Bug 126198 - Uncontrollable scrolling while highlighter is active
Summary: Uncontrollable scrolling while highlighter is active
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
6.2.2.2 release
Hardware: All All
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Blocks: Selection Highlight-Color
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Reported: 2019-07-02 16:20 UTC by jeff.roedel.isp
Modified: 2023-05-17 15:25 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description jeff.roedel.isp 2019-07-02 16:20:42 UTC 
Description:
Use case: reading a text and highlighting interesting parts.

When the highlighter is selected and the cursor approaches the top or bottom viewer limits, the viewer jumpily scrolls--often much more than desired.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a new document
2. Type some text and copy/paste it until you have about 30 pages
3. Select the highlighter tool
4. Move cursor towards the top or bottom of the document window.

Actual Results:
Document window jumpily scrolls

Expected Results:
IMHO it shouldn't scroll at all with the highlighter selected, since the normal cursor doesn't produce a scroll in this manner


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:
I have marked this as severity normal because it makes LO almost unusable for my use case (reading and highlighting a previously existent text)

I believe OpenGL is not enabled.

Version: 6.2.2.2
Build ID: 2b840030fec2aae0fd2658d8d4f9548af4e3518d
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 4.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3; 
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI-Language: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 1 Xisco Faulí 2019-07-09 14:13:40 UTC 
Thank you for reporting the bug. To be certain the reported issue is not
related to corruption in the user profile, could you please reset your
Libreoffice profile ( https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/UserProfile ) and
re-test?

I have set the bug's status to 'NEEDINFO'. Please change it back to
'UNCONFIRMED' if the issue is still present
Comment 2 jeff.roedel.isp 2019-07-09 15:31:12 UTC 
Thanks Xisco, 

I followed the instructions to test the bug ruling out user profile issues and I can confirm that it persists.

I did note that when there is sufficient margin at the top of the page, it doesn't scroll as far, but I believe it shouldn't scroll at all by proximity of the highlighter to the top or bottom of the window.

Especially since I often use Web view, I have no margins to mitigate the scrolling.

Thanks!
Comment 3 IM 2019-08-01 16:01:08 UTC 
Thank you for reporting the bug. I can confirm that the bug is present in:

Version: 6.2.5.2 (x86)
Build ID: 1ec314fa52f458adc18c4f025c545a4e8b22c159
CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 6.1; UI render: default; VCL: win; 
Locale: pl-PL (pl_PL); UI-Language: en-US
Calc: threaded

Version: 6.4.0.0.alpha0+ (x86)
Build ID: 5c30c20101f72d973ff28c228f755e635cad14d5
CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 6.1; UI render: default; VCL: win; 
Locale: pl-PL (pl_PL); UI-Language: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 4 QA Administrators 2021-08-01 03:54:06 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 5 BogdanB 2023-05-17 15:25:32 UTC 
Also in
Version: 7.6.0.0.alpha1+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 247738a9afeeb2f0644fa0307b7023fe115fae83
CPU threads: 16; OS: Linux 5.19; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: ro-RO (ro_RO.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded