ARACHNE TODOLIST  - PROPOSED SOFTWARE CHANGE DETAILS
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Item numbers refer to the 2DoList table.


ITEM_72 Line-wrap for text input boxes

I have encountered the following two problems with Arachne 1.89:

It seems that in text input boxes, if there is already a default text
present that includes very long lines, Arachne truncates these lines.
I have seen this problem with the PmWiki system of Club DR-DOS on 
the DR-DOS history page
http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0503736/php/drdoswiki/pmwiki.php/Main/History
when trying to edit the text using the "Edit Page" function at the top
of the page; both the "Matthias Paul" and "Mr.M" stories that consist of
very long lines are truncated and the rest is lost when one writes back
the changes.

Mozilla (and probably also other browsers) handle this by
"soft-wrapping" (without actually inserting CRs) text into the next line
if the end of the current line has been reached, similar to what Arachne
uses when composing emails. This happens automatically and is probably
the reason why these long lines exist.

Also, I have noticed that *very bad* things can happen if one enters
text on a line that exceeds the invisible limit that Arachne imposes on
the maximum length of a line.

So I hereby propose the following two fixes/enhancements:

1. Add a soft-wrap function for multi-line text input fields to Arachne
that works like the one in Mozilla, thereby preserving long lines, and
2. place additional checks to safeguard against the user typing too long
lines - even if soft-wrap is working, this could still happen by
entering a single very long word.

Regards,

Udo