Created attachment 43616 [details] Screenshot of the "help message" box on WindowsXp32bit (SP3) Hi, as I start \pathtoLibreOffice\program\soffice.exe -h under Windows i get a Message Box labeled Help Message. This box shows me many commandline arguments that i can give LibreOffice at startup. But as you can see in my attached file, the text get a little bit confused. Some characters (or many i don't know) are cut of. And because the message box is not resizeable there is no way to get the information. Regards Volker
[Reproducible] with "LibreOffice 3.4.1RC1 - WIN7 Home Premium (64bit) German UI [OOO340m1 (Build:101)]". Currently I see this as an UI problem. @Tor: Please feel free to reassign if it’s not your area or if provided information is not sufficient.
The relevant .src file location seems to be desktop/source/app/desktop.src, line 163. It would be an Easy Hack to enlarge this dialog. But that is just a stopgap fix, of course. The sane thing would be to have the dialog resizable, or scrollable. Resizable dialogs in general is a much harder problem, and it certainly is not worth it to make just this dialog (which maybe one user in a thousand will even know to look for) resizable. As for making the dialog scrollable, well, why not then instead just have the -h start a normal LO text document window displaying a read-only copy of some suitable help document? And in fact, I would even say that this dialog is fairly useless. Only "power users" would think of running soffice.exe with a -h switch anyway, and they should know how to find out the command-line parameters acceptable in some other way, like in the help. (I hope the same information *is* present in the help? If not, that is then another bug, to be filed against the documentation.) Rainer: you didn't actually assign to me, but that's OK, as I don't want this bug anyway;)
Since all new unconfirmed bugs start in state UNCONFIRMED now and old unconfirmed bugs were moved to NEEDINFO with a explanatory comment, all bugs promoted above those bug states to NEW and later are automatically confirmed making the CONFIRMED whiteboard status redundant. Thus it will be removed.
*** Bug 46048 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Andras Timar committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=4d1285166cbc2fe1acd18e53e056c21145b60be1 fdo#34540 convert 'soffice --help' dialog on Windows to .ui The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.