https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=502416
Bug ID: 502416
Summary: Text box dimensions are handled incorrectly - any
changes to text should not affect the box size, and
vice versa
Classification: Applications
Product: krita
Version: 5.2.9
Platform: Microsoft Windows
OS: Microsoft Windows
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: Tool/Text
Assignee: krita-bugs-n...@kde.org
Reporter: jnewma...@gmx.com
Target Milestone: ---
When a text box is created, the program REQUIRES that a box be drawn to
indicate the size and location of the desired box, but then it immediately
discards all that information but the anchor/starting point, and recreates a
text box that is defined by the contents of the box. This makes using the text
box very difficult for text that gets modified.
If the text box resizes every time text is entered or edited, then the box has
to be continually repositioned if any alignment other than left is desired. If
using Centered or Right alignment, then adding text changes the position of the
right side of the box, thus changing the visual position of the text on the
canvas, and requiring the text box be repositioned to place the text on the
canvas in the visually correct position.
Text boxes should maintain the drawn widths and paragraph styles - changing any
font attributes or text within the box should not automatically change the
dimensions of the text box unless it needs to be taller. And likewise,
changing the dimensions of the text box should not automatically affect the
font attributes of the text within the box (currently, if you widen the box, it
changes the kerning of the text to fit the new box width).
If it's desired to center a text title on a canvas, one should be able to draw
a text box the width of the canvas, enter some text, center it, and have the
box width remain the width of the canvas and have the anchor point of the text
be set to the center of of the box.
What actually happens is that as soon as the box is drawn full width, it is
instantly resized to the effective width of the default placeholder text using
the default/last font settings (font size, weight and kerning). That makes
being required to draw a box in the first place a wasted effort, as the only
thing used from that effort is the initial anchor point of the left edge of the
drawn box.
As such, the box has to then be repositioned to center the box within the
canvas to get the desired effect. Even if the text is long enough to require
multiple lines, 1) it does not autowrap (again does not respect the original
size of the box drawn), and 2) it still resizes the text box to the widest line
of text, meaning it has to be repositioned manually to the center it on the
canvas again.
And even after you've entered all your text and repositioned things as desired
to get things visually centered, if you then edit the text, and the box width
changes (as it likely will), you have to reposition the box again to recenter
the text on the canvas.
That is not how any of that should be handled. The text box should retain the
dimensions that were initially drawn, and the text positioned accordingly
within that box.
If it is left "left aligned", and does not have enough characters to fill the
box, then the text anchor point should be on the left edge of the box and there
will just be empty space on the right.
If the text is set to "right aligned", then the text anchor point should be at
the right edge of the text box, and there will be empty space to the left of
the text if there are not enough characters to fill the box.
If the text is "aligned center", then the text anchor point should be set to
the center of the text box, and if there are not enough characters to fill the
box, then the empty space will be split evenly left and right.
Text should be automaticaly wrapped to stay within the dimensions of the drawn
text box so the dimensions of the text box are not disturbed.
There should be no changes to the dimensions of the text box unless the text
entered wraps and overflows past the bottom of the box - then just the bottom
of the box should be extended to allow the text to be displayed.
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