Bug 106076

Summary: Report.ycp should support long messages
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0 Reporter: Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Component: YaST2Assignee: Ladislav Slezák <lslezak>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None    
Version: Beta 2   
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Hardware: Other   
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Description Jiri Srain 2005-08-22 07:07:30 UTC
From yast2-hacker mailing list (probably for after 10.0):  
  
Dne čtvrtek 18 srpen 2005 23:21 Reed Haslam napsal(a):  
> Are there YaST2 guidelines for handling LONG error messages.  
>  
> We have a few that we know run off the screen in text mode installs.  
>  
> Would it not be possible for the low level Report::Error() and similar  
> routines to handle text wrapping and thus allow the caller to simply  
> pass one long string without any "\n"?  
>  
> If that is not going to be done, what are the guidelines for handling  
> long error messages in YaST2?  
  
What is possible is to use a popup including RichText widget, which does line   
breaks automatically. It shouldn't be problem to implement something like   
Report::LongError () and similar which would use RichText instead of labels.   
It also gives scrolling for extra long error messages.
Comment 1 Ladislav Slezák 2005-08-22 14:15:27 UTC
After 10.0
Comment 2 Ladislav Slezák 2005-09-14 06:54:47 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 79161 ***