[Kexi] A large Kexi form text field shrinks unexpectedly

[Detlef Lechner]

Hello Jaroslaw,

Am Freitag, den 24.08.2007, 09:08 +0200 schrieb Jarosław Staniek:

> Detlef, thanks for your explanation. It's clear now that you have used
> Auto 
> Field widget for the 'Definition' data. 

Yes.

> One thing what is hidden until Kexi 2, 
> because of internal reasons, is "Widget Type" property of the
> AutoField. In 
> Kexi 2 you could just change this type by hand, overriding "text" type
> of the table field.
> Your case is pretty important, so may I ask you to file an "Unhide 
> "widgetType" property for Auto Field form widget" wish in
> bugs.kde.org?

I have done so: Bug #149195.

> In Kexi 1 for this single field you can just use "Text editor" widget
> instead 
> of Auto Field. you can add a label widget by hand as well, and the
> result will 
> mostly identical as before, just the Text Editor will display
> multiline text 
> no matter what variant of the text is declared in the table field's
> design.

I have done so and it works! Thank you very much for advising.

> Another thing is that later, CSV import should alow for fine-tuning of
> column' 
> data types to the extreme, just as in table designer.

What do you mean by 'later'?
At the moment I seem to have no need for that.

Thank you again for your kind help.

Detlef