Cascades Development

[borceg]

Hello all,

In my app I use custom qml page (simple text file editor) that have one row with 5 buttons, second row have one textField and the rest of the screen is TextArea, nested/arranged in few containers. Content of TextArea is filled by reading text file:

I use

QTextStream in(&file);
while (!in.atEnd()) {
textHolder->setText(in.readAll().toUtf8());

But, sometimes text is passed in one line to the TextArea, even if the file contains more lines, whitespaces etc. I used the same code for plain Qt program and contents of file is diplayed as it is in the text file.

Next problem, after filling the whole visible TextArea with text input from keyboard, the TextArea scrools automatically but up to certain number of lines (10 +-) and it friezes. I can't scrool it to the top, nor to the bottom. Using resetText() resets the freezed text content, but doesn't return back to top. Tried using ScrollView, but no success. It's preety **bleep** useless.

Also, when virtual keyboard shows up, top of TextArea overlaps the textlabel. Got no idea how to fix this.

I've done the similar thing in Qt for PB, and it works without glitch, but Cascades gives me headaches

Here is my qml file

import bb.cascades 1.0
import Dialog.FileBrowse 1.0
import Dialog.FileSave 1.0


Page {
   content: 
   Container {
        layout: StackLayout {
        }

    //main container
    Container {
            layout: StackLayout {
                layoutDirection: LayoutDirection.LeftToRight
                bottomPadding: 5.0
                leftPadding: 5.0
                rightPadding: 5.0
                topPadding: 5.0
            }
          //  scrollMode: ScrollMode.None
            Button {
                objectName: "open"
                text: "Open"
                onClicked: {
                    filebrowseDialog.show();
                }
                attachedObjects: [
                    FileBrowseDialog {
                        id: filebrowseDialog
                        objectName: "fb"
                        multiselect: false
                        filters: [
                            "*.doc",
                            "*.txt",
                            "*.html",
                            "*.htm",
                            "*.dat",
                            "*.php",
                            "*.*"
                        ]
                        onSelectionCompleted: {
                            if (filebrowseDialog.filepaths.length > 0) {
                                labelID.text = filebrowseDialog.filepaths[0]; 
                                cs.on_openButton_clicked(filebrowseDialog.filepaths[0]);
                            } else {
                                labelID.text = "Nothing selected";
                                
                            }
                        }
                        onSelectionCancelled: {
                           // labelID.text = "File open cancelled";
                           
                           //simulator test, comment it out for release!!!
                           labelID.text = "no REAL file selected";
                           cs.on_openButton_clicked("test.txt");
                        }
                    }
                ]
            }
            Button {
                objectName: "close"
                text: "Clear"
                
            }
            Button {
                objectName: "save"
                text: "Save"
                
            }
             
            Button {
                objectName: "saveAs"
                text: "Save As.."
                attachedObjects: [
                                    FileSaveDialog {
                                        id: filesavedialog
                                        objectName: "fs"
                                       // filesave_filename: "test.txt"
                                        
                                        onSelectionCompleted: {
                                            labelID.text = "Saved to: " + filesavedialog.filepaths[0];
                                            cs.on_saveAsButton_clicked(filesavedialog.filepaths[0]);
                                    }
                                    }
                                ]
                                onClicked: {
                                    filesavedialog.show();
                                }
            }
            Button {
                objectName: "exit"
                text: "Exit"
            }
        }
        Container {
            leftMargin: 0.0
            layout: StackLayout {
                leftPadding: 5.0
                rightPadding: 5.0
                bottomPadding: 5.0
            }
            Label {
                id: labelID
                objectName: "documentName"
                text: ""
                layoutProperties: StackLayoutProperties {
                    verticalAlignment: VerticalAlignment.Center
                    horizontalAlignment: HorizontalAlignment.Center
                }
            }
            ScrollView { id: scrollableTextHolder scrollViewProperties.scrollMode: ScrollMode.Vertical Container { TextArea { objectName: "contentHolder" inputMode: TextAreaInputMode.Text preferredWidth: 1270.0 minWidth: 1270.0 maxWidth: 1270.0 preferredHeight: 590.0 minHeight: 590.0 //maxHeight: 2048.0 } } }
        }
    }
}

[borceg]

Nobody ?

[mgoulet]

Hi,

Have you tried other values than Utf8()? What results would that give you in your case?

I will look into this today and try to reproduce this issue with a sample textfile;

As for the text freezing of the textarea, I would suggest logging an issue:

https://www.blackberry.com/jira/secure/Dashboard.jspa

Martin

[borceg]

Hello,

I tried everything other that UTF8, but no success.

Currently I'm using this:

QTextStream in(&file);
				QString line = "";
				QChar theChar;
				while (!in.atEnd()) {
					in.operator >>(theChar);
					qDebug() << "text redden(QChar): " << theChar << endl;
					line.append(theChar);
				}
							textHolder->setText(line);

which reads the data fine from file (text layout is correct with whitespaces and newline chars), but ONLY if file is saved correctly. When I output simple string with:

QTextStream out(&file);
QString testStr("This \n is \n sample \n\r text.");
//QString textFromArea(textHolder->text());
out << testStr;

 it's written as-is, and reading the filecontents again provide the result that I need. But when I pass the text from TextArea, again layout of the text is not correct, no whitespaces nor newline characters. Even outputing the contents char by char doesn't help. 

I believe that it's TextArea bug or maybe QTextStream fails/rejects to  write newline/space characters to  the file.

Now, I added tha TextArea to ScrollView, but still can't scroll the text with swipe up/down throught the contents on simulator. Entering random length of text  doesn't freeze, but sometimes top left  corner goes into infinity and quickly returns back.

And still can't solve the overlappin problem  

[borceg]

Neither QDataStream fixed my problems. Any ideas how to find the solution ?

[mgoulet]

Hmm have you tried reading the textfile read only or use readLine to read through it?

When you read in text, what are the integer values of whitespaces? Are they what you expect?

Martin

[borceg · Accepted solution]

Sorry for late reply, I fixed the problem last night. Reading the file with this 

QTextStream in(&file);
textHolder->setText(in.readAll());

 or this

QString line = "";
QChar theChar;
while (!in.atEnd()) {
in.operator >>(theChar);
qDebug() << "text redden(QChar): " << theChar << endl;
qDebug() << "character is(category): " << theChar.category() << endl;
line.append(theChar);
}
textHolder->setText(line);

 returned integer values for whitespace and newline characters are OK. Problem comes from saving content to the file. 

Somehow QTextStream recognises newline character and whitespace as [QChar:eparator_Space7Unicode class name Zs] and [QChar:ther_Control10Unicode class name Cc] which are correct but refuses to write them to the file.

I used this to solve my problem. 

QTextStream out(&file);
    		for(int i=0;i<textHolder->text().length();++i){
    		    	    			qDebug() << "text to be written: " << QChar(textHolder->text().at(i)) << endl;
    		    	    			qDebug() << "character is(category): " << textHolder->text().at(i).category() << endl;
    		    	    			if(textHolder->text().at(i).category() == 10){
    		    	    			out << "\n";
    		    	    			}
    		    	    			else{
    		    	    				out << textHolder->text().at(i);
    		    	    			}
    		    	    		}
    		out.flush();

[mgoulet]

Excellent!

Let us know if you come across anything else;

Martin

[borceg]

Waiting for scroll-able TextArea.

[mgoulet]

Right-

The issues you are having definitely suggest an bug report and I see that you have already logged one in regards to this:

https://www.blackberry.com/jira/browse/BBTEN-169

This is definitely a critical issue that should be addressed - Thanks;

Martin