Text Object's Tab Problems



  • Please download this file:

    0_1673718208131_Text_Tab_Stops.vstyler

    There are three problems:

    1. Tab stops only appear after clicking an empty region:

    To reproduce this bug, select the text object, then show the Tabs panel (Panels > Text > Tabs).
    The text object in the file is set with several tab stops, but they will not appear until we click an empty region using Transform Tool:

    0_1673718409034_Tab_Stops_Only_Appear_After_Clicking_An_Empty_Region.jpg

    2. Triple-clicking a word should select the whole line where the selected/ highlighted word is located, as in other text editors (e.g. Microsoft Word and Notepad++) and Adobe Illustrator:

    0_1673718521693_Double-Clicking_A_Word_Should_Select_The_Whole_Line.jpg

    3. New text object does not copy the previously-selected text object's tabs:

    To reproduce this bug, select the text object in the file, then create a new text object. Check the new text object's tabs in the Tabs panel (Panels > Text > Tabs):

    0_1673718706539_New_Text_Object_Does_Not_Copy_The_Previous_Text_Object_Tabs.jpg


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    @gotanidea Added this to the backlog.



  • @gotanidea said in Text Object's Tab Problems:

    Double-clicking a word should select the whole line where the selected/ highlighted word is located, as in other text editors (e.g. Microsoft Word and Notepad++) and Adobe Illustrator:

    I would respectfully vote against this change because currently you can double click to get a whole word and click one more time to get the whole line. it gives you the best of both worlds. I usually need to edit single words within a sentence and the current method works well for that

    @gotanidea Have you tried the triple click to select a whole sentence as opposed to a word? Would that work for your purposes?



  • @Boldline Yes, triple-clicking in other text editors and Adobe Illustrator will select one line. I will edit my post