While working on a a very long action, while the kindly help of user DetlevD, I've noticed that I only see it to some point. I've made some changes and it seems that in action window [within the action groups window] there are displayed only around 240+ characters, including the kind of action
Do you speak about the selection list menu for the single steps within one action group, ...
where each line offers a preview about the action type and tag-field and formatstring value?
Hmm, I have counted a maximal length of 259 characters within one menu entry.
For a preview this seems to be enough.
While in the "Format Value" dialog the edit field for the formatstring accepts 30.000 characters.
This seems to be enough.
You are joking?
76 * 3 characters are 228 characters, there should be empty room until 259 in the actions-list menu's preview, resp. the menu entry has been filled already with the action's name and the tag-fields's name.
Note:
One menu's list item carries just an overview or preview about informations within the underlying action, ... i. e. the type of action, the target tag-field, and some other relevant content.
This preview is truncated at a reasonable length (about three times screen horizontal width, scrollable).
If you need to view all parameters of one menu entry in full scope, ...
then you have to open the related edit dialog of the selected action.
I am willing to accept, that you both are absolutely right
As long as you are willing to concur with me, that in such long case like these there should be some kind of indicator, telling the user [without clicking and going further down the software windows] about the existence additional content [that there are more signs after the last displayed]
A simple
74|75|76 ...
would do the trick; or even better with the addition of some text like
74|75|76 ... CLICK EDIT TO SEE MORE