Bug 43220 - UI: The Navigation Toolbox (top left of Navigator dialog) in Writer can incorrectly launch multiple instances
Summary: UI: The Navigation Toolbox (top left of Navigator dialog) in Writer can incor...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
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(earliest affected)
Inherited From OOo
Hardware: All All
: medium minor
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Whiteboard: target:6.3.0 target:6.2.1 target:7.0.0
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Blocks: Navigator
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Reported: 2011-11-24 03:26 UTC by Harald Koester
Modified: 2024-04-08 11:22 UTC (History)
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Description Harald Koester 2011-11-24 03:26:44 UTC
Problem description: 

I observed a strange behavior at the display of the Navigation toolbar in Writer. Perform the following steps in order to reproduce this strange behavior:

[1] Open a new text document and insert some objects that are displayed in the Navigator (e.g. headings or tables).

[2] Display the Navigator (F5)

[3] Open the Navigation toolbar by clicking the icon at the top of the Navigator. -> [4a], [4b], [4c] or [4d]

[4a] Click an item of the Navigation toolbar in order to select an object type. The object type is selected, BUT the Navigation toolbar is closed. In order to use the advantages (fast changes of object types, jump to next or previous item) of the Navigation toolbar, it has to be remained displayed.

[4b] Click the Previous or Next Icon of the Navigation toolbar. A jump to the next or previous object is performed. But also here the toolbar is closed. Same disadvantages as [4a].

[4c] Close the Navigation toolbar by clicking the icon at the top of the Navigator (not on the X of the Navigation toolbar). The toolbar is closed.

[4d] Click on the title bar of the Navigation toolbar and drag it to new position. -> [5a], [5b] or [5c]

[5a] Click an item of the Navigation toolbar in order to select an object type. Now the toolbar remains displayed as expected for [4a]. 

[5b] Click the Previous or Next Icon of the Navigation toolbar. The jump is performed. Now the toolbar remains displayed as expected for [4b]. 

[5c] In order to close the Navigation toolbar click on the icon at the top of the Navigator (not at the X of the Navigation toolbar). The toolbar is not closed as expected but a second Navigation toolbar is displayed!! -> [6a] [6b]

[6a] Move the second toolbar. The first toolbar disappears. 

[6b] Click on the Navigation icon below the vertical scroll bar. Expectation? The second toolbar is closed. The first toolbar remains displayed. -> [7] 

[7] Click again on the Navigation icon below the vertical scroll bar. Surprise: Toolbar No 3  is opened. The first toolbar remains displayed. -> [8]

[8] Move the third toolbar to a new position. The first toolbar remains displayed. -> [9]

[9] Click again on the Navigation icon below the vertical scroll bar. Toolbar No 4 is opened. Now there are 3 toolbars (No 1, 3, 4) displayed. Great! Really excellent conditions for navigation!?

You can go on with moving, opening and closing of toolbars and jumping to previous or next positions, the effects are always equal or similar.              
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Comment 1 sasha.libreoffice 2012-01-11 00:17:58 UTC
reproduced on LibO 3.5.0 beta 1 on Fedora 64 bit
steps from 1 to 5b (including) looks as useful features, but my be not documented
beginning from 5c - bugs:
1) Navigation appear and disappear randomly (one time opens additional window and another time closes random existing window)
2) let we open document with several sections and several tables and open 2 window of Navigation. When press button "Table" on one window of Navigation and "Section" on another. On both windows appear buttons "To next section". Therefore no use of 2 windows of Navigation.

I am not sure if it is bug or not fully implemented feature, therefore retain status as is.
Comment 2 Rafael Dominguez 2012-08-05 18:14:07 UTC
I established as a bug the complete report. We can identify them as

1.- Navigation toolbar closes after selecting an object type to navigate.
2.- Several toolbars can be created after performing several times the actions described in the previous comments.
Comment 3 retired 2014-12-10 11:47:40 UTC
This is assigned since 2 years. Anything still happening? Harald, could you try reproducing this issue with a current LO version. Is it still valid?
Comment 4 Harald Koester 2014-12-13 15:37:29 UTC
Bug checked again with:

Version 3.5.7 and 4.2.4: Bug still exists with the same behaviour.

