bug: text input caret position not properly updated

[naziozeno]

Description

When what you type goes beyond the chat's line of sight, everything typed is hidden and only appears if you click with the right arrow key.

Steps to Reproduce

1 - Type any message until it goes beyond the chat's line of sight.
2 - Click the right arrow key on your keyboard; now you'll be able to see what you've typed in addition to what was previously displayed.
3 - if u press backspace you can't see the final of the message.

Version with bug

0.8.0-beta.559

Last version that worked well

idk

Affected platforms

Windows 11, Windows 10

Is this bug platform-specific?

• Yes this is platform-specific issue

Did you find any workaround?

No workaround

Relevant log output

Duplicate Bug Check

• This bug report is not a duplicate to the best of my knowledge.

[Sh4d0v]

I tried to locate the cause of this problem.
I checked the gui json file from the chat and label in detail.
I tried modifying Intersect.Client.Core/Interface/Game/Chat/Chatbox.cs‎ and still no result. I'm starting to think it's a Gwen problem.

You can check my Chatbox.cs after changes anyway.
https://github.com/Sh4d0v/dbo3/tree/main/Intersect.Client.Core/Interface/Game/Chat/Chatbox.cs

[Copperbane]

I tracked back the version that started with problems and was the versión 0.8.0 beta.382
The latest to work fine was the version 0.8.0 beta.381

The problem is with Gwen and my guess is that is on label.cs, text,cs or base.cs files. Still can't figure the real reason, but that is what i found out.

[pandinocoder]

If I had to guess, something in the changes between 381 and 382 to either Label or Textbox is the cause, but I don't see anything that stands out so I don't have any instructions.

While I don't have any particular instructions, I have a suspicion is that it's OnTextChanged() that calls the code that re-aligns the text input in the textbox, and that something in those changes causes doEvents to be false so the method is never called in SetText(string? text, bool doEvents = true).

[Copperbane]

Found the problem. Line 762 on label.cs, inside OnChildBoundsChanged, its going to an empty function and never call "Invalidate()" if is not configured as "AutoSize". So you just need to add "invalidate" on that line (or the empy function) and all is fixed. But i still think there is something more... i feel some kind of "resistance" on the caret.