[OSM-talk] JOSM user interface

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

>> My suspicion is that it's something to do with the edit control and
>> Windows automatically clearing it when you start typing because of  
>> the
>> highlight. Maybe on linux AWT has to do the clearing itself and knows
>> not to in this case?
>>
>> Basically on linux you get an incremental search behaviour and
>> everything works lovely ;-)
>
> I just compared the two and it is exactly that. In Windows (or Windows
> Classic) mode it selects the whole of the item after typing, so  
> replaces
> it on typing another character; whereas the Metal on only selects the
> remaining characters.

Should we then, instead of making the auto-complete a user  
preference, automatically disable it when the "windows" look and feel  
is selected, and enable it otherwise? Or does that sound too much of  
a hack?

Bye
Frederik

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