[horde] IMP compose textfield very narrow (update)

[Jason Dixon]

On Sep 8, 2005, at 1:14 PM, Jason Dixon wrote:

> On Sep 8, 2005, at 11:04 AM, Jason Dixon wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure when or how this happened, but the compose textfield is
>> only 20 characters wide.  Where might this value be stored and how
>> could it have gotten changed?  It's not a rendering bug, I tested on
>> all browsers.
>
> Whoa, this is really weird.  Everything is back to normal now, and I
> haven't touched the server.  I had at least four people report this
> behavior (not including myself) yesterday and through this morning.
> Any idea what could have caused this?

Sorry to self-reply, but the situation has changed yet again.  The  
problem has started up again, but not for me.  I had one of the users  
send me the html source from the capture window, and I noticed that  
the message input is missing a value for cols.  (cols="").  I looked  
through the IMP source and found the relevant line in imp/templates/ 
compose/compose.inc:

<       <textarea class="composebody" tabindex="<?php echo $tabindex+ 
+ ?>" name="message" id="message
" rows="20" cols="<?php echo $prefs->getValue('wrap_width') ?>"><?php  
echo htmlspecialchars($msg) ?><
/textarea>

And the same thing from CVS:

 >       <textarea class="composebody" tabindex="<?php echo $tabindex+ 
+ ?>" name="message" id="message
" rows="20" cols="80"><?php echo htmlspecialchars($msg) ?></textarea>

Why is the wrap_width value from IMP-4.0.3 empty for these users?   
Why doesn't it default to a valid non-zero value?  And is there any  
reason to hardcode this value for all users, or should I just edit  
the template to make cols="80" permanently?

Thanks,

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Jason Dixon
DixonGroup Consulting
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