[PIVOT-891] Fixes to selection logic in TextArea and TextPane

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Reopened
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.2, 2.0.4
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.3, 2.1
• Component/s: wtk-terra
• Labels: text-selection
• Environment: All
• Assignee: Roger Lee Whitcomb
• Reporter: Roger Lee Whitcomb
• Created: 31/Jan/13 00:58
• Updated: 25/Apr/18 18:03

Description

Currently (in TextArea at least) if you type Shift-Down and select a line or two, then do Shift-Up it will extend the beginning of the area, instead of reducing the end that you just extended. This is not how any other editor works.

Also would like to have double-click select the "word" the mouse is pointing to, as other editors do.

We'd like TextArea and TextPane (at least, maybe TextInput also) do the same things.

Issue Links

• is related to: PIVOT-685 SHIFT+DOWN keystroke within TextArea do not expand the selection past an empty line
• is related to: PIVOT-903 Port text selection changes from TextArea to TextPane