Note RTL behavior changes in docs and changelog

Task-number: QT-3292
Reviewed-by: Lars Knoll

2 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/dist/changes-4.7.0 b/dist/changes-4.7.0
index 790aabc..01ebf63 100644
--- a/dist/changes-4.7.0
+++ b/dist/changes-4.7.0
@@ -478,6 +478,18 @@ QtCore:
     line breaking, reporting the index of the boundary at which the line
     break should occur rather than the index of the character.
 
+QtGui:
+  - QWidget::setLayoutDirection no longer affects the text layout
+    direction (Qt::LeftToRight or Qt::RightToLeft) of QTextEdit, QLineEdit
+    and widgets based on them. The default text layout direction
+    (Qt::LayoutDirectionAuto) is now detected from keyboard layout and
+    language of the text (conforms to Unicode standards). To
+    programmatically force the text direction of a QTextEdit, you can
+    change the defaultTextOption of the QTextDocument associated with that
+    widget with a new QTextOption of different textDirection property. For
+    QLineEdit, the only way so far is sending a Qt::Key_Direction_L/R
+    keyboard event to that widget.
+
 QtNetwork:
   - Qt does no longer provide its own CA bundle, but uses system APIs for
     retrieving the default system certificates.
diff --git a/src/gui/kernel/qwidget.cpp b/src/gui/kernel/qwidget.cpp
index 3d2bfe2..ea3dcab 100644
--- a/src/gui/kernel/qwidget.cpp
+++ b/src/gui/kernel/qwidget.cpp
@@ -4864,6 +4864,8 @@ void QWidgetPrivate::resolveLayoutDirection()
     has been called for the parent do not inherit the parent's layout
     direction.
 
+    This method no longer affects text layout direction since Qt 4.7.
+
     \sa QApplication::layoutDirection
 */
 void QWidget::setLayoutDirection(Qt::LayoutDirection direction)