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request: show multiline comments in scrollable textarea #2470

Open milahu opened 4 years ago

milahu commented 4 years ago

please make deadbeef look more like VLC in this detail VLC > tools > media info

vlc media info Screenshot_2020-10-22_20-19-22

the "comment" field in metadata is often a multiline text for example to store a tracklist or lyrics but currently its shown as single line input field and only the first line is visible

deadbeef track props Screenshot_2020-10-22_20-26-50

where?

screenshots show metadata of this youtube video downloaded with youtube-dl

env: Deadbeef 44fc131 on linux

Oleksiy-Yakovenko commented 3 years ago

Multiline comments used to work nicely about 5 years ago, just like you want, but at some point the GTK devs broke or removed the only available mechanism for such feature, so I had to convert the UI code to only use single line rows, to make it usable at all, since it ended up in a completely broken state. So as much as I would like to have this, just like you do, such feature would require a complete rewrite of a fairly complex standard UI component GtkTreeView, which I don't want to do. (on the bright side, I might implement this on mac at some point, since I don't have to deal with GTK limitations there)

luzpaz commented 1 year ago

Any traction on this ?