Disable text shadow on selection text (closes ryzom/ryzomcore#214

nel/include/nel/gui/view_text.h

@@ -118,6 +118,8 @@ namespace NLGUI
 		// Force only a subset of letter to be displayed. Default is 0/0xFFFFFFFF
 		void enableStringSelection(uint start, uint end);
 		void disableStringSelection();
+		void setShadowInSelection(bool s) { m_DisableShadowInSelection = !s; }
+		bool getShadowInSelection() const { return !m_DisableShadowInSelection; }
 
 		/// Get
 		std::string		getText() const { return _HardText.empty() ? _Text : _HardText; }
@@ -448,6 +450,7 @@ namespace NLGUI
 		bool	_StrikeThrough : 1;
 		bool    _ContinuousUpdate : 1;
 		bool	_Setuped : 1;
+		bool	m_DisableShadowInSelection : 1;
 
 		uint	_TextSelectionStart;
 		uint	_TextSelectionEnd;

nel/src/gui/group_editbox.cpp

@@ -755,6 +755,9 @@ namespace NLGUI
 		// Display the selection if needed
 		if (_CurrSelection == this && _SelectCursorPos!=_CursorPos)
 		{
+			// flush so that selection quad is covering text
+			rVR.flush();
+
 			sint32	blankTextId= rVR.getBlankTextureId();
 			CRGBA	col= _BackSelectColor;
 			col.A= CWidgetManager::getInstance()->getGlobalColorForContent().A;

nel/src/gui/view_text.cpp

@@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ namespace NLGUI
 		_TextSelection= false;
 		_TextSelectionStart= 0;
 		_TextSelectionEnd= std::numeric_limits<uint>::max();
+		m_DisableShadowInSelection = true;
 
 		_InvalidTextContext= true;
 		_FirstLineX = 0;
@@ -1188,9 +1189,10 @@ namespace NLGUI
 		{
 			if (_Lines.empty()) return;
 
+			bool drawShadow = !(_TextSelection && m_DisableShadowInSelection);
 			TextContext->setHotSpot (UTextContext::BottomLeft);
-			TextContext->setShaded (_Shadow);
-			TextContext->setShadeOutline (_ShadowOutline);
+			TextContext->setShaded (_Shadow && drawShadow);
+			TextContext->setShadeOutline (_ShadowOutline && drawShadow);
 			TextContext->setShadeColor (shcol);
 			TextContext->setShadeExtent (_ShadowX*oow, _ShadowY*ooh);
 			TextContext->setFontSize (_FontSize*_Scale);
@@ -1320,9 +1322,10 @@ namespace NLGUI
 		{
 			nlassert(_Index != 0xFFFFFFFF);
 
+			bool drawShadow = !(_TextSelection && m_DisableShadowInSelection);
 			TextContext->setHotSpot (UTextContext::BottomLeft);
-			TextContext->setShaded (_Shadow);
-			TextContext->setShadeOutline (_ShadowOutline);
+			TextContext->setShaded (_Shadow && drawShadow);
+			TextContext->setShadeOutline (_ShadowOutline && drawShadow);
 			TextContext->setShadeColor (shcol);
 			TextContext->setShadeExtent (_ShadowX*oow, _ShadowY*ooh);
 			TextContext->setFontSize (_FontSize*_Scale);