Undo eventually erases all code

[omadawn]

The built in undo/redo functionality of RSTA is yet another fantastic feature but it does cause one bug in my code. If I hit it enough times it blanks out all the code I have in the editor window. Presumably it is 'undoing' the initial loading of the script I am doing with myTextarea.setText().

Is there a way to tell it to start from a certain point that I can trigger after I load the text?

[robert]

After initializing the editor, all textArea.discardAllEdits().

[omadawn]

Thank you. That solves that issue. I guess I just assumed that the undo behavior indicated that setText was considered an edit and undoAllAdits() was going to clear that out. I should have tested it.

[robert]

If you use a TextEditorPane (extends RSyntaxTextArea but adds loading, saving, dirty checking, etc.), it will automatically clear the undo stack when loading a new file into the editor.

[omadawn]

I am using TextEditorPane but it isn't automatically clearing the undo history. The above mechanism is working though.

[robert]

Sorry, I should have been more clear. If you use one of TextEditorPane's load(), save(), or saveAs() methods, it should automatically clear the undo stack. If it doesn't then it's a bug. Calling setText() will always be an undoable edit, as you've noticed.

You might need the latest from SVN for this though, as I noticed at least one instance recently where this wasn't happening.

[omadawn]

Now that makes more sense. I'm actually instantiating the texteditorpane with the fileLocation as an argument which is equivalent to Load() and that DOES work. ^_^