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toscho

02 Aug, 2010 07:02 PM via web

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Hello,

I cannot find the setting to show all tweets and URLs in their full length.
URLs are usually shown with a quotation mark (!) on the right side. Tweets are cut off, the last few characters are replaced by an ellipsis.

To illustrate my problem (English is not my native language), I’ve added a screenshot.

Oh, and the preview doesn’t work here. Just a gray layer over the page which doesn’t go away.

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1. Support Staff 2 Posted by Ed Finkler on 10 Aug, 2010 05:47 PM

   

   The links are shortened, but you can hover over the link to get the
   full URL, or right-click and copy the URL.

   the message you mentioned was not abbreviated by Spaz, as far as I can tell.

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   Ed Finkler
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   @funkatron
   AIM: funka7ron / ICQ: 3922133 / XMPP:***@gmail.com

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2. 3 Posted by Thomas Scholz on 10 Aug, 2010 08:25 PM

   

   I checked this in Thwirl: The tweets are not cut off there. Wild guess: Spaz is counting bytes, not characters. Tweets with multi-byte characters are cut off at the 160th byte.

   And I cannot see the URL on »mouseover«. Additionally, UTF-8 characters are presented in a single-byte encoding without transcoding.

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3. Support Staff 4 Posted by Ed Finkler on 10 Aug, 2010 09:12 PM

   

   Ah, it does look like the full URL was removed from the tooltips. You can right-click to copy the full URL, though.

   Spaz doesn't cut off anything. Since you've not been specific about it, I need to know the following:

   1. what version you're running (make sure it's the newest -- 0.8.7, or get a bleeding edge build)?

   2. Are you posting these messages, or just reading them?
      

      • if you are posting, you can't post messages over 140 (not 160) bytes. This is a limit of Twitter, not just Spaz (see http://dev.twitter.com/pages/counting_characters). Spaz supports whatever charsets are supported within AIR HTML applications, and support for additional charsets is something Adobe must handle.
      • If you are not posting, but reading, it looks like you were complaining about a retweeted message. Spaz 0.8.7 just reads the message provided by Twitter in the normal/older object structure, and doesn't look for the newer API RT. These messages are shortened by Twitter to provide compatibility for older apps, and have the "RT @username" inserted at the beginning. To stay under 140 bytes, the message is shortened -- again, BY TWITTER. Newer versions of Spaz display RTs using the new data structure.

   3. I believe the issue with the titles of URL previews in the tooltip is caused by the web API we're using to get that data, not the Spaz client.

   If you'd like the inline URL shortening behavior to change, feel free to patch the code as you see fit.

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4. Ed Finkler closed this discussion on 10 Aug, 2010 09:12 PM.

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