Bullet text formatting in rich text note field NOK

[Laurent]

Hi Brendan,

MacOS 26.0
Tap Forms Pro 1.0.11

All my bullet texts in rich text note field disappeared after updating to 1.0.11. Still there on iOs…

Would you please have a look ?

Thanks a lot !
Laurent

[John Simpson]

Seeing the same behaviour here too.

Glad it’s not just me, I’ve been chasing my tail for an hour trying to correct the missing bullets.

Cheers,
John

[Brendan]

I’ll look into this issue.

That’s weird. Maybe it’s a Tahoe issue. Looks fine on macOS Sequoia. 1.0.11 is the first build that was made on Tahoe though. So it’s not something I’ve directly done. But I’ll see if I can figure out what’s happening.

Thanks,

Brendan

[Laurent]

Hello Brendan,

I have just updated to 1.0.12 but the bullet formatting, reported in my first message above, is still NOK.

When do you plan to correct the bug ? This is important for my workflow.

Thank you,
Laurent

[Brendan]

Whoops, sorry about that.

I see what you mean now. I just tested it on Tahoe and it looks ok initially, but when I save it, and enter the Note field again, they disappear. No idea why just yet.

[Brendan]

I’ve found the reason for this issue. I believe it’s an Apple bug, but I have found a workaround for it.

The next update will have the fix and your bullets should re-appear. They’re not gone. They’re just not being displayed by macOS Tahoe.

[John Simpson]

Mac OS Version 1.0.13 just installed here, problem solved 👍
Many thanks,
John

[Brendan]

Hi John,

Excellent! I’m glad the update solved the issue.

Thanks,

Brendan

[Laurent]

Hi Brendan,

Thank you for the update, which solved the issue in the default presentation, still the bullets are missing in printed reports…

Would you please have a look ?

Thank you,
Laurent

[Brendan]

Hmm… printed reports. Ok, I’m going to have to look into that issue. I had only investigated it in the default and custom layouts.

[Brendan]

Is it a custom layout printout or the default layout printout?

[Laurent]

It is the report from default layout

[John Simpson]

If it will help here are my observations, using Tap Forms on Mac, iPad and iPhone.

Bullets in text Notes now show correctly on screen, in all views, before and after synch between devices.
Bullets in text Notes print correctly in custom reports on Mac.
Bullets in text Notes do not appear in default reports on Mac, iPad and iPhone. They do not appear in the print dialogue thumbnail views, nor in the physical print.

Cheers,
John

[Brendan]

So this is proving to be difficult to deal with now on macOS Tahoe. I don’t know why, but Apple’s stripping out the bullets sometimes and not other times. When I pass off the attributed string (which contains the bulleted text), to the PDF generator framework I use, the bullets do not appear.

In fact, even in Xcode they do not appear when debugging to display the attributed string.

However, if I tell Xcode to open the attributed string in the TextEdit application, the bullets are there.

So the bullets are there, they’re just not being rendered by the PDF generator framework. That’s a 3rd party open-source framework I’m using, so it may be difficult to get that to work.

[Brendan]

So this is proving to be difficult to deal with now on macOS Tahoe. I don’t know why, but Apple’s stripping out the bullets sometimes and not other times. When I pass off the attributed string (which contains the bulleted text), to the PDF generator framework I use, the bullets do not appear.

In fact, even in Xcode they do not appear when debugging to display the attributed string.

However, if I tell Xcode to open the attributed string in the TextEdit application, the bullets are there.

So the bullets are there, they’re just not being rendered by the PDF generator framework. That’s a 3rd party open-source framework I’m using, so it may be difficult to get that to work.

[Laurent]

Hi Brendan,

Version 1.0.14 (Build 409)

The bullet pb re-appeared with this last version in the rich text note field : bullet are not visible.

After using and paying for the Pro version since May, I have to say that I am disappointed with the number of bugs. I rely a lot on your software suite for my work and lost of lot time with all the issues. Tap Forms 5 was more reliable to me.

Regards,
Laurent

[Brendan]

Hi Laurent,

I’ll look into this again. Yes, I see that’s the case again where the bullets are being removed again.

It may be due to the function for limiting the number of lines that can be displayed on the default layout for a Note field.

I’m just debugging it now.

Thanks for bringing this to my attention.

Brendan

[Brendan]

Ok, I found the issue with the bullets disappearing. I still think it’s an Apple bug. It’s the same thing as before. Whenever I reference the NSLayoutManager to do things like determine the height of the text view given a specific width, Apple no longer renders the bullets.

I’ve come up with a way of determining the height of the text view without using the NSLayoutManager.

That seems to have fixed it.

Thanks,

Brendan

[Laurent]

Hi Brendan,

Thank you for the positive feedback.

When do you plan to push the new update ?

Thanks,
Laurent

[Brendan]

Well, I’m in the middle of a new sync algorithm at the moment, so it’ll be after I’m done with that. I haven’t yet submitted it to my beta testers yet. So it’s going to be a little while. Know that your bullets are still there. They’re just not being rendered on screen unfortunately.

I’ll see how it goes with my sync development. If it starts taking me too long, I’ll just release an update without it.

Thanks,

Brendan

[Laurent]

Hi Brendan,
I would really appreciate if you could push an update asap to correct the bullets issue which causes me problems in my daily workflow.

Thank you,
Laurent

• This reply was modified 3 days, 7 hours ago by Laurent.

[Brendan]

The bullets are still there. They’re just not rendering.

[Laurent]

yes I know, but the no rendering is causing me problems in my workflow, so would you please push an update to correct the rendering ?

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