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

Submitted by:  John Darrington <jmd>
Submitted on:  Tue 24 Jul 2007 01:44:04 AM UTC  
 
Category: Graphical User InterfaceSeverity: 5 - Average
Status: FixedAssigned to: None
Open/Closed: ClosedRelease: 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>
Project 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>
Project 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>
Project 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>
Project 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>
Project Administrator

 

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