Cursor in Read-Only MultiLineEdit?

Btw, a cursor *is* displayed in a read-only MultiLineEdit.

-Stephan

Malte Timmermann wrote:
> IMHO you don't have to care about if to show a cursor
in "your" dialogs.
> 
> Bill is right that such a cursor is helpful, and for
that reasons we
> have the accessibility options for documents to show a
cursor in
> read-only mode.
> 
> But this is only for documents (right now)...
> 
> So this is a general thing to solve in VCL.
> It's a GUI Toolkit feature, nothing an application
developer should care
> about.
> 
> Malte.
> 
> Bill Haneman wrote, On 12/05/06 14:15:
>> Stephan Bergmann wrote:
>>> All,
>>>
>>> Implementing 
>>> <http://specs.openoffice.o
rg/appwide/packagemanager/online_update_for_extensions.odt&g
t;, 
>>> I was wondering whether or not a cursor should
be displayed in a 
>>> read-only MultiLineEdit (e.g., the
"Description" box in figure 5 or 
>>> the "Result" box in figure 8 of the
above spec.).  Any authoritative 
>>> answer?
>> At the very least, a cursor should be displayable
on request (i.e. via 
>> F7, the 'caret browsing' key), so that blind users
can read these 
>> multi-line text fields.  The presence of a text
cursor makes reading 
>> these multiline fields practical for blind users.
>>
>> In many apps including Firefox/mozilla, F7 toggles
a visible onscreen 
>> text caret in readonly text (for instance in an
HTML page), for this 
>> purpose.
>>
>> regards
>>
>> Bill
>>> -Stephan
>>>
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