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Originally Posted by Bingley Joe View Post


The non-condensed (expanded?) view doesn't seem to be displaying the unit list correctly anymore -- as you can see, items are being clipped by the calculated values to the right of them. I've tried switching themes and rebooting, and neither seems to make a difference, so I'm guessing this is something to do with the app
I added the clipping because in some cases converted numbers were going off the screen. Sadly for some reason it wasn't doing the "..." on it, unsure why. I should probably give it some more space

Originally Posted by Bingley Joe View Post
As far as condensed view goes, it's quite cool in principle, but in practice I'm seeing a couple of problems:



The first thing I notice can be seen in the screenshot above -- in situations where certain units can have multiple types (Point Postscript/Dido/Pica in this example), there is no indication given as to which version is being converted.
I guess I could display the full name and let it show the ellipsis all it wants. I originally only showed units for space but not everything has a unit. So I fell back to if not unit then name.

Originally Posted by Bingley Joe View Post
The other issue I noticed is that when scrolling through the lists, once a selection has been made, the list will always 'jump' to that selection each time you begin scrolling again, making it effectively impossible to simply scroll up/down in the list in order to find a new category/unit..

Instead one must make an arbitrary selection in order to give the list a new position to 'jump' to, scrolling a bit, making another arbitrary selection, scrolling, etc. until you eventually reach the item you're looking for.. I hope that makes sense.. it's a bit tricky to describe.
I found this issue the other night and know the exact cause. I'm just trying to decide the cleanest approach to fixing it.
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