[news.eclipse.tools.emf] Re: Has anyone experienced something like this?

[VÃctor RoldÃn Betancort <vroldan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Alex,

thanks for your feedback. I've spent a lot of time on this, but finally 
found the problem. I hacked variables value in the code, and suddenly 
everything started to show up fine!

The problem is in org.eclipse.draw2d.text.TextFlow.paintText(Graphics g, 
String draw, int x, int y, int bidiLevel)

protected void paintText(Graphics g, String draw, int x, int y, int 
bidiLevel) {
	if (bidiLevel == -1) {
		g.drawString(draw, x, y);
	} else {
		TextLayout tl = FlowUtilities.getTextLayout();
		if (isMirrored())
			tl.setOrientation(SWT.RIGHT_TO_LEFT);
		tl.setFont(g.getFont());
		tl.setText(draw);
		g.drawTextLayout(tl, x, y);
	}
}

And the responsible is the "bidiLevel".

While debugging, I realized that the value of the text was never 
scrambled, but rather just drawn incorrectly. This argument was always 
set to "-1". I hacked it to be set always to something different to 
"-1", and it worked!

I suspected from it yesterday while trying different eclipse 
installations, GMF crashed with problems related with com.ibm.icu, the 
owner of the "BidiProcessor".

Anyway. Do you have a clue why I'm receiving "-1" in the BidiLevel?