[Eric] Eric4 on Mac Os X, problem with highlighting boxes

[Larry Shaffer]

Hi Christian,

See my post yesterday that outlines this problem:

 Weird Eric4 Editor Font Spacing and Highlighting

It happens when you install the Cocoa-only version of Qt 4.6.1
(qt-mac-cocoa-opensource-4.6.1.dmg), which also happens when installing via
MacPorts. If you download the qt-mac-opensource-4.6.1.dmg version of Qt,
which still has Carbon code, eric should work correctly. This appears to be
a problem with the underlying QScintilla Qt widget that eric uses for its
editors, and only appears to be a problem with Macs at this time.

http://get.qt.nokia.com/qt/source/qt-mac-opensource-4.6.1.dmg

This explains the differences between the Qt installs:

http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.6/developing-on-mac.html

but not why the problem might be happening. I have posted to the QScintilla
list about this issue.

-- 
Larry


> From: Christian Prinoth <christian at prinoth.name>
> Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:01:02 +0100
> To: <eric at riverbankcomputing.com>
> Subject: [Eric] Eric4 on Mac Os X, problem with highlighting boxes
> 
> Hi, I just installed Eric 4.0.4 on Mac Os X 10.6.2, using default
> system python. I get a weird display problem: the editor shows ³boxes²
> around words if one clicks on them. What happens is that these boxes
> are somewhat off to the right, and if I click on those words, the
> whole line shifts to the right to fit into the boxes. Anyone else
> notice this?
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