2 JQT bugs

[Jan-Pieter Jacobs]

I'd like to report two bugs in JQt. One is a crash, the other a mere annoyance.

0. Opening the search box with ctrl-f in a file tab the Editor, closing the (last) tab and/or the Editor, does not make the search window disappear. Pressing any of the find buttons crashes J. Probably the search interface should be closed together with the last tab.

1. Quite a while ago, I proposed to have a "smart" home key behaviour that moves the cursor to the first non-space character in the line if it is not yet there, and to the beginning of the line when it is already at that location. This works correctly in both Term and Editor.

When combined with shift for selecting text, things are a bit quirky, I'll illustrate with an example (| marks the initial cursor location)

In Term, When starting as:

   foo bar| 

shift-home for the first time selects foo bar correctly, but repeating results in only the leading spaces being selected, while I would expect the selection to contain the spaces and "foo bar".

In Editor, the same example just selects to the beginning of the line in one go.

It would be nice if this behaviour would be harmonised.

   JVERSION
Engine: j9.7.0-beta12/j64avx2/linux
Build: commercial/2026-02-14T02:06:49/clang-14-0-0/SLEEF=1
Library: 9.7.8
Qt IDE: 2.5.10/5.12.8(5.15.17)
OS Ver: Ubuntu 25.10 6.17.0-14-generic
Platform: Linux 64
Installer: j9.7 install
InstallPath: /home/jpjacobs/j9.7
Contact: www.jsoftware.com

Thanks a lot.

Best regards,

Jan-Pieter

[chris burke]

Thanks, both bugs should be fixed now. The current version is 2.6.2:

JVERSION
Engine: j9.7.0-beta12/j64avx2/linux
Build: commercial/2026-02-14T02:06:49/clang-14-0-0/SLEEF=1
Library: 9.7.8

Qt IDE: 2.6.2/6.10.1(6.10.1)
OS Ver: Linux Mint 22.3 6.8.0-100-generic
Platform: Linux 64
...

[Michael Day]

I see my JQT version is still 2.5.2/6.8.2 -  is the fix still waiting to
be made in
the latest Beta?   I assumed Package Manager update/all should work.

JVERSION

Engine: j9.7.0-beta12/j64avx2/windows
Build: commercial/2026-02-14T02:11:10/clang-19-1-5/SLEEF=1
Library: 9.7.8
Qt IDE: 2.5.10/6.8.2(6.8.2)
OS Ver: Windows 11 Version 25H2 10.0.26200
Platform: Win 64
...

Thanks,

Mike

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[chris burke]

Your Qt installation needs updating. You could wait for the next beta
release (beta13) and then install the windows AIO, or install the
current beta12 AIO and afterwards run updatejqt.cmd in the J
installation directory.