[bt-devel] 1.6rc1 - personal comments still truncated

[John A. Sullivan III]

On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 22:37 -0500, Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote:
> Troy A. Griffitts wrote:
> > OK, I give... How in the world do you actually edit a personal 
> > commentary entry in Bibletime? :)
> 
> Hi Troy,
> 
> Assuming that you have the personal commentary installed:
> 
> 1. From the Bookshelf navigation window on the left, select
>     Commentaries -> English
> 
> 2. Under 'English' you will find a listing for 'Personal.'
>     This is the personal commentary.
> 
> 3. Right-click 'Personal.'  Select 'Edit this work' ->
>     'Plain text.'  (Or select HTML if you prefer.)
> 
> 4. You're now 'editing' the personal commentary.  Click
>     the disc icon to save.  Use the navigation widgets
>     to select the book/chapter/verse that you would like
>     to comment on.
> 
> 5. If you just want to VIEW the commentary, you would
>     double-click 'Personal' in step 3 above.  You can
>     indeed edit and view at the same time.
> 
> > The bug mentioned below specifically notes that the full text is all 
> > still available in the edit window, but not in the display windows. 
> > This doesn't sound like it would be a problem with storage or retrieval, 
> > but rather with display (as noted in the bug history).
> 
> Well, yes and no.
> 
> It's true that the display window will not dynamically update when the 
> text is edited.  But this isn't what the bug reporter (John) is 
> referring to.  I think he actually means...
> 
> Wait... you may be right.  I'll update the bug report and ask him.
> 
> ...but I *think* what he means is that when you save your changes in the 
> edit window, and then refresh the display window (e.g. by changing the 
> key and then changing it back), the comments are truncated.  I.e. some 
> of the comments make it to the database and some do not.
> 
> But like I said, you might be right about this.
> 
<snip>
Hello, all and thanks for the attention being paid to this issue. Those
are two separate bugs.  There is an open bug where edits to existing
comments are not saved on 64 bit systems.  That is a different problem.

The problem here is simply truncation in display.  The long comment does
exist in the database and is viewable in the edit window.  However, the
display window truncates the comment.  The sample comment I submitted
was entered months ago but still does not display fully - John
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