Issue 34522

Summary: When self defined help text of text field is too long -> no linebreak
Product: Base Reporter: helgekraak <helge.kraak>
Component: codeAssignee: AOO issues mailing list <issues>
Status: CONFIRMED --- QA Contact:
Severity: Trivial    
Priority: P3 CC: issues
Version: OOo 1.1.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows 2000   
Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT Latest Confirmation in: ---
Developer Difficulty: ---

Description helgekraak 2004-09-22 23:14:05 UTC 
When you assign a help text to a text field (and all other types probably too)
and your text exceeds the screen width when you move your mouse over the text
fielf, the text is not beeing divided into two lines. Instead you can't see the
rest of the text.

Regards
Helge Kraak
Comment 1 marc.neumann 2004-09-23 09:39:27 UTC 
Hi,

reassign to User Experience for evaluating.

May be there should be also a possibility to insert a linebreak manuall. f.e.
via "\n"

Bye Marc
Comment 2 Frank Schönheit 2004-09-29 12:02:17 UTC 
Helge, would Marc's suggestion solve your problem? I.e., if you enter help text
which contains \n, then this would be translated into an explicit line break.
Such a fix could probably be easily done, without waiting two more years or
longer for OOo 3.0 ....
Comment 3 helgekraak 2004-09-29 14:12:39 UTC 
I like Marc's suggestion with the manual linebreak. I think it's a great idea,
also much better than just an automatic linebreak on what I put my first thought
when I experienced this problem. Thanks a lot for fast response!
Comment 4 Frank Schönheit 2004-09-29 16:16:48 UTC 
Hmm. I stepped a little bit into the code, and played with it. It seems that
such a change is not as easy as I thought. Unfortunately, the tooltips in the
underlaying graphics system layer (VCL) are not prepared for wordbreaks, at
least not in the "simple mode", but only for tooltips which you get pressing
Shift-F1.
So, this definately is nothing I can fix within half an hour :( - which sadly
means it has to reside with the user experience team for feature evaluation ....
Comment 5 bettina.haberer 2010-05-21 14:42:18 UTC 
To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on
my owner to the owner "requirements".