Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 34522
When self defined help text of text field is too long -> no linebreak
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:32:22 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
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
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 ....
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!
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 ....
To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on my owner to the owner "requirements".