Opened 5 years ago

#1199 new defect

Parameter error boxes are too small for error

Reported by: smk78 Owned by:
Priority: critical Milestone: SasView 4.3.0
Component: SasView Keywords:
Cc: Work Package: SasView Fitting Redesign

Description

In 4.2.0 on Mac and Win. Reported by a User and verified by @smk78.

When fitting, the parameter error (uncertainty) can sometimes have too many digits to be displayed in full in the box on the FitPage. This is most noticeable, and most irritating, when the error value is in scientific notation, because the exponent gets truncated! Example attached.

Either we need larger boxes, boxes that dynamically adjust their size, or to apply some mantissa formatting to the values displayed.

As an aside, in fixing #1070 we removed the ability to select and copy the value displayed…

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unintelligible-parameter-error.png (127.1 KB) - added by smk78 5 years ago.
Screenshot illustrating a truncated parameter uncertainty

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Change History (1)

Changed 5 years ago by smk78

Screenshot illustrating a truncated parameter uncertainty

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