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GPSBabel: convert, manipulate, and transfer data from GPS programs or GPS receivers. Open Source and supported on MacOS, Windows, Linux, and more. Pointy clicky GUI or a command line version...
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truncation can compromise the meaning of help strings #1181

Open tsteven4 opened 1 year ago

tsteven4 commented 1 year ago

For example the kml labels option:

./bld/gpsbabel -h kml

        kml                   Google Earth (Keyhole) Markup Language
          deficon               Default icon name
          lines                 (0/1) Export linestrings for tracks and routes
          points                (0/1) Export placemarks for tracks and routes
          line_width            Width of lines, in pixels
          line_color            Line color, specified in hex AABBGGRR
          floating              (0/1) Altitudes are absolute and not clamped to ground
          extrude               (0/1) Draw extrusion line from trackpoint to ground
          track                 (0/1) Write KML track (default = 0)
          trackdata             (0/1) Include extended data for trackpoints (default = 1
          trackdirection        (0/1) Indicate direction of travel in track icons (defau
          units                 Units used when writing comments ('s'tatute, 'm'et
          labels                (0/1) Display labels on track and routepoints  (default
          max_position_point    Retain at most this number of position points  (0
          rotate_colors         Rotate colors for tracks and routes (default autom
          prec                  Precision of coordinates, number of decimals
tsteven4 commented 1 year ago

We should either wrap and indent the help string, or enforce a limit on the length of the help strings.

tsteven4 commented 1 year ago

QTextBoundaryFinder::Line might be useful for breaking up the help string into multiple lines.