Bug 325405

Summary: Need Combo API to get and set existing selection
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Dani Megert <daniel_megert>
Component: SWTAssignee: Platform-SWT-Inbox <platform-swt-inbox>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3 CC: markus.kell.r
Version: 3.6   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Bug Blocks: 325234    

Description Dani Megert CLA 2010-09-16 01:45:22 EDT 
R3.6.

The current get/setSelection API is not accurate as it destroys the direction of the selection. We need API that returns the exact selection and also allows to set it.

Test Case:
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1. type "text1text2text3" into Combo
2. make following RTL selection:
   [text1<caret><selectionEnd>text2<selectionStart>text3]
3. call getter API
4. call setter API
==> same result as in 2. i.e. RTL selection with caret on the left.
Comment 1 Markus Keller CLA 2010-09-16 06:35:03 EDT 
Bug 103630 requests Combo#getCaretPosition().
Bug 106024 requests similar support for setting a reversed selection in the Text widget (setSelection(int, int) does not handle start > end).
Comment 2 Eclipse Webmaster CLA 2019-09-06 16:04:04 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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