Re: [Gnumed-devel] Document parts display

[Jim Busser]

On 2011-06-27, at 12:08 AM, Karsten Hilbert wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 11:22:16PM -0700, Jim Busser wrote:
> 
>> so as to indicate (when there is no blob)
>> 
>>      (7 Bytes – no attachment)
> 
> How can the blob be 7 Bytes in size (m i s s i n g) and yet
> not be there ?
> 
> Karsten

Here is what happened: when I double-clicked on the Vietnam 2003 "referral 
report", very little happened. Yes, the edit area opened and I could see, in a 
part, the Comment

        "Happy schoolgirls enjoying the afternoon sun catching the smile of 
passers-by at an ancient bridge in the paddy fields near Hue"

however no word processed or rtf or text or html file opened, nor a photo or 
image (which is what this comment sounded like) and I was not sure how to deal 
with my inability to visualize whatever had been attached.

This is why I asked what I should be expecting, or what might be the solution, 
and I was directed to check logs. All that I could find was the test data 
script, seeming to indicate that instead of an actual document or image file, 
only the text "missing" was attached which seemed to me a "stub" to avoid to 
have to ship an actual document or image in the tarball.

I was not uncertain whether "missing" was a string value intended to serve as 
"the blob" or whether it might serve as a logical parameter. I assumed 
incorrectly that if "missing" was indeed content, something more than the edit 
area should have opened. Nothing opened.

Then I thought "ah, whatever is there is only 7K" and so I thought maybe it is 
fully accounted for by the comment

        "Happy schoolgirls enjoying the afternoon sun catching the smile of 
passers-by at an ancient bridge in the paddy fields near Hue"

but now I think the truth is that the 7K is accounted for by

        "Happy schoolgirls enjoying the afternoon sun catching the smile of 
passers-by at an ancient bridge in the paddy fields near Hue"
+
        "missing"

if each would be saved as a file. I concluded incorrectly that this "referral 
document" consisted *only* of the comment but I gather there was also a tiny 
blob (a file) containing just the text

        "missing".

What happens on Debian and Ubuntu when this part is double-clicked? Does a 
window open to display "missing" in *addition* to the Edit Area window opening?

-- Jim