Re: Flipping for scrolled windows



On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 10:17:50AM +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote:
> This opens up another question, however: in an application like a text
> editor, what happens if the user-interface and menus is RTL (say, in Hebrew)
> but the actual edited text is LTR (say, a C program)? The above away-from-
> beginnings-of-lines idea suggests that the side of the scrollbar should be
> chosen according to the direction of the actual scrolled window (in this
> case the LTR C program), not of the user interface.

A more complicated question -- what if the BiDi directionality is
per-paragraph instead of per-widget (the widget can contain both
left-aligned and right-aligned paragraphs), should the scrollbar jump
from left to right and back according to what kind of text the cursor
is at?




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