I'm having a problem with TextArea.getSelectionStart/End() under the Solaris
JDK. Briefly, the reported selection becomes unresponsive to user clicks
after either an explicit TextArea.select() or a TextArea.replaceText() with
a selection that intersects the range being replaced. The caret in the
window responds to clicks, but the value reported by getSelectionStart/End()
becomes fixed. The code below can be used to demonstrate this behavior. The
problem does not appear under the 1.0.2 Windows JDK.
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/* Press 'g' in this app to print the current TextArea.getSelectionStart() to
    the console. This may be 'stuck' at startup. Press an arrow key to unstick
    it, then click at various locations and press 'g' to observe that the
    getSelectionStart() is accurately reporting the selection point. Press 's'
    to set the TextArea selection programmatically, the click & press 'g' to
    show that the reported selection is now stuck at 10 even thought the visual
    selection indicated by the caret is changed by clicking the mouse. Unstick
    the selection with an arrow key. Selection 3 or more characters, then press
    'r' to replace all but the first and last chars of the selection with "foo".
    Click and press 'g' to show that the reported selection is again stuck.
    Press 'x' to exit the app.
    */
    
import java.awt.*;

class foo extends Frame
{
public static void
main( String[] args )
{
foo ff = new foo();
ff.show();
}

TextArea ta = new TextArea( "abc\ndef\nhij\nklm\n" );

public
foo()
{
super( "foo" );
resize( 200, 200 );
add( "Center", ta );
}

public boolean
keyDown( Event event, int key )
    {
     if ( 'r' == key ) {
     ta.replaceText( "foo\n", ta.getSelectionStart() + 1, ta.getSelectionEnd() - 1 );
     return true;
     }
     else if ( 's' == key ) {
     ta.select( 10, 10 );
     return true;
     }
     else if ( 'g' == key ) {
     System.err.println( ta.getSelectionStart() );
     return true;
     }
     else if ( 'x' == key ) {
     System.exit(0);
     }

     return false;
    }
}