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Text Entry Box Overflow

DM Mark

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I noticed this happening tonight when I was testing text box sized. I was trying to find more logger info and in an old vid it said there was a 250 character limit on entries but I saw something more recent saying 2500.
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In any case both seem to overflow the boundaries of the textbox. The first entry is 249 the second 2502

Is anyone else seeing this?

Thanks
 
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ELF

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Doing some torture testing? :)

Yeah, extreme word lengths could be handled more gracefully, even if that is quite a corner case and a just a cosmetic issue. Still, bug report filled, thanks for pointing this out!

2500 characters should be the current maximum size for a log entry.
 

DM Mark

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Well yes and no lol,

I have some heavily formatted entry styles I like and I am going to be bulk uploading, so I was concerned about the correct character count as I didn't want to waste my characters on too much pretty stuff . :p
 

Ackinty

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Just add some spaces (blank characters) in your test, and it should be ok. Even in your heavily formated entry, you should not have more-than-200-character's word. I'm not english native, so I don't know the existing most long english word, but in french it's 26 characters, there's a gap until 200 !!

That should not be something very difficult to fix, but coding all the possible cases would be a burden and takes time that may be passed on some new features. So that's a good practice to cover "just" most-used cases, to be pragmatic. You know the Pareto Law, 20% effort covers 80% of problems :)
 

DM Mark

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Just add some spaces (blank characters) in your test, and it should be ok. Even in your heavily formated entry, you should not have more-than-200-character's word. I'm not english native, so I don't know the existing most long english word, but in french it's 26 characters, there's a gap until 200 !!

That should not be something very difficult to fix, but coding all the possible cases would be a burden and takes time that may be passed on some new features. So that's a good practice to cover "just" most-used cases, to be pragmatic. You know the Pareto Law, 20% effort covers 80% of problems :)


Thanks for reply Akinty. The only way to add blanks in .json that I can see is with specific tags which is a pain in the neck to add numerous. I am bulk uploading data rather than using the interface so that complicates things. From what I can see the interface strips blanks as well.

The character limit is 2500 from my tests which ELF has confirmed above. I can add a \n at the boundary where the text wraps but if I do I will have to go back and correct all my entries when the bug is corrected. It may be a necessary evil at this point though.

I do suspect this bug is a quick fix but I know there are a lot of things coming for the logger so I am not sure what kind of priority this will get.
 

JochenL

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OK, now I am stumped. You cannot add blanks like a space character? This should not be prohibited in JSON. Or do you have space characters in your text and it still does not break?

Can you send me a sample JSON to jochen@campaign-logger.com?
 

DM Mark

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Also Could a moderator move this thread to support?

I wasn't sure it was a bug immediately but it should now be posted there.

Thanks!
 

JochenL

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DM Mark

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OK, now I am stumped. You cannot add blanks like a space character? This should not be prohibited in JSON. Or do you have space characters in your text and it still does not break?

Can you send me a sample JSON to jochen@campaign-logger.com?

Hello Jochen! Sorry I mispoke , I meant HTML. You can add blanks in a String in the .json. Adding a bunch of blanks though would be a bigger problem than a single \n as it would take more time to remove later.
 

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