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  2. JDK-8314895

macOS: selection irregularities in TextArea

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    • macOS 13.3.1a

      A weird behavior of selection shape and selected text fill color can be seen in TextArea while selection using mouse (selection using keyboard is prevented by JDK-8296266), as can be seen in the attached video clip.

      To reproduce:
      - run MonkeyTester https://github.com/andy-goryachev-oracle/MonkeyTest , select TextArea page
      - select Text: 'Failed Nav Bug'
      - select Font: (blank) or System Regular
      - click on the first character (on the right) in the Arabic word العربية (\u0627\u0644\u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a\u0629)
      - drag the mouse to the left to select characters one by one

      Two things can be observed (referring to the steps 4 and 5 in the attached image):
      1. blue selection rectangle does not change
      2. inverted text selection color does change

      That is, text selection fill color decouples from the rectangular selection shape.

      The problem *might* be with the System font, setting another font (Tahoma, or Al Nile, Noto Sans Arabic Bold) fixes the issue.

      This issue is not reproducible on Windows.

            prr Philip Race
            angorya Andy Goryachev
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