You can use a 3rd-party app such as TinkerTool to enable an undocumented OS UI option that puts arrows for both directions at both ends of scrollbars. Using ASCII art, I will attempt to show what I'm talking about. At each end of the scroll bar there are two arrows, < > -------[============]---------- < > instead of one < ---------[============]------------ > In OpenOffice Writer, these don't work correctly. If you click on the innermost arrow at each end, it is as if you clicked in the scrollbar area. This hidden option has been in Mac OS X for many years, and there are many apps that will enable the option. TinkerTool is just one such tweaker app. See the attachments to follow.
Created attachment 45892 [details] TinkerTool screen shot In TinkerTool, select the General panel. Then set "Place scroll arrows" to "together at both ends".
Created attachment 45893 [details] screen shot showing double arrows at both ends of scroll bar Screen shot of what the scroll bar looks like with the option set to "Place scroll arrows" "together at both ends".
Created attachment 45894 [details] Movie showing the bug This movie goes by really fast, so maybe you should step through it slowly. I click a few times on the down control, and the window scrolls a little bit each time. So far, so good. Then I click on the up control, and it scrolls all the way in the other direction. The reason this happens is that although the up control is displaying, when I click there, it is as if I clicked in the end of the scroll bar area, which on the Mac (unless you set an option otherwise) scrolls to there, i.e. all the way to the end.
[This is an automated message.] This bug was filed before the changes to Bugzilla on 2011-10-16. Thus it started right out as NEW without ever being explicitly confirmed. The bug is changed to state NEEDINFO for this reason. To move this bug from NEEDINFO back to NEW please check if the bug still persists with the 3.5.0 beta1 or beta2 prereleases. Details on how to test the 3.5.0 beta1 can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/BugHunting_Session_3.5.0.-1 more detail on this bulk operation: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/RFC-Operation-Spamzilla-tp3607474p3607474.html
@ Dave Yost Libre Office renders it's own interface. No matter what option of OS selected. Let ask expert about this. @ Caolan What You think about this?
yeah, someone would have to implement the emulation in vcl/aqua/source/gdi/salnativewidgets.cxx this is kind of obscure stuff though, some mac hacker would have to take this task up, probably not too hard to implement, but not something I'll personally be implementing.
Easy hack for Mac?
kind of need a mac hacker to hazard a guess really
(In reply to comment #0) > In OpenOffice Writer, these don't work correctly. If you click on the innermost > arrow at each end, it is as if you clicked in the scrollbar area. > Incidentally - Dave, can you check if Firefox handles this correctly?
Dear bug submitter! Due to the fact, that there are a lot of NEEDINFO bugs with no answer within the last six months, we close all of these bugs. To keep this message short, more infos are available @ https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/NeedinfoClosure#Statement Thanks for understanding and hopefully updating your bug, so that everything is prepared for developers to fix your problem. Yours! Florian
Can't try it in Firefox because the latest os (10.8) doesn't have arrows at the ends of scrollbars anymore.
Okay, anyway I will change it to NOTOURBUG