Name: dk106046 Date: 01-21-2002

The Testcase below appears to be resolved in the Merlin build I used (1.4.0 b92). However, per IBM interest in this bug, an additional Test Case has been provided & uploaded as an attachment (Test.jar). Running this testcase, the bug appears to resurface.
  
Name: skT88420 Date: 01/24/2000


java version "1.3beta"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.3beta-O)
Java(TM) HotSpot Client VM (build 1.3beta-O, mixed mode)


Creating an HTML text from scratch in a JtextPane is working well, but
editing an existing text is a real nightmare.
As soon as you set a text by the JtextPane.setText() method and if a
paragraph has an attribute (like « align=center » for example), the editing
operation becomes weird.
If you put the caret on the beginning of the first blank line after this
text, and try to delete previous characters with "backspace" key, then you
will see that characters are deleted but the caret stays on the blank line.
This is definately not comfortable for the end user.

The following simple code shows the bug :


import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;

public class MiniHTMLEditor extends JApplet
{
public void init()
{
JTextPane textPane;
String text = "<p align=center>Please put the caret on the
beginning of the <b>first blank line</b> after this text, and try to <b>delete
previous characters</b> with \"backspace\" key. You will see that characters
are deleted but the caret stays on the blank line.</p>";

textPane = new JTextPane();
textPane.setContentType("text/html");
getContentPane().add(textPane);

textPane.setText(text);
}
                             
public static void main(String[] args)
{
MiniHTMLEditor editor = new MiniHTMLEditor();
editor.init();

    JFrame f = new JFrame();
    f.getContentPane().add("Center", editor);
    f.pack();
    f.setSize(new Dimension(400,300));
    f.show();
}
}
(Review ID: 100291)
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