react-native-highlight-text-view 0.1.17 → 0.1.18

package/android/src/main/java/com/highlighttext/HighlightTextView.kt

@@ -315,12 +315,38 @@ class HighlightTextView : AppCompatEditText {
       Typeface.create(baseTypeface, style)
     }
     
+    // Save current text to force complete rebuild
+    val currentText = text?.toString() ?: ""
+    val currentSelection = selectionStart
+    
     this.typeface = typeface
     
-    // Force complete layout recalculation with new font metrics
-    // This ensures background highlights recalculate with new ascender/descender values
+    // Force complete text rebuild with new font metrics
+    // This is crucial for fonts with different ascender/descender values like Eczar
     post {
+      // Clear text first to force layout recalculation
+      isUpdatingText = true
+      setText("")
+      
+      // Force measure and layout with empty text
+      measure(
+        MeasureSpec.makeMeasureSpec(width, MeasureSpec.EXACTLY),
+        MeasureSpec.makeMeasureSpec(height, MeasureSpec.EXACTLY)
+      )
+      
+      // Restore text - this triggers complete rebuild with new font metrics
+      setText(currentText)
+      
+      // Reapply all character backgrounds with new font metrics
       applyCharacterBackgrounds()
+      
+      // Restore cursor position
+      val safePosition = currentSelection.coerceIn(0, currentText.length)
+      setSelection(safePosition)
+      
+      isUpdatingText = false
+      
+      // Force complete layout recalculation
       requestLayout()
       invalidate()
     }

package/ios/HighlightTextView.mm

@@ -530,13 +530,27 @@ Class<RCTComponentViewProtocol> HighlightTextViewCls(void)
     
     _textView.font = newFont;
     
-    // Force layout manager to invalidate and recalculate layout
-    [_layoutManager invalidateLayoutForCharacterRange:NSMakeRange(0, _textView.textStorage.length) actualCharacterRange:NULL];
-    [_layoutManager invalidateDisplayForCharacterRange:NSMakeRange(0, _textView.textStorage.length)];
+    // Save current text to force complete rebuild
+    NSString *currentText = [_textView.text copy];
     
-    // Reapply character backgrounds with new font metrics
+    // Clear text storage to force complete recalculation
+    [_textView.textStorage beginEditing];
+    [_textView.textStorage replaceCharactersInRange:NSMakeRange(0, _textView.textStorage.length) withString:@""];
+    [_textView.textStorage endEditing];
+    
+    // Force layout manager to invalidate everything
+    [_layoutManager invalidateLayoutForCharacterRange:NSMakeRange(0, 0) actualCharacterRange:NULL];
+    [_layoutManager invalidateDisplayForCharacterRange:NSMakeRange(0, 0)];
+    
+    // Restore text and rebuild with new font
+    _textView.text = currentText;
+    
+    // Reapply character backgrounds with new font metrics - this rebuilds attributed text
     [self applyCharacterBackgrounds];
     
+    // Force complete layout recalculation
+    [_textView.layoutManager ensureLayoutForTextContainer:_textView.textContainer];
+    
     // Force the text view to redraw
     [_textView setNeedsDisplay];
     [_textView setNeedsLayout];

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "react-native-highlight-text-view",
-  "version": "0.1.17",
+  "version": "0.1.18",
   "description": "A native text input for React Native that supports inline text highlighting",
   "main": "./lib/module/index.js",
   "types": "./lib/typescript/src/index.d.ts",