Version 4.3.3:
Steps 1 to 6: Behaviour is equal as reported. Steps 7 to 9 are different, hence the navigation buttons have been moved from the vertical scroll bar to the Find Bar since version 4.3.0. But the new function is also not correct, see bug 79167.

Hence strange behaviour still exists, set status back to NEW. Hope that's correct.
Comment 5 QA Administrators 2015-12-20 16:11:16 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 6 Harald Koester 2015-12-30 21:59:52 UTC
I checked the bug again with version 5.0.4. The behaviour is a bit different bit it is still not correct. I observed the following:

[1] Open a new text document and insert some objects that are displayed in the Navigator (e.g. headings or tables).

[2] Display the Find toolbar (View > Toolbars > Find)

[3] Display the Navigator (F5)

[4] Open the Navigation toolbar by clicking the icon at the top of the Navigator. -> [5a], [5b], [5c] or [5d]

[5a] Click an item of the Navigation toolbar in order to select an object type. The object type is selected, BUT the Navigation toolbar is closed. In order to use the advantages (fast changes of object types, jump to next or previous item) of the Navigation toolbar, it has to be remained displayed.

[5b] Click the Previous or Next Icon of the Navigation toolbar. A jump to the next or previous object is performed. But also here the toolbar is closed. Same disadvantages as [5a].

[5c] Close the Navigation toolbar by clicking the icon at the top of the Navigator (not on the X of the Navigation toolbar). The toolbar is closed.

[5d] Click on the title bar of the Navigation toolbar and drag it to new position. -> [6a], [6b] or [6c]

[6a] Click an item of the Navigation toolbar in order to select an object type. Now the toolbar remains displayed as expected for [5a]. 

[6b] Click the Previous or Next Icon of the Navigation toolbar. The jump is performed. Now the toolbar remains displayed as expected for [5b]. 

[6c] In order to close the Navigation toolbar click on the icon at the top of the Navigator (not at the X of the Navigation toolbar). The toolbar is not closed as expected but a second Navigation toolbar is displayed!! -> [7a] [7b]

[7a] Move the second toolbar. The first toolbar disappears. 

[7b] Click "Navigate by" in the find bar. Expectation? The second toolbar is closed. The first toolbar remains displayed. -> [8] 

[8] Click again "Navigate by" in the find bar. Another Toolbar is opened. The first toolbar disappears -> [9]

[9] In order to close the Navigation toolbar click on the icon at the top of the Navigator (not at the X of the Navigation toolbar). The Navigation toolbar is not closed!

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@Rafael: Do you work on this bug?
Comment 7 Harald Koester 2017-04-11 09:59:45 UTC
Bug still exists in version 5.3.2 with Win7.
Bug already exists in version 3.3.0. Hence inherited from OOo.
Comment 8 QA Administrators 2018-04-12 02:35:16 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 9 Harald Koester 2018-04-16 18:54:08 UTC
Bug still exists with version 6.0.3 (64 bit, Win7). Steps 8 and 9 are different, because the Navigate By function has been changed meanwhile.
Comment 10 V Stuart Foote 2018-05-05 01:45:06 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 115817 ***
Comment 11 Harald Koester 2019-01-05 22:16:14 UTC
This bug report does not treat the Navigation toolbar which is displayed with "View > Toolbars > Navigation" but by clicking the Navigation Symbol in the upper left corner of the Navigator window. The function of 'this' Navigator is described here: 
https://help.libreoffice.org/6.1/en-US/text/swriter/01/02110100.html

Therefore this bug is not a dupe of bug 115817, which treats 'the other' Navigation toolbar. Hence I set back the status to NEW.

