A large Keksi form text field shrinks unexpectedly

Hello,

I am new to Keksi.
I managed to build a Keksi database and to make a form where
I can edit
the data of one table. 
This worked well until I endeavoured to append more data
from an OO.o
Base to this table. I managed appending the records,
reimported the
tbXYZ.csv dat and can view it perfectly as a Keksi table.
But in the
Keksi form now one field called 'definition' is shown shrunk
in its
hight to the minimum so that I can read only one line of
text in it. But
when I view the old (non appended) table, this definition
field is 406
pixels high.
The field named 'definition' has the following properties:
Name                    Value
Name                    definition
Geometry                0,120 770x406
X                       0
Y                       120
Width                   770
Height                  406
Größen-Regelung         Bevorzugt/Bevorzugt
Waagr.Größentyp         Bevorzugt
Senkr.Größentyp         Bevorzugt
Waagr.Streckung         0
Senkr.Streckung         0
Vordergrundfarbe        black
Hintergrundfarbe        white
Font                    DejaVu Sans 8
Titel                   (empty)
Aktivierungs-Regelung   Tabulator/Klick
Textfarbe der Beschrift black
Beschriftungshintergrund
Farbe                   grey    
Automatische Beschrift  Yes
Nur Lesen               No
Beschriftungsposition   Keine Beschriftung
Waager.Ausrichtung      Automatisch
Senkr. Ausrichtung      Zentriert
Zeilenumbruch           Nein
clickMessage            (empty)
Echo-Modus              Normal
Frame                   yes
Rahmenschattierung      eingesunken
Rahmenform              Textfeld
frame width             2
Rand                    0
Mittlere Rahmenbreite   0
Text                    (empty)

How can I display the 'definition' contents of my second
(appended)
table in a 406 pixels high field also? 

Kind regard,

Detlef Lechner

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Detlef Lechner said the following, On 2007-08-22 09:16:
> Hello,
> 
> I am new to Keksi.
> I managed to build a Keksi database and to make a form
where I can edit
> the data of one table. 
> This worked well until I endeavoured to append more
data from an OO.o
> Base to this table. I managed appending the records,
reimported the
> tbXYZ.csv dat and can view it perfectly as a Keksi
table. But in the
> Keksi form now one field called 'definition' is shown
shrunk in its
> hight to the minimum so that I can read only one line
of text in it. But
> when I view the old (non appended) table, this
definition field is 406
> pixels high.

A small (jpg) screenshot could help...

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Hello Jaroslaw,

Am Mittwoch, den 22.08.2007, 10:52 +0200 schrieb Jarosław
Staniek:

> A small (jpg) screenshot could help...

See
http://c
ommunity.webshots.com/user/bullgard4
I hope this can be read, as I am using the facilities of
webshots.com
for the first time.

Regards
Detlef Lechner  

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Detlef Lechner pisze:

> Am Donnerstag, den 23.08.2007, 14:19 +0200 schrieb
Jarosław Staniek:
> 
>> Could you please publish the bitmap again as it
looks corrupted, or use 
>> http://imageshack.us/?
> 
> This site appears not to be functional.
> 
> http://bayimg.com/BagboaA
Be shows my Kexi form displaying correctly a
> table which I imported from my Access database. 
> http://bayimg.com/bAGbNaa
be shows my Kexi form displaying incorrectly
> the same table but which was exported as a csv file,
appended by about
> 3000 records and reimported to the same Kexi project.
The difference
> being the 'definition' field type is not 'large text'
but 'text'.

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

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.

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

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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

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