[Wesnoth-dev] Font: Use wrapping or ellipsis?

[Bram Ridder]

Greatings co-developers,

I'm currently working on the editor and I'm trying to fix bug  #11965 
<http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/index.php?func=detailitem&item_id=11965> 
and  #11967 
<http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/index.php?func=detailitem&item_id=11965>, 
which state the terrain string isn't displayed as a whole in the right 
buttom part of the editor screen. A part of this issue comes from the 
fact that there is to little space to draw the terrain strings in that 
space, that's solveable. But an other part of the problem is that the 
font class cuts a string of and uses a ellipisis as default for reports. 
So even if I extend the space to draw the tile strings, so a tile string 
can be displayed on 2 - 3 lines it still doesn't work and the string is 
simply cut of and ends with "...".

I've created a temporaty fix in the font class that wraps the word 
before applying the ellipsis, but this is only a hack to show that it 
works. My suggestion is to include two tags to be put in the 
/data/theme/editor.cgf file to enable / disable word wrapping. So the 
selected_terrain would look like this to enable word wrapping with a 
maximum of 3 lines per string:

[selected_terrain]
font_size=12
enable_wrap=true
wrap_lines=3
rect=900,710,1024,40
xanchor=right
yanchor=bottom
[/selected_terrain]

This way we're able to enable word wrapping for some parts of the editor 
/ game and leave the rest as it was (default value for enable_wrap is 
false).

Any thought on this subject would be nice. If I've overlooked something 
please let me know, thanks in advance!

- Bram