Bug 341084

Description Zeb Ford-Reitz 2011-03-28 07:08:46 EDT

While entering text into a Property Value cell editor, I went over the maximum number of characters allowed in this field (currently 255). A dialog appeared informing me of this, and the Parameter Value was applied. When I activated the cell editor again in order to resolve the issue, the character limit dialog appeared again. When I closed the dialog, the contents of the cell editor were cleared. I was provided with no opportunity to modify the existing text, which would then be completely gone unless I canceled the cell editor by pressing Escape or reverted the editor.

I would expect that the display of the character limit dialog does not deactivate my active cell editor, automatically applying my obviously unfinished changes. Instead, I would like the cell editor to be active after closing the dialog. I would expect the character that "caused" the dialog to not be entered.

In the same vein, I would expect that activation of the cell editor does not clear the editor. Perhaps it would be possible to present the contents as-is, allowing the user to resolve the issue before deactivating the editor in order to apply the changes. Barring that, perhaps the contents could be truncated to the maximum length.