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I'll need to look at the backspace issue and get back to you...

For setting the text, you can use utf8 encoded strings as this is the native type supported by the gui system. What I might do is add a couple of helper methods to the system that will enable you do encode and decode utf8 data; I think this would be a big help, what do you think?

I tried to reproduce the backsapce issue, but it all worked okay here I think I didn't do something right though.

I changed the font from tahoma.ttf to simhei.ttf and that worked okay. So I thought I'd try something different; I set up the Chinese IME and played about with that but didn't get anywhere, of course this was probably more to do with the fact I don't know Chinese than anything else Really you should be able to use the IME to enter the Chinese into the editbox, but I couldn't get that to work properly (I'll have to spend a little while seeing if I can get some of this working a bit better).

Can you explain in more detail what I have to do to demonstrate the problem? Also is it the 'abc' glyphs that do not delete or was it Chinese?

Thanks for any extra information

Thanks for the clarification.

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Thanks,

CE.

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I can download from you if you already have FTP set-up, though not for a little while as I will not be at the compuer I'll reply again this afternoon and arrange the download

CE.

I'm downloading now... Currently I have a 4 hour estimate for completion

CE.

Okay then, we'll try that

I'll cancel the download...

CE.

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I have tested out the app. The problem appears to be that when e->getKeyChar() is called from the GuiManager::keyPressed method for injecting inputs, the method is returning character codes for the non-printable codes which are then getting inserted into the editbox (which means there are glyphs defined for those code points).

So what is happening when you press backspace is that the character to the left of the carat is being erased, but is immediately replaced with a code point generated for the backspace key, so you can delete a single character and then you get stuck.

For a fix: in the GuiManager::setupGlyphsSet() method change the mAsciiSet initialisation to start at 32 (space character) instead of 0, this should ensure that those non-printable codes are rejected properly

HTH

CE.