[QGIS-trac] [Quantum GIS] #2534: avoid the possibility to enter -in attributes table- strings/numbers beyond the field length

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#2534: avoid the possibility to enter -in attributes table- strings/numbers beyond
the field length
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   Reporter:  lutra                             |              Owner:  nobody       
       Type:  bug                               |             Status:  new          
   Priority:  major: does not work as expected  |          Milestone:  Version 1.5.0
  Component:  Vectors                           |            Version:  HEAD         
   Keywords:                                    |   Platform_version:               
   Platform:  All                               |           Must_fix:  Yes          
Status_info:  0                                 |  
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 Actually you can enter values in the attributes table with a length that
 is > of the field length. This can be source of problems as a users can be
 mislead to believe the field has room for more chars/numbers than has
 really.

 Fixing this will also indirectly fix another bug:

 if the attributes table has only one row and you edit it, if you enter a
 value that has more chars/numbers than allowed by the field length, when
 you toggle editing to save changes, the value is not immediately truncated
 leading to believe that that particular edit went fine.

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/2534>
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