Bug 571931

Summary:	[StyledText] Ability to show vertical line between characters
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Thomas Singer <ts-swt>
Component:	SWT	Assignee:	Platform-SWT-Inbox <platform-swt-inbox>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3
Version:	4.20
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Thomas Singer

2021-03-13 01:13:26 EST

It should be treated as background (painted before characters). This could be used to show a position where characters were deleted.

Currently, the only workaround I've found so far is to add a (second) Paint listener which is called after the default StyledText and paints the line over the characters. But the disadvantage is that it could paint over characters. I had the case where the vertical line was drawn after a 'n' character and to the user it looked like a 'r' character as a consequence.