RFR: 4512626: Non-editable JTextArea provides no visual indication of keyboard focus [v2]

Mon Dec 5 18:41:08 UTC 2022

On Mon, 5 Dec 2022 16:42:39 GMT, Alexey Ivanov <aivanov at openjdk.org> wrote:

> How do native apps on macOS handle the situation? Especially those developed by Apple?

It is quite hard to find a relevant case but so far it seems that it is all over the place on Mac OS - in majority of the apps where it allows selection in non-editable text components with keyboard it does not show the caret at all. I found only one place that shows caret in non-editable text field - in the project settings of XCode app - and the caret is blinking but i can not say if it is a normal behaviour or if it was somehow customized. My point is that if editable text component can not be visually distinguished from non-editable one it is also not helpful. Like on that XCode page - there are a set of text fields some of them are editable and some of them are not and the only way to distinguish between them is to attempt to type or delete text in them. Honestly so far Linux/Gnome approach just looks more coherent and logical.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/11408