Re: Problems Editing text in shape

[Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk>]

On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 10:24, Rory McKinley wrote:
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> Hi List
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> I have noticed the following "undocumented features" when editing text
> within UML activity and state shapes. I am running v0.94 on Win XP SP2.
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> 1) When editing the text, the displayed position of the cursor is not
> always the actual position of the cursor.
> 2) Sometimes when editing text, text within the shape will suddenly be
> reduced in size to such a degree as to be illegible, forcing me to zoom
> in. This change appears to be temporary as after a while it appears
> restored , but I do not know what triggers the process.
> 3) Sometimes when moving shapes, the shapes are suddenly resized much
> larger than is required.
> 
> I know that Win Xp (and believe me if the work environment allowed I
> would not use XP) versions of Dia probably has more foibles than the
> *nix version, but is there any known cure for the above phenomena?

These are all symptoms of the same bug, namely that text sometimes (i no
easily reproducible fashion) gets rendered at wrong sizes.  Probably a
problem with the font layout cache, but without it rendering becomes
very slow.  The only fix I know of causes massive memory leaks.

-Lars