Version: (using KDE 4.0.0) OS: Linux If one has a textarea, like the one on b.k.o and several lines of text, i.e. more than can be displayed at once in the textarea, and starts to select the text at the end and then moves up the mouse to the beginning, one has to leave the textarea to make the text scroll-up and get to the first line and letter. Yet as soon as the mouse-cursor leaves the textarea, e.g. at the top or side, the selection and scrollbar starts jumping up and down. Expected behaviour would be to keep the selection and scroll up line by line, selecting everything until the first line/letter is reached.
Woah... just tried on revision 764637. The selection is crazy... It looks funny :-) :-) Bug confirmed :-(
It is not just if the textarea has enough text to require scrolling. Even in a partially filled textarea, text selection is broken. Try starting in the middle of the textarea and selecting all of the text from that point to the beginning of the text. You have to hit the beginning of the text almost exactly. If you happen to overshoot and go outside of the textarea, the selection either disappears (if you selected from the very end) or switches to selecting to the end instead of to the beginning.
Konqueror 4.3.0, Qt 4.5.2., Debian Sid Still the same in KDE 4.3.0.
SVN commit 1089664 by ggarand: mitigate textarea selection extension problem by clamping the mouse move event to the widget rect, so that the selection isn't reset when you leave the widget rect while selecting. at least you can now extend+scroll from top to bottom (selecting from bottom to top still doesn't scroll properly though.) possible turnaround would be to send a mousewheel event in the appropriate direction when the mouse event is outside the rect.. CCBUG: 156574 M +16 -0 render_replaced.cpp WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=1089664
Cannot reproduce using KDE 4.4.5.
It's not completely fixed. Generally, in a textarea that has enough text for a scrollbar, starting a selection and moving the mouse outside of the textarea will cause the area to scroll and extend the selection. Maybe that should be a separate bug report?
@Massive: it should be correct to report it as a wish. Thanks
@Missive: if you will open it, please add me on the CC list. Thanks :-)
Added Bug 273282 for the last bit of trouble with selecting text in a textarea.