Description Claudio Guglielmo 2011-06-20 08:29:23 EDT

Build Identifier: 3.8.0

If MaxLength is set on a string field and a text whose length exceeds that value is pasted from the clipboard the text will automatically be shorted without informing the user.

It would be good to either inform the user with a message box saying the text was shorted or to invalidate the value so that the user can correct it by himself.
In my opinion the invalidation would be better but only if validateOnAnyKey is set to true otherwise the user does not know when the text is short enough. Because of this I would prefer the solution with the message box.

BTW: At the moment a project can achieve this by either overriding execParseValue of a StringField like this:

public String execParseValue(String text) throws ProcessingException {
            if (StringUtility.hasText(text) && text.length() > getMaxLength()) {
              MessageBox.showOkMessage(null, null, "The inserted text is too long for this field and has therefore been truncated."));
            }
            return super.execParseValue(text);
          }

Or (more general) by creating a custom SwtScoutStringField with a ModifyListener.

Reproducible: Always