Text of Checkbox-/Radiobutton-Items

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Using MTE on a device with a small display, you cannot read the whole text
on Radiobuttons and Checkboxes in some menus (e.g. display or recording, at
least in the german translation, maybe the english texts are shorter,
haven't tried that). The font-size is too big and the text gets truncated
instead of being continued in a new line (see attached screenshots). This
seems to affect only text that is part of a Radiobutton/Checkbox (not sure
if that's the correct name in Java MTE, but I guess you see what I mean on
the screenshots), 'normal' text is being continued in new lines.

I tried this with MTE 1.13 and MTE 1.14 on my Nokia E65, which I think has
a screen resolution of 240x320 Pixels.

Is it possible to allow reducing the font-size or line-breaks for these items?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by i...@nurfuerspam.de on 21 Mar 2009 at 9:34

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Unfortunately we can't change the font size of forms as they are phone 
specific. Good
phones either scroll the long text or wrap it to new line.

We should consider using shorter texts for translations to avoid this problem.

Original comment by tlaukka...@gmail.com on 21 Mar 2009 at 11:28

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Hmm.... that's strange. Because I have a Nokia Phone (Nokia 5000) and when 
select a 
CheckBox oder a RadioBox, I can press the left Button with "Optionen" as Text 
(german translation) and then "Anzeigen". Then I can read the hole text of the 
RadioBox. I think this is also possible with your Phone. Otherwise a would 
write to 
Nokia. For me it's not a bug.

Original comment by seitz.ch...@gmail.com on 23 Mar 2009 at 1:09

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Hmmm, unfortunately I don't seem to have this option on my mobile. As you can 
see on
the screenshots, the left and right button are labeld with "OK" and "Abbrechen" 
("Ok"
and "Abort"). I tried all other button, but none gives me any option to show the
whole text (in fact, none of the other buttons does anything at all). Strange 
that
this seems to be a device-specifc issue.

As a workaround / further enhancement, maybe it would be possible to add a help 
entry
to every settings-item: Instead of labeling the 2 buttons with "Ok" and "Abort" 
one
of them could be labeled with "Options", which would display a popup with "Ok",
"Abort", "Help" (and possibly even more like "Reset to Standard"). This "Help" 
entry
could list all possible settings and provide further explanation. So even if I 
only
see the first 12 letters of a checkbox entry, I could find it in the Help menu 
and
also read an arbitrary long text on what this entry actually effectuates.

As you pointed out, this is not really a bug in MTE, so maybe someone can 
change the
type of this issue form "Defect" to "Enhancement".

Original comment by i...@nurfuerspam.de on 23 Mar 2009 at 1:45

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I think a workaround should be possible, because some items could not be made 
shorter. As you mentioned a 
menu, which has Options ("OK","Show",..etc.) to show the whole Context would be 
nice. But then there might be 
some problems with other phones like mine. 

Original comment by seitz.ch...@gmail.com on 23 Mar 2009 at 2:33