally found a solution, thanks to Karl ...

Regards, ULFL