MC2.4.2 beta 1 truncated text

[andu]

Geoff Canyon wrote:
> 
> At 12:10 PM +0100 2/14/02, eugen helbling wrote:
> >> > When the a field has a vertical grid, text is now truncated within a
> >> > "cell" rather than being pushed off to the next tab stop location.
> >
> >just tried to setup a textfield to check this new behavior but do not see
> >any changes to the last version.
> >Which properties do I have to set?
> 
> You have to set the tabStops. The default won't truncate.
> 
> I'd like to suggest that the truncation behavior be optional. Perhaps a property of the field, tabStopsTruncate, or tabStopsTruncation.
> 
> Also, anyone interested in this feature should take a look at text selection when text is >truncated. There are some tricky UI decisions that need to be made regarding how text that is >truncated reacts to being selected, and it would be good to get this right from the beginning.

My comment is that when text is truncated it should have a termination
to indicate that (...) or some flag somewhere so that we can, say,
replace the last visible character with ... or an image; imagine having
2 words in a cell and the text truncated so that only the first word is
visible, there's a good chance to not know of the existence of the
second one.
Also now I see the need for being able to select only one cell in list
mode as an option.

> 
> regards,
> 
> Geoff
> 
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