Some tooltips may need line breaks #1063

Some tooltips in Settings > Options > Main are too long and cannot display all the text, at least when the screen resolution is 1024*768 (which I use on a good old 4/3 cathodic display). The screenshot should give an idea, and this problem also occurs in English, particularly with the tooltips of "Minimize on close" and "Pay transaction fee" options. Should \n strings be inserted there? (Bitcoin 0.6.0 running on Ubuntu 10.04)

Also, when you click Settings > Options > Display, "Display addresses in transaction list" doesn't have a keyboard shortcut. As all other strings have one, I was wondering whether this one was forgotten (this remark is really secondary, IMHO it didn't make sense to file a separate bug for it).

1. I think it's a pity that Qt doesn't break off long tooltip messages itself. How the hell are we (and translators) supposed to know how wide text gets rendered and what will, and will not run off the screen.

2. Yes, that was forgotten when it was added.

The recommended way to fix this appears to be to add <qt/> in front of the message to make sure Qt interprets it as rich text instead of plaintext, and can apply its own formatting algorithm. It would be preferable to do this automatically for all tooltips. I'd loathe having to track this individually for every translated message in every language.

Edit: Looking at the Qt source, I think this could be implemented globally by listening for QEvent::ToolTipChange events, then rewriting the messages to prefix <qt/> if it is not yet rich text. See also:

• http://doc.trolltech.com/4.7/qt.html#mightBeRichText
• http://doc.trolltech.com/4.7/eventsandfilters.html

@laanwj I think it could also be done by replacing \n with a HTML-br as this is what's done for the lock symbol in the client, if the wallet is encrypted and / or unlocked ... that tooltip seems to be rich text already, right? I think there are only 2-4 places at all, where HTML-tags are used directly in the strings. Your idea seems cleaner, so we would only have to remove the current br-Tags (the ones for bold text should remain).

Yes, you are right, the programmatically generated tooltips will also have to be generated as rich text. \n will not do anything for formatting in rich text messages. If custom line breaks are desired, <br> should be used.

<quote>then rewriting the tooltips to prefix <qt/> if it is not yet rich text.</quote> You sure that is works? On my side <qt/> is displayed as plain text and there are no line breaks, so apparently the content of the tool tip is considered as plain text rather than rich text. Here's an example with revision 5fa8396 on Ubuntu 10.04.4 with GNOME 2.30:

Works fine for me.

What version of Qt?

On 29/06/12 20:30, Wladimir J. van der Laan wrote:

Works fine for me.

What version of Qt?

Help > About Qt says "This program uses Qt version 4.6.2."

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@cardpuncher Can you upgrade, that's a rather old version ... we currently compile Bitcoin-Qt with 4.7.4 and available is 4.8.2.

Yep, that's the cause, you can compile bitcoin-qt with Qt<4.7 but then you have some slight quirks such as missing placeholder text and, it seems, this.

Btw the message says "Bitcon network"... lol that's one typo

That typo is awesome ^^.

Edit: #1537