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Roger Whitcomb commented on PIVOT-696: -------------------------------------- Extended the support of converting tabs to appropriate number of spaces to "insertText" also (which means "paste" also works): [trunk]: Sending wtk\src\org\apache\pivot\wtk\TextArea.java Transmitting file data . Committed revision 1410555. [branches/2.0.x]: Sending . Sending wtk\src\org\apache\pivot\wtk\TextArea.java Transmitting file data . Committed revision 1410556. > TextPane support for entering tab characters and tab stops > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: PIVOT-696 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIVOT-696 > Project: Pivot > Issue Type: Improvement > Affects Versions: 2.0 > Reporter: Taro App > Assignee: Noel Grandin > Priority: Minor > Fix For: 2.1 > > > Currently, if you press Ctrl+Tab in a TextArea, series of space characters > entered. (The number of space characters can be specified with tabWidth > property.) Text containing tabs can be set by TextArea.setText, but then tab > characters are not displayed. It is desirable that TextArea supports tab > stops so users can enter and see tab characters. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira