ANN: Answer Dialog Patch Available

Chipp Walters chipp at chipp.com
Thu Dec 1 00:27:50 EST 2005



Richard Gaskin wrote:
> Sarah Reichelt wrote:
> 
>> I haven't downloaded your patch yet to have a look, but is it still 
>> necessary?
>> RunRev changed things in 2.6.0 so that the answer text wrapped, and
>> this caused some problems with cut-off text. However as far as I can
>> see, this was fixed in version 2.6.1
>>
>> Are there still problems that I haven't encountered yet?
> 

> However, the Rev text engine still does soft wraps on word breaks only, 
> so it's possible to come up with long single-word strings that will 
> evidence this in the answer dialog -- for example:
> 
> answer 
> "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvqxyza1b1c1d1e1f1g1h1i1j1k1l1m1n1o1p1q1r1s1t1u1v1w1x1y1z1" 

Sarah,

It also exhibits itself using large text sizes in the answer dialog via 
htmltext.

And, pathnames are especially hard to render in the unpatched Answer dialog.




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