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7:20:54
jack_rabbit
loke, hmmm. I think that that should already be possible, but I can't think off the top of my head how to do it.
7:23:31
loke
jack_rabbit: you mean copy/paste? Well, you can paste into a text field using some magic combination of meta-keys and mouse click. But it pastes the selection, not the cut buffer.
7:24:48
loke
Alos, my favourite pet peeve, that i have on numerous occasions tried to fix myself, is the inability for a pane to handle dynamic resize properly.
7:25:47
loke
If you could embed Climacs or something as a replacement, things would be a lot better.
7:26:19
jack_rabbit
I've not had to deal with that. My mail client never got as far as input. I halted before completing the output code.
7:26:47
loke
jack_rabbit: my applications have all gotten to the point of input, at which point both collapsed
7:27:25
loke
Th main requirement I failed on is that both applications needed to have multi-line text input (with automatic soft word-wrap)
7:27:58
loke
jack_rabbit: how do you handle the case where text input grows wider (or higher) than the visible view?
7:28:46
loke
If I limit to a single line, then the text input field tends to grow without bound, making panes to the left/right become smaller. These panes then never recturn to their original size.
7:29:22
loke
Multiline simply doesn't work at all, since DREI simply doesn't support soft line breaks.
7:30:41
loke
Sorry for sounding negative. It's just because I really want to love CLIM, but the implementation keeps fighting me every time I try to go further than your regular proof-of-concept.
7:31:30
loke
I also started working on my own text edit field. It works, kinda, but has design issues so I should restart that.