[PD-dev] [ pure-data-Bugs-2946849 ] suare bracket in label prevent opening properties dialog

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Bugs item #2946849, was opened at 2010-02-06 00:04
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Category: puredata
Group: v0.42
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Matteo Sisti Sette (sistisette)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: suare bracket in label prevent opening properties dialog

Initial Comment:
If you set the label of a tgl, slider, number box or whatever gui object to anything containing a "[" character (without a matching "]" character), the properties dialog won't open any more when right-clicking on the object and choosing "properties".

That is, for example:

1) create a toggle (or bang, or number box, or slider, .....)
2) Rightclick on it and choose Properties
3) In the "label" field, type any name containing an opening square bracket [
4) Click OK
 -> This will apparently work: the square bracket will show up as label
5) Rightclick on the object and try to choose Properties

  ---> the properties dialog won't open.

Workaround to be able to edit the properties without having to destroy and recreate the object: connect a message box to the inlet of the object and send it a [label( object to clear its label. Then the properties dialog will work again.

A closing ] won't cause problems, and a [] ()has funny behaviors (try it!)

The dialog should not let you type any character that is not legal; when set through messages, invalid labels should be either ignored or cause an error message to be print.

I tested only on Windows Vista

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