Bug 185966

Summary: [linked mode] Consider making dashed line for linked mode master the default
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Dani Megert <daniel_megert>
Component: TextAssignee: Platform-Text-Inbox <platform-text-inbox>
Status: ASSIGNED --- QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3 CC: markus.kell.r, martinae
Version: 3.3   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
Whiteboard: fix candidate
Bug Depends on: 205728, 184492    
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Description Dani Megert CLA 2007-05-08 11:17:51 EDT 
The new dashed line drawing strategy around the master linked position is better recognizable and is visible for selected and for unselected text.

We should consider making this the default.
Comment 1 Dani Megert CLA 2007-06-15 07:43:47 EDT 
Markus, please add your comments here. You had some negative comments about this recently.
Comment 2 Markus Keller CLA 2007-06-15 08:34:00 EDT 
Created attachment 71442 [details]
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(In reply to comment #1)
The dashed lines look strange with short names and small editor fonts: On first sight, they look like a bunch of randomly placed dashed, since their rectangular form is not completely visible.

A fix could be to make sure all corners are drawn with full 3 pixels of horizontal and vertical lines and only start with dashes after the 3 pixels adjacent to the corners.
Comment 3 Markus Keller CLA 2007-06-15 12:00:56 EDT 
Created attachment 71477 [details]
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Previous attachment was BMP but was submitted as PNG. This happened because MS Paint was so stupid and saved a BMP into a .png file, and Firefox was so stupid and rendered a file with mime type image/png as BMP without saying a word...
Comment 4 Markus Keller CLA 2007-06-15 12:06:50 EDT 
Created attachment 71480 [details]
add no-dash-zone to corners

Here's a patch to experiment with no-dash-zones in corners.
Comment 5 Dani Megert CLA 2008-04-24 06:08:50 EDT 
Comment on attachment 71480 [details]
add no-dash-zone to corners

Marking patch obsolete as drawing is now done by SWT.
Comment 6 Dani Megert CLA 2008-04-24 06:15:06 EDT 
Too late to change defaults. Will make final decision once bug 205728 is fixed.
Comment 7 Dani Megert CLA 2008-04-26 06:15:57 EDT 
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Comment 8 Eclipse Webmaster CLA 2019-09-06 16:05:43 EDT 
This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.