From a7f33da90015d6a88d2e0f30629849d47cc43004 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ed <eddavies95@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2021 17:56:43 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Accessibility:  Set caret position when passed an empty range
 selection in CodeEditorComponent and TextEditor AccessibilityTextInterface
 implementations

---
 modules/juce_gui_basics/widgets/juce_TextEditor.cpp      | 9 ++++++++-
 .../code_editor/juce_CodeEditorComponent.cpp             | 6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/modules/juce_gui_basics/widgets/juce_TextEditor.cpp b/modules/juce_gui_basics/widgets/juce_TextEditor.cpp
index fbae68c90c..7317805fb4 100644
--- a/modules/juce_gui_basics/widgets/juce_TextEditor.cpp
+++ b/modules/juce_gui_basics/widgets/juce_TextEditor.cpp
@@ -2718,7 +2718,14 @@ private:
 
         int getTotalNumCharacters() const override           { return textEditor.getText().length(); }
         Range<int> getSelection() const override             { return textEditor.getHighlightedRegion(); }
-        void setSelection (Range<int> r) override            { textEditor.setHighlightedRegion (r); }
+
+        void setSelection (Range<int> r) override
+        {
+            if (r.isEmpty())
+                textEditor.setCaretPosition (r.getStart());
+            else
+                textEditor.setHighlightedRegion (r);
+        }
 
         String getText (Range<int> r) const override
         {
diff --git a/modules/juce_gui_extra/code_editor/juce_CodeEditorComponent.cpp b/modules/juce_gui_extra/code_editor/juce_CodeEditorComponent.cpp
index 30199fbca8..de0159e1c3 100644
--- a/modules/juce_gui_extra/code_editor/juce_CodeEditorComponent.cpp
+++ b/modules/juce_gui_extra/code_editor/juce_CodeEditorComponent.cpp
@@ -71,6 +71,12 @@ private:
 
         void setSelection (Range<int> r) override
         {
+            if (r.isEmpty())
+            {
+                codeEditorComponent.caretPos.setPosition (r.getStart());
+                return;
+            }
+
             auto& doc = codeEditorComponent.document;
 
             codeEditorComponent.selectRegion (CodeDocument::Position (doc, r.getStart()),