how long is the string?

These text strings are any where from 45 to 80 or more characters. The resultant truncated strings are about 40 characters.

--svb

The more i mulled about this, the more i'm bothered by the quirkiness of how DVDa's text editing features work.

For example, when there is a fairly long text string for a menu label, one has to keep overriding the "Auto" sizing feature in order to be able to visually inspect the text during editing. Even when the desirable text size is set, "Auto" sizing keeps coming back when the text box is resized.

The idea should be "do what i mean". That is, if i set the text size, keep the dang thing that way, regardless of the text box size, until i change the text size.

If DVDa is not that competent in its text editing, there should be an import feature allowing text objects being brought in (as menu text) from other tools.

--svb

This is one of the first things I noticed and immediately disliked. I think the main reason I "complained" about it was due to a old desktop publishing program I had years ago that did the same annoying thing. It defauted to "auto" and then if if you overrode the setting to set the text size to what YOU wanted, you started typing thinking you fixed it only the have the application revent back to "auto" again, undoing what you done. While you can drag the text box to a size you think will be big enough, the annoying "auto" features constantly kerns and resizes the text as you type. Fine if you WANT it to do this, if you don't, then you find yourself cursing this feature. I finally resigned myself to leaving it at AUTO until I had all the text typed, THEN I set the type size, family I wanted.

I think something that MUST be fixed soon. Fine to have an auto feature, by for Pete's sake, let the USER decide if or not he wants this "feature". To nitpickers, which I am, the danger of the auto feature is under auto your text size may be close to a specified size, yet slightly off compared to a selected text size. The result can be on text caption looking just a little different than another, making it look strange. Again, maybe only an annoying feature to those that have a super critical eye to fine detail. Many of us do. <wink>