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Bug 366543

Summary:

[Progress] Text in progress dialog is truncated even if progress dialog has plenty of space

Product:

[Eclipse Project] Platform

Reporter:

Christophe Cornu <christophe.cornu+eclipse>

Component:

Assignee:

Platform UI Triaged <platform-ui-triaged>

Status:

CLOSED WONTFIX

QA Contact:

Severity:

minor

Priority:

CC:

dj.houghton, ob1.eclipse, remy.suen

Version:

3.8

Target Milestone:

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Hardware:

OS:

Windows XP

Whiteboard:

stalebug

Attachments:

Description	Flags
truncated message in progress dialog	none

Description Christophe Cornu

2011-12-13 09:18:06 EST

Build Identifier: 

Found in Eclipse 3.5.2 but John Arthorne also found it in the latest.

@johna from your days on IProgressMonitor, do you know if the Eclipse progress dialog takes the liberty to truncate messages? "Block...g for background work to complete" is strangely truncated.

RTC probably can't do anything aside of reporting this to Eclipse after we confirm we've got nothing to do with this...

3. John Arthorne, Dec 7, 2011, 12:54 PM
Yes it does. org.eclipse.ui.internal.progress.ProgressInfoItem#setMainText does:

        progressLabel
                .setText(Dialog.shortenText(getMainTitle(), progressLabel));

I suggest filing this against Eclipse.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
See screenshot.
Note that now most users have wide 16/9 screens, it's best to avoid hardcoded truncated strings if possible. Instead imagine we have a JFace Text widget that uses the SWT text or styled text widget and automatically truncates its content to make it fit in one line based on its current width... And the tooltip on that widget would give the full non truncated text to users, and screen readers would get the full string too.

Comment 1 Christophe Cornu

2011-12-13 09:18:59 EST

Created attachment 208312 [details]
truncated message in progress dialog

Comment 2 Christophe Cornu

2011-12-13 09:19:41 EST

Backlink to RTC bug: https://jazz.net/jazz/resource/itemName/com.ibm.team.workitem.WorkItem/178293

Comment 3 Eric Moffatt

2012-02-08 16:26:53 EST

Just talked with Christophe and he's OK with deferring this to post-4.2...

I'll put it into M7 for now until a 4.3 bucket shows up so it won't just go back into the general pool.

Comment 4 Christophe Cornu

2012-03-21 13:25:51 EDT

Adding another related backlink:
https://jazz.net/jazz/resource/itemName/com.ibm.team.workitem.WorkItem/202848

Comment 5 DJ Houghton

2013-08-15 09:55:43 EDT

Also a problem with: 
Version: 3.8.2
Build id: M20130131-0800

Comment 6 Eclipse Genie

2020-01-09 15:38:39 EST

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.

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