Bug 197360

Summary:	[misc] org.eclipse.jface.text.TextViewer#setTextColor method is logically wrong
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Cagatay Calli <ccalli>
Component:	Text	Assignee:	Platform-Text-Inbox <platform-text-inbox>
Status:	ASSIGNED ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	minor
Priority:	P5	CC:	daniel_megert
Version:	3.3	Keywords:	helpwanted
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Cagatay Calli

2007-07-20 19:57:23 EDT

Build ID: I20070621-1340

Steps To Reproduce:
1. A given text is styled (background color is set, underlined etc.).
2. setTextColor() method is applied using a color.
3. Old styling is lost.


More information:
I think that losing all styling after using one method to set foreground color is logically wrong and underlying implementation should be changed.

Comment 1 Dani Megert

2007-07-23 05:02:47 EDT

You're right. As you might have noticed this method is not used inside the SDK. Even if the method works correctly it will run into troubles when used in a viewer that uses a presentation reconciler to set the style ranges.

We won't work on this unless we get a patch.

Comment 2 Eclipse Webmaster

2019-09-06 16:04:02 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.

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