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

[Igor Brejc]

Ulf Lamping wrote:
> 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
>   
Hello,

I agree with Ulf, I'm sorry that Frederik feels annoyed with the whole 
autocomplete issue. Anyway, I didn't even know that the different JOSM 
looks and feels behaved differently in regarding to autocomplete. As far 
as I'm concerned, I'll be happy to use the metal l&f if that's what it 
takes to have a normal autocomplete feature :)
BTW I tried the latest build and the problem still persists in the 
windows l&f.

Regards,
Igor