From 9d54a4641b5bc7c16af2098d479ae992256a0039 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jamesmaa <jmaa@berkeley.edu>
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2024 10:50:31 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Avoid popup flickering

---
 ext/js/language/text-scanner.js | 9 +++++----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ext/js/language/text-scanner.js b/ext/js/language/text-scanner.js
index e70de8fc00..a072342737 100644
--- a/ext/js/language/text-scanner.js
+++ b/ext/js/language/text-scanner.js
@@ -469,6 +469,11 @@ export class TextScanner extends EventDispatcher {
                 null
             );
 
+            if (this._scanResolution === 'word') {
+                // Move the start offset to the beginning of the word
+                textSource.setStartOffset(this._scanLength, this._layoutAwareScan, true);
+            }
+
             if (this._textSourceCurrent !== null && this._textSourceCurrent.hasSameStart(textSource)) {
                 return;
             }
@@ -484,10 +489,6 @@ export class TextScanner extends EventDispatcher {
             let sentence = null;
             /** @type {'terms'|'kanji'} */
             let type = 'terms';
-            if (this._scanResolution === 'word') {
-                // Move the start offset to the beginning of the word
-                textSource.setStartOffset(this._scanLength, this._layoutAwareScan, true);
-            }
             const result = await this._findDictionaryEntries(textSource, searchTerms, searchKanji, optionsContext);
             if (result !== null) {
                 ({dictionaryEntries, sentence, type} = result);