[Interest] [Android-development] Text Selection Handles Qt 5.8 QQC2 - some workarounds

[Bernhard B]

Hi Robert,

thanks, voted for the issue!

By the way, there are some more tickets regarding the selection/cursor
handles. e.q QTBUG-58700 and QTBUG-57031.

Unfortunately there seems to be no API to manually hide/show the
selection/cursor handles. Otherwise it would be possible to add some fixes
to the enduser application to fix some issues there in the meantime.

So I hope that one of the Android maintainers finds some time to tackle
some of the issues. I would really appreciate that a LOT and it would for
sure also result in more awesome showcase applications (as I said, in my
experience most of the users start with a TextArea and just a few basic
components).

Bernhard

Am Donnerstag, 10. August 2017 schrieb Robert Iakobashvili :

> Hi Bernhard,
> Absolutely agree. Please, vote for the issue to be fixed. Thanks.
>
> There's a clear business case coming for QWidgets at Android:
>
> Chromebooks get Android apps and there Desktop like apps
> based on Widgets are looking really really good.
>
> Take care!
>
> Kind regards,
> Robert
>
> On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 11:50 AM, Bernhard B <schluchti at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','schluchti at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>
>> I really hope there will be some changes regarding the TextSelection
>> handle implementation on Android for the upcoming Qt 5.9.x releases, as
>> there are a few issues with them.
>>
>> In my eyes having a TextArea with working selection handles is such a
>> basic feature that should work flawlessly with every framework.
>> Unfortunately Qt is lacking here a bit :/
>>
>> I am trying really hard to convince people to give Qt for mobile app
>> development a try. Usually they fall in love with QML very quickly, but
>> it's really hard to make them stick with Qt when such essential things
>> aren't working properly. Typically adding a TextField/TextArea and a few
>> buttons is the first thing that people are trying out.
>>
>> I really hope that there will be changes in the upcoming Qt 5.9 patch
>> release. I am really glad that the selection handle stuff was integrated
>> with Qt 5.8 - that was really awesome and added a big missing piece. But
>> please don't make the mistake and leave it like this.
>>
>> Bernhard
>>
>>
>> Am Donnerstag, 10. August 2017 schrieb Robert Iakobashvili :
>>
>>> On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 8:01 PM, ekke <ekke at ekkes-corner.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Am 25.03.17 um 17:45 schrieb Robert Iakobashvili:
>>>> > On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 7:35 PM, ekke <ekke at ekkes-corner.org> wrote:
>>>> >> Am 25.03.17 um 17:30 schrieb Robert Iakobashvili:
>>>> >>> On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 7:23 PM, ekke <ekke at ekkes-corner.org>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> >>>> I remember some posts about problems with Text Selection Handles
>>>> and Qt 5.8
>>>> >>>> To provide a solution customers can work with I developed some
>>>> workarounds.
>>>> >>>>
>>>> >>>> Today blogged about:
>>>> >>>> https://appbus.wordpress.com/2017/03/25/text-selection-handl
>>>> es-qt-5-8/
>>>> >>>>
>>>> >>>> perhaps it helps others
>>>> >>>>
>>>> >>>> ekke (ekkehard gentz)
>>>> >>>>
>>>> >>> Dear Ekke,
>>>> >>> Thank you very much.
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> Yes, the selection handles are too buggy on Android at Qt-5.8.
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> Do you have recommendations for widgets?
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> Do you know how to get rid from the handles?
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> This is a show stopper for me not to move up from 5.7.
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> Kind regards,
>>>> >>> Robert
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>> I've opened the issue:
>>>
>>> QTBUG-62426 <https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-62426>
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>> Robert
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
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