BR: rendered text layout is sometimes wrong/swapped in JUCE8

[djb-2]

Tested on macOS, latest JUCE develop branch (July 16); Xcode 15.2.

How to trigger:

• Open Hello World JUCE8 example from within the projucer
• In HelloWorldDemo.h, change the Label and TextButton text strings as follows:

    Label helloWorldLabel { {}, String("100    +100")};
    TextButton quitButton { String("100    +100") };

In the rendered output, the ‘+’ sign and the spaces are rendered in the wrong order - see screenshot:

This seems to happen with various combinations of numbers, a plus or minus sign, spaces, and more numbers, but not in all cases…? I’ve tested this with different fonts as well but the issue remains.

[djb-2]

Another way to trigger this issue:

open the DemoRunner, and start the CodeEditorDemo

Type the following text:
100, followed by a bunch of spaces, and followed by +100

Output rendered in the demo runner, with characters in the wrong order:

It gets even funnier when putting a plus and minus in-between the area with spaces; depending on the number of spaces, the plus and minus sign swap positions or move around.

[oli1]

Thanks for reporting this.

There is a fix for a few of these text related bugs in the works.

[djb-2]

Good to hear, looking forward to any updates.

[oli1]

This should be fixed on develop.

[djb-2]

Yep, the latest develop version works great; thanks!