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I'm finally getting around to reporting an issue I've seen with the UI.
This applies to the movie summary/pop-up window that appears after hovering over a movie for a few seconds. Any movie that has a long title is not being displayed correctly because anything longer than it can fit within one line, it tries to center the long title (two lines or more) into the space that a single line would have taken. Here are a couple examples I found to illustrate the point:

Thanks for reporting this, I hadn't noticed it.

I think the real problem is that movie names are just getting way too long.

I'll work on fixing this for the next release.

Pauven wrote: Thu Jun 06, 2024 2:58 pm Thanks for reporting this, I hadn't noticed it.

You're welcome!

Pauven wrote: Thu Jun 06, 2024 2:58 pm I think the real problem is that movie names are just getting way too long.

I actually LOL at that one. Damn you, Film Editors!

BTW - long Description field entries also get cut off on this pop-up window. That's not as big a deal or as much of an eye sore as the Title being messed up though. For long Descriptions you can always open the full movie page on the next screen and read the full description there.

For the cut off descriptions, I believe that is by design. You should see the three dot ellipsis at the end letting you know that the content was abbreviated. If it's something else, a screenshot would be helpful to make sure we're on the same page.

I'll probably do the same thing for the title. If I start shifting the lower fields down to make room for a longer title, then I have to worry about resizing those fields too, otherwise I'm simply shifting the display bug somewhere else. But perhaps more importantly, the title is still highlighted on the screen, just to the left of the pop-up, and the full title should display unless it's crazy long. So I'll just cut the title short with the...

I agree for the long titles you don't want to just shift everything down and create issues elsewhere on the pop-up window. Adding 3 dots at the end of a single Title line isn't a bad compromise I suppose.

You asked for a screenshot so here's a good example that illustrates a couple things (although not a Long Title).
This movie has a long Description field, which gets cut off. No 3 dots to be seen that I can tell. To me, the description being cut off isn't as bad as the other thing this example shows...

The second thing I'll point out is that the Writers list is not properly readable because it appears to be trying to squeeze everyone's names into one line that is centered vertically. This appears to be the same issue as the Title line for long-title movies, perhaps also needing 3 dots. To summarize, my observation is that most fields that run out of space seem to be trying to fit their contents in a vertically centered field/box that doesn't have enough vertical height to display everything, so that's why we're seeing the tops and bottoms of the text in these fields getting cut off.