Display Dialog Truncation Bug in OS -Please Help, Chris N.
Display Dialog Truncation Bug in OS -Please Help, Chris N.
- Subject: Display Dialog Truncation Bug in OS -Please Help, Chris N.
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 11:44:53 -0800
I would really appreciate some guidelines from Chris Nebel, if that's
possible. I realize that this truncation bug is probably temporary and will
hopefully be fixed soon, but it's driving me batty because I don't know how
to avoid it.
When my dialog texts include variables representing choices made by the
user, I have no way of predicting when the last line or two of text is going
to be removed. I can test all my dialogs over and over, but when a
different-length word is used in a variable it screws it up again. This is
not good. As I pointed out once, it is even affected by whether there is an
icon on the dialog although not, I think, by which dialog it is. It is
evidently affected by the width of the dialog, and where lines wrap (which
may also in turn be affected by the length of the longest button text as to
how wide the dialog window is.)
Is there any sort of formula I can use for knowing when to add a space to
the last line before a double-carriage return? I have a routine based on the
255-character limit for knowing when to Continue to a second dialog. I'd add
another one for knowing when to add spaces to penultimate paragraphs if this
were calculable.
Any guidance available? I would be very appreciative.
--
Paul Berkowitz