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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe
The magnifier currently treats the system focus and the caret as synonymous. This is not accurate:
The system focus refers to the UI control that currently has focus (button, menu item, text control etc)
The caret refers to the text insertion point. While this will be in the system focus, not all controls have a caret, and the caret is a much more specific point than an entire control.
It doesn't give the user the flexibility to choose whether the magnifier follows the caret independently of the system focus. This functionality is offered by Windows Magnifier, (if memory serves) the magnifier in Kompiz, and presumably other magnification solutions.
Describe the solution you'd like
Treat the system focus and caret as separate tracking targets. Expose a further tracking target checkbox for the caret. Refactor the tracking code to track the caret independently of the system focus. Most likely, caret tracking can be gated behind the current control logically having an IP (I.E. it is editable or an ancestor of an editable element).
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe
The magnifier currently treats the system focus and the caret as synonymous. This is not accurate:
This causes two problems:
magnifierdebug logging category once Gate most debug logging calls in the magnifier behind config.conf['debugLog']['magnifier'] #20354 is merged)Describe the solution you'd like
Treat the system focus and caret as separate tracking targets. Expose a further tracking target checkbox for the caret. Refactor the tracking code to track the caret independently of the system focus. Most likely, caret tracking can be gated behind the current control logically having an IP (I.E. it is editable or an ancestor of an editable element).
Describe alternatives you've considered
Don't
Additional context
#20354, #20282