[Qt-interest] Bidi changes in 4.7

[Joshua Grauman]

Thanks, this helps. It's not in the Changes file, I looked there. If 
anyone knows anything more about this I'd appreciate it. I'll keep 
looking. Thanks!

Josh

> Josh wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I've just upgraded from 4.7 beta 1 to 4.7 final (under Linux). There seem
>> to be a number of changes to the way Qt handles Bidi (right to left) text
>> in 4.7 final. I tried to look for documentation that tells all the
>> specific changes and couldn't find anywhere.
>>
>> The one specific change that I need to figure out how to "undo" is the
>> placement of right-to-left text. For all my QLabels and QTextEdit's, when
>> they start with Hebrew text, *now* the whole line is aligned-right,
>> whereas before the alignment was still aligned-left even though the text
>> was right-to-left. The layout-direction of all my widgets is set to
>> left-to-right (not auto). So I'm wondering how to go back to the old
>> behavior? I'm posting here because it doesn't seem like a bug, but a
>> conscious decision to change how bidi works, but maybe it is a bug?
>
> I've seen somewhere what's exactly changed and what to do in this case but
> cannot remember url.Changes affected text edit widgets (QLineEdit,
> QTextEdit etc), and from 4.7 default behaviour is auto for LTR and RTL. You
> must create and send an event about it to each control to get old
> behaviour, that's all I remember , but don't know what event.
> Try to look into Changes text of 4.7 source, maybe it's there ...
> z.
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