Re: Text drag & drop

On 29 April 2016 14:43:00 BST, Vincent Sanders <vince@netsurf-browser.org> wrote:
>On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 06:13:18PM +0100, Chris Young wrote:
>> On Wed, 27 Apr 2016 16:47:15 +0100, Richard Torrens (lists) wrote:
>>
>> > Somewhere between 3492 and 3507 the ability to mark text, drag and
>drop
>> > elsewhere has been lost. Also the find text does not mark the
>finds.
>> >
>> > This was very useful! I hope it's temporary thing?
>>
>> Marking text isn't working correctly on the Amiga version either.
>Put
>> it on the bugtracker if you haven't already.
>>
>
>Apologies for this Chris. I have been making some core changes
>improving the font layout API and messed up converting some
>frontends. I fixed the others but you got to Amiga before I had
>chance. Thanks for that

No problem. I saw what you did with the RISC OS version so I figured the fix would be the same. :)

>I have also recently changed the warn_user API. The core have very,
>very few usages of this left and mostly returns nserror from API
>letting the frontends report errors as they see fit. However this
>means frontends now provide the warning API through the miscellaneous
>operations table. Frontend code that should generate user warnings
>(amiga_warn_user for the amiga frontend) should be called directly
>
>To avoid breakage I kept the old warn_user() API in utils/utils.[ch]
>while I carefully remove usages. Rather than risk me breaking your
>frontend again might it be possible for you to remove the use of this
>API?

Yes, no problem.

I'm having some problems accessing this email account from home, so whilst I'm struggling typing on my phone, can you kick off a rebuild of the ppc-amiga toolchain please? I added some includes I now need for the version in master.

Thanks
Chris