Question

Hi, I had copied this template, AskedQuestions to my own TWiki, originally, TWikiRelease01Feb2003. It worked ok. Then i upgraded to TWikiRelease04Sep2004. Since then, many things seem broken. Eg. | Question: | |

does not translate the "cols" at all, so my window is quite narrow (one character wide), i can only type one character downwards. I cannot upgrade to 4.0.2 at the moment because of older packages, eg. perl 5.8 instead of 5.8.8 thus modules such as File::Copy are not available.

And, when i click create page after filling the AskedQuestions form, it brings me to edit window, but nothing has been pre-filled. All gets lost!! Should this be expected of an upgrade btwn the two versions?

Environment

-- RichardMollel - 03 May 2006

Answer

If you answer a question - or have a question you asked answered by someone - please remember to edit the page and set the status to answered. The status is in a drop-down list below the edit box.

Dis-regard second part of question about not being prefilled. I was missing WebTopicEditTemplate for some reason... But the "cols" issue is still a problem.

-- RichardMollel - 03 May 2006

I am not sure I understand the issue. Could you describe in more details, and refer to the actual form here in the Support web?

-- PeterThoeny - 04 May 2006

I used the code: textarea name= "question" wrap="virtual" rows="6" cols="40" in the above example, and i received a textarea which is 6 rows by 40 columns. I am not getting that on my TWiki. When i use the same code as above, i get 6 rows but just a single (1) column. When i remove any reference to rows and column from the textarea definition, then i do get some default textarea which looks like 3 rows and 22 columns....though if i type beyond the 22 columns, it adjusts (using slide bar below) to accomodate the text, but the viewable area remains only 22 columns fixed. i can slide from side to side to view all teext. What i needed was 40 columns by 6 rows fixed, as show above when i pasted the same code.

-- RichardMollel - 09 May 2006

I don't understand this either.

Could you possibly reproduce this on a public url / in the Sandbox here at TWiki.org?

-- SteffenPoulsen - 16 Jun 2006