Text wraparound

[wapfinator]

Hi,

Some messages' body text doesn't wrap around. It goes for miles beyond the right hand margin.  

Trying to figure out why & when this happens, I determined that if a message body text doesn't wrap around when viewed in Yahoo's "view Source" then the same problem can be seen when viewing the message in PGOffline.  (even though Yahoo's viewer DOES wrap it around)

(It's not because of a long URL as sometimes happens in a browser screen)

I hope I'm making sense here!

It would nice to have this fixed or to have a button you can press to "wrap text."

[jeremy]

I meet this problem too. I think it might be a PGO funny. The following message fails to wrap (starting "In a 2343"):

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<td class="msg">&nbsp;</td>
<td class="msg">
<div class="form-rowb12">
<table class="wide" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td>
<div class="msgarea">
<table border=0 cellpadding=2 cellspacing="0"><tr><td>
<pre>This time last year avr-gcc
   &gt;emitted extra RET instructions in some situations. I knew because I was
   &gt;looking at the output. I didn't fret about my project being 55 RET's
   &gt;longer than it needed to be.

In a 2343, I implemented a full upc/ean/upc-e/ean-8 barcode decoder. In order to
fit the data, I had to overlap the input and output buffers, and overlap the
output buffer with stack space.  Code ended up with 7 words free after a lot of
scavenging.

That job, on that chip.. I don't think that's possible in c.

Back to the subject though, any higher level language shields you from the
machine, and so assembler has to be the best language for learning the machine.<br></pre>
</td></tr></table>

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whereas this one wraps OK (starting "Or Forth"):

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<td class="msg">&nbsp;</td>
<td class="msg">
<div class="form-rowb12">

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<div class="msgarea">
<table border=0 cellpadding=2 cellspacing="0"><tr><td>
<pre><a href="/group/AVR-Chat/post?postID=ft3_8G_mc-2zJ3oW-FKX3nFe3TBWLT9TYzNx8Y9s6nzxNqjNGuUWvCGngGuqkl7o9EIUHGhhhl8agLgv">stevech@...</a> wrote:
&gt; Hopefully your language of choice, in an industrial setting, will be
&gt; easy for your successor to deal with (and YOU, 2 years hence), and if
&gt; non-standard, from a supplier who exists at that time! Today, that
&gt; knocks it down to asm and C, eh?
&gt;
&gt;
Or Forth if you take into account that both Stephen at MPE &amp; Beth at Forth Inc
have continuously been producing industrial strength Forth systems since many of
us had a heck of a lot more hair &amp; even many more of the list members weren't
even born...    ;-)

Don<br></pre>

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I can't spot the difference! Jeremy

[Wilson Logan]

Hi Jeremy,

Can you tell me the group name & message numbers of these 2 examples you?ve shown?

Thanks,

Wilson.

[jeremy]

Group: AVR-Chat
Messages: 10342, 10343

[jeremy]

Sorry to bother you, Wilson, but have you got anywhere with this one - it's getting to be quite a pain! Jeremy

[Wilson Logan]

Hi Jeremy,

I'm certain we had this issue before but I can't find any reference to it in the forum.

The good news is it got fixed & the bad news is I can't remember how.

I'll ask Alex if he remembers.

Cheers,

Wilson.

[wapfinator]

Hi Wilson,

Any news on this?

You say it got fixed, does that mean that  it was fixed as part of a patch?  I have 2.5.044 (most recent patch) but the problem still exists.

Or is there a special command one can issue within the program, to take care of it?

Let us know what you find out.

(This should be under "bugs" not "wish list".  I agree that it is quite a pain.)

Debby

[Wilson Logan]

Hi Debbie,

 I'm pretty sure this was fixed in the past by some users who made a change to their own browsers (or some other change external to PGO). I'm pretty sure we didn't change the code. Otherwise I'd have a note of what we did.

The funny thing is that I can't find anything about this when I search the  forum history. I'm sure I even had this problem myself with some of my groups.  

I'll tell you what I do know though.... PGO uses the messages as it gets them from Yahoo verbatim. It doesn't format them in any way. It uses IE5 (or components thereof) to display the messages in the Display pane of PGO.

Here's a question... what does it look like in digest mode? Does the message still not wrap?

Cheers,

Wilson.

 

[wapfinator]

Wilson:

Here's a question... what does it look like in digest mode? Does the message still not wrap?

Yes. Any message not wrapped in regular view, is also not wrapped in digest mode.

Thanks,

Debby

[jeremy]

PGO uses the messages as it gets them from Yahoo verbatim

Hmm ... then Windows XP is not consistent in how it displays the text - see the example I posted on Feb 16!

[Wilson Logan]

Hi All,

I'm a bit snowed at the moment. I will have more time to look at this after Thurs 16th.

Cheers,

Wilson.