Changeset 2684

Timestamp:

2001-08-02T12:13:43+12:00 (23 years ago)

Author:

jrm21

Message:

attempt to gracefully add rows to the table if the text content of the HList
is too long.

File:

• trunk/gsdl/src/recpt/hlistbrowserclass.cpp (modified) (2 diffs)

trunk/gsdl/src/recpt/hlistbrowserclass.cpp

@@ -118 +118 @@
 
   text_t icon, link;
+  int num_chars=0; // see note below - jrm21
   while (tsibling != esibling) {
 
     bool highlight = false;
-    textout << "<td>";
     text_t &doctype = (*tsibling).metadata["doctype"].values[0];
 
@@ -135 +135 @@
     }
 
-    textout << outconvert << disp 
-        << get_formatted_string (collection, collectproto,
-                     *tsibling, disp, formatlistptr, link, icon, highlight,
-                     logout);
+    text_t fmt_str=get_formatted_string (collection, collectproto,
+                      *tsibling, disp, formatlistptr,
+                      link, icon, highlight, logout);
 
-    textout << "</td>\n";
+    /* this is awful. Someone please come up with a better way to prevent
+       the table of contents when browsing metadata from becoming too wide.
+       This is an attempt to add new rows when the number of characters in
+       the current row becomes too high. It doesn't know about macros in the
+       string, though... -- jrm21 */
+
+    char *tmp_str=fmt_str.getcstr();
+    char *end_str=tmp_str+strlen(tmp_str);
+    while (tmp_str<end_str) {
+      if (*tmp_str=='<') {    // for html tags
+    while (*tmp_str!='>') tmp_str++; 
+      } else if (*tmp_str=='&') { // for html entities
+    while (*tmp_str!=';') tmp_str++; 
+    num_chars++;
+      } else num_chars++;
+      tmp_str++;
+    }
+
+    if (num_chars>100) { // this is fairly arbitrary...
+      textout << "</tr>\n<tr>";
+      num_chars=0;
+    }
+
+    textout << "<td>" << outconvert << disp << fmt_str << "</td>\n";
     tsibling ++;
   }