Subsurface-mobile 858 - crashes

Dirk Hohndel dirk at hohndel.org
Tue Feb 16 21:55:13 PST 2016


On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 10:08:16AM +0200, Willem Ferguson wrote:
> On 15/02/2016 01:41, Dirk Hohndel wrote:
> >
> >>On Feb 14, 2016, at 12:58 PM, Willem Ferguson <willemferguson at zoology.up.ac.za> wrote:
> >>
> >
> >>2) I have some dives with lots of notes. The notes appear to be cut off after an & character in the text of the notes: inconvenient.
> >Hmm - I wonder if this is a quoting issue. Somehow the QML code thinks this is HTML and the '&' confuses it and it stops parsing? Can you replace the '&' with '&'?
> >
> >/D
> 
> Yes  it is quoting issue. Inserting the HTML & solves the problem, but
> for the non-html-savvy user this should not be. The notes text box should be
> just that and it should take the full set of text characters including
> :;"'&*%#, otherwise it produces unpredictable results in rendering the
> notes.

I asked you to test this so I'd have a working hypothesis what's going
wrong - not to establish an FAQ answer or "solution" for other people
running into this :-)

Now we need to figure out how to fix this.

/D


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