Furthermore 'this' bug still exists in version 6.1.4. (64 bit, Win10)
Comment 12 V Stuart Foote 2019-01-06 01:33:20 UTC
(In reply to Harald Koester from comment #11)
> This bug report does not treat the Navigation toolbar which is displayed
> with "View > Toolbars > Navigation" but by clicking the Navigation Symbol in
> the upper left corner of the Navigator window. The function of 'this'
> Navigator is described here: 
> https://help.libreoffice.org/6.1/en-US/text/swriter/01/02110100.html
> 
> Therefore this bug is not a dupe of bug 115817, which treats 'the other'
> Navigation toolbar. Hence I set back the status to NEW.
> 

Yes very sorry about that, duplicated in error. The Navigation toolbox (SWNavHelpToolbox) is a part of the Navigator dialog [1]--no relation to the Navigation Toolbar (SwNavigationMgr).

> Furthermore 'this' bug still exists in version 6.1.4. (64 bit, Win10)

Yes on 6.1.4 and current master/6.3.0 I do see the incorrect creation of more than one instance of the popup Toolbox if the toolbox object is moved, and then relaunched. There should only be one.

As to making it persistent--imagine that can be done.

@Caolán, Noel -- could you have a look at the life cycle of the toolbox

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[1] https://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/sw/source/uibase/inc/navipi.hxx?#47
[2] https://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/sw/source/uibase/utlui/navipi.cxx?#401
Comment 13 Caolán McNamara 2019-01-10 11:50:06 UTC
There's a whole bunch of stuff listed in here and much of it goes back to 2011 so it seems a potential tarpit.

I see the multiple toolbox problem locally so I'll take this bug to just address that one single issue to fix things so that clicking the navigation toolbox button will not result in multiple sub toolbox instances. Anything else outside that scope can be entered in a new standalone bug if its still a problem after I try and fix that.
Comment 14 Commit Notification 2019-01-10 16:31:21 UTC
Caolán McNamara committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

https://git.libreoffice.org/core/+/4db0b6fc7f51fb5bfe2d61faf50a3063228da1c8%5E%21

Resolves: tdf#43220 ensure old popup is destroyed on replacement

It will be available in 6.3.0.

The patch should be included in the daily builds available at
https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More
information about daily builds can be found at:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds

Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Comment 15 Caolán McNamara 2019-01-10 16:32:01 UTC
backport to 6-2 in gerrit, fixed in master
Comment 16 Commit Notification 2019-01-15 20:54:45 UTC
Caolán McNamara committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "libreoffice-6-2":

https://git.libreoffice.org/core/+/ab3bfb6d8c29d41384bbaddd41bfe03fe88d9e03%5E%21

Resolves: tdf#43220 ensure old popup is destroyed on replacement

It will be available in 6.2.1.

The patch should be included in the daily builds available at
https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More
information about daily builds can be found at:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds

Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Comment 17 BogdanB 2019-01-26 13:13:27 UTC
Fixed. Verified on
Version: 6.3.0.0.alpha0+
Build ID: 3424004cca7cb61043800f0ff0acc9de64768276
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 4.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3; 
TinderBox: Linux-rpm_deb-x86_64@86-TDF, Branch:master, Time: 2019-01-26_00:45:09
Locale: ro-RO (ro_RO.UTF-8); UI-Language: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 18 Harald Koester 2019-04-11 09:35:19 UTC
Tested with version 6.2.2 (16 bit, Win 10). The behaviour respective comment 6 steps 1 to 7 does not change. So I think the fix does not work. Hence set back status to REOPENED.
Comment 19 John 2024-04-08 01:40:32 UTC
I was not able to reproduce this issue on the version that I am using. Perhaps this issue has been dealt with.
Version: 24.2.0.3 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: da48488a73ddd66ea24cf16bbc4f7b9c08e9bea1
CPU threads: 24; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 22631; UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win
Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US
Calc: CL threaded
Comment 20 V Stuart Foote 2024-04-08 11:22:17 UTC
(In reply to John from comment #19)

Thanks John. Yes this issue was resolved.

In fact the Toolbox picker was replaced, and the Navigator was refactored to use mode selection via drop listbox.

I think that was done [1] for bug 89566 at the 7.0.0 release

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[1]  https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/87005/