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Re: [MiNT] XaAES fileselector



On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 19:03 +0100, Helmut Karlowski wrote:
> Am 06.01.2011, 16:55 Uhr, schrieb Lars Schmidbauer <latzmaster@gmx.de>:
> 
> > Hi,
> > i noticed a strange behaviour in  
> > freemint-1.17-06012011/XaAES/fileselector with option
> > "Realtime build directories" activated:
> > If fileselector is opened from any app (filemask *.*), then filenames  
> > longer than 8.3
> > are displayed "shortened", means "somelongname.txt" is displayed  
> > "som....txt".
> > This happens with FAT, VFAT and ext2 filesystems.
> 
> But only at the first redraw. Open another directory and see if it goes  
> away.
> 
> This happens because of corrupt TAB-sizes, not because of 8+3 or something.

So why do we have corrupt TAB-sizes at all ?

If it happens once, that's confusing enough, you shouldn't have to
repeat it to get things to work.

Alan.