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bug #20564: GUI crashes when attempting to enter value labels for long string variables

Submitter:  John Darrington <jmd>
Submitted:  Tue 24 Jul 2007 01:44:04 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  Graphical User Interface Severity:  5 - Average
Status:  Fixed Assigned to:  None
Open/Closed:  Closed Release:  None
Effort:  0.00
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Wed 25 Jul 2007 01:37:09 AM UTC, comment #4: 

Fixed this bug by disabling the buttons, as suggested. So closing this bug. I'm opening a wishlist bug requesting that long strings support value labels.

John Darrington <jmd>
Group administrator
Tue 24 Jul 2007 02:40:50 AM UTC, comment #3: 

Here's what I'm planning to say about this issue in the upcoming developer's reference:

  Numeric and short string sets of value labels may contain any number
  of entries.  Long string sets of value labels may not contain any
value labels at all, due to a corresponding restriction in SPSS.    In
  PSPP we could easily eliminate this restriction, but doing so would
  also require us to extend the system file format in an incompatible
  way, which we consider a bad tradeoff.

Disagreement welcome.

Ben Pfaff <blp>
Group administrator
Tue 24 Jul 2007 02:08:47 AM UTC, comment #2: 

Yes.  At some point in the future I think we could allow long strings to take value labels, but it would require a bit of thought.

John Darrington <jmd>
Group administrator
Tue 24 Jul 2007 02:03:23 AM UTC, comment #1: 

I note that long string variables are not allowed to have value labels, so that the correct solution is probably to disable the ability to enter value labels for such variables.

Ben Pfaff <blp>
Group administrator
Tue 24 Jul 2007 01:44:04 AM UTC, original submission:  

The GUI crashes when attempting to enter value labels for string variables which have a width greater than 8.

John Darrington <jmd>
Group administrator

 

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