Value Inspector truncating long variables

Questions & Suggestions
1

Just discovered the Value Inspector. Looks like a useful feature!

Unfortunately, when i use it to display variables that contain a lot of text, there are two problems:

  1. The text doesn't wrap, so any lines longer than the window length are truncated.
  2. The text display is only high enough to show the first eight lines (and a little bit of the top of the ninth).

You can see the problem in this screenshot:

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Is this a known issue?

2

It is a known behaviour, yes.

If you want to display your variables in other ways, you will probably have to use an alternative solution, maybe a Custom HTML Prompt window, or maybe open it in a TextEdit window or something like that.

3

Ah, thanks for the reply. I would request that the text area be made resizeable or scrollable when the variable content doesn't fit.

I think the Custom HTML Prompt window or text-file solution wouldn't update when the variable changes, right? What seems useful about the Value Inspector is that it updates in real time.

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4

The Custom HTML Prompt window could update continuously. Writing the variable to a text file could also be done continuously, and BBEdit (for example) would detect those changes in real time.

5

That would be very challenging for most of us, including me.
If you really think that is a better solution, then perhaps you could provide an example Custom HTML Prompt that would do what you say.

Thanks.

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