preformatted text in screens

[rwa]

Is there any way (presumably some hack in the front end code) to force a screen to display a text field as preformatted (within <pre> tags) as the item history page does?

I'm capturing mysql show processlist output, and even though the screen code inserts non-breaking spaces the font used must not be fixed width as the table is not properly space. The item history display does use <pre> tags and properly spaces the output.

Thanks for any ideas.

[corsino]

Any news about that?

[rwa]

We wound up modifying the code in the interface to fix it which wasn't too difficult. However, we stopped carrying it forward with upgrades just because of the maintenance hassle. The issue is still there in 2.2.9.

[corsino]

Hi rwa,


Thank you so much for your attention. We are in 2.4.5 version. And we don't like to change the code for the same reason as you. It'll be more difficult to maintain due to upgrades. Anyway, can you send me what you've changed?

[rwa]

Sorry, I don't have it any longer. We changed it several versions ago and discarded it on an upgrade.

If I recall it wasn't took difficult to track down in the web front end, and I believe it only needed to be changed in one place. Sorry I can't be more specific.