Subject: Re: Field bugs was Re: commit: undebugged Lists and Fields.
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Wed Nov 08 2000 - 20:28:44 CST
On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Sam TH wrote:
>
> The date&time field segfaults if you undo the insert. This is a
> showstopper.
>
Yuck! Thanks for the info. I'll work on this.
> >
> > To help people understand the issues, the bugs Sam reports occur
> > when inserting PieceTable fields into blank documents. There are
> > fewer issues when they're inserted into documents already containing text.
> >
> > I think the cursor on next line bug can be fixed by inserting an invisible
> > run at the end of every paragraph. We can also use this run to finish the
> > show paragraphs feature.
>
> One more issue - I'm not sure I like the solution you have to putting
> breaks in <c> sections. Personally, I think it would be better to
> have <field ...><c>...</c><br/><c>...</c></field> than what we currently
> have. However, if there are good reasons for this change, I am open
> to them.
Hmm we'd better check that on importing all the text inside the field ends
up inside the one field frag. I guess exporting like that will cause the
text to be inserted into a number of spans. Otherwise I have no
objections. Dom had to fiddle with the importer to get it to read the
<br/> inside the <field>. I know little about xml so I'll this to you
Sam.
Cheers
Martin
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