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bug #54069: GUI Command windows does not respect column width

Submitter:  Armin Müller <arm_in>
Submitted:  Wed 06 Jun 2018 09:40:38 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  GUI Severity:  3 - Normal
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  Other
Status:  None Assigned to:  None
Originator Name:  Open/Closed:  * Open
Release:  * 4.4.0 Operating System:  * Microsoft Windows
Fixed Release:  None Planned Release:  None
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Wed 06 Jun 2018 07:21:43 PM UTC, comment #1: 

On linux Mint (Cinnamon) the "column split" seems to work pretty well.  There is some feedback from the GUI's available real estate to the core worker process layout mechanism (i.e., I shrink the GUI width and the number of columns adjusts to smaller).  However, if I display something like rand(2,15), then resize the GUI width to smaller, the previously displayed items are off screen and there is no scroll bar that appears.  That's kind of bad, but tolerable because one can just redisplay the results and it will reformat accordingly.

In your case with Windows, apparently it isn't as nice.  There doesn't appear to be any feedback of the available width so the core formatting mechanism is choosing some default.  Either that, or Windows isn't properly reporting the available pixel width (that would be the better of the two alternatives).  This is probably programmed in Qt though, so may be the window manager's limitation meaning there's little that could be done.

Dan Sebald <sebald>
Wed 06 Jun 2018 09:40:38 AM UTC, original submission:  

When running code that will print results on the GUI command window, the output is wrapped with the wrong column width.

Example:


clear; close all; clc
rand(1, 10)


Screenshot attached.

Apparently, there is room for 8 columns of numbers. The 9th number is printed off-screen. A horizontal scrollbar is added. I find this output hard to read. Especially, it is not possible to read at a glance.

Octave CLI as well as Matlab will wrap aroud with the correct number of columns available. All text is visible without scrolling.

Armin Müller <arm_in>

 

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file #44308:  command_window_width.png added by arm_in (30KiB - image/png)

 

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