Control tip strip input box should not accept more than max allowed number of characters

[MGiacomet]

The documentation states that the Tip Strip is limited to 255 characters, however the Documentation tab of a control Properties page does no checking against that limit. One will only find out if there are more than 255 characters during execution, when the tip strip is truncated!

Please enforce the character limit of the Tip Strip input box, at design time. Also, while at it, make that box taller.

[AristosQueue (NI)]

I fixed it and Darren buddied it... so finding out that it isn't fixed confused us. Took a bit to figure out what happened... I fixed it in the Properties pages, which is where I usually go to edit desc & tip. I didn't even think about the more direct dialog... and Darren didn't ask me about it when reviewing my fix. You may notice that when we marked the idea as done, we event explicitly noted: "The 'Tip strip' entry on the Properties dialog now has a maximum size of 255 characters." 🙂

So... yeah, this isn't fixed. We will re-open the idea [or move it to a bug report... it's kind of more of a bug at this point because of the difference in dialog behavior].

[Christina_R]

I filed this as bug 1077130.