Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 16779
navigation toolbar vanishes in forms
Last modified: 2017-05-20 10:48:17 UTC
This is an issue in form design. I think it belongs in the database project. Even if it doesn't, I know it will get promptly dealt with here :-) The problem is that the "Form Toolbar", as the help call it, disppears forever if you press the close button on one corner. It ought to reappear if you set "Navigaiton Bar" to yes in the "Form Properties" dialog. It does not. Though I have only seen this on Windows, it was confirmed, on IRC, by someone using Linux. STEPS TO REPEAT Start a new form, and connect it to a database. By default, a floating "Form toolbar" appears. Click the close box in the top right-hand corner. The box diappears. Now try to restore the toolbar: open the form properties tab, and set the Navigation Bar to "Yes", Expected behaviour: the form toolbar reappears. Actual behaviour: the form toolbar stays invisible. Nor does it appear in any future forms you create or open. What is really strange is that this behaviour seems independent of particular forms used. In fact, with me, it persisted across an upgrade. I found the bug in 1.1 beta 2. Even after I uninstalled that and swithced to RC1, I still don't get the form toolbar when I make a new form.
Problem is the "overlay" of two concepts here: The "Navigation Bar" in the properties of a form only indicates if the bar should be visible in general. Additionally, the "Navigation Bar" in the context menu of an arbitrary toolbar switches on a "navigation bar", which, depending on the context, can be one of different toolbars. In a form, it denotes the "form navigation bar", which in the help is called "form toolbar". If you chose this "Navigation Bar" entry after you closed the floaring via the "x", then it re-appears. I submitted a new issue which requests to make the terminology consistent, unfortunately it's in the internal bug tracking system, because OOo at the moment does not yet know "Help" issues (AFAIK). Additionally, I keep this issue to see if we can enforce the visibility of the navigation bar when a form enters "alive mode". However, this may contradict the concept of OOo's framework (the "second layer" in the description above), but I heard that this is going to be changed anyway :).
Frank, thanks for your prompt attention. But which "arbitrary toolbar" are you referring to? I don't get a context menu offering me any sort of navigation toobar when I right click on the toolbars I already have. This is in RC1 on Windows.
huh? The object bar, the function bar, and the main-toolbar don't have a context menu? Or does this context menu not contain the "Navigation Bar" entry? If the latter, then you first need to open a form. It works perfectly here for me in 1.1 Beta 2, I do not yet have a RC1.
OK. Got it. It only appears when the form is live. That definitely belongs in the help file: you're right. Thanks for your help. I would never in a million years have found it on my own. I'm also putting the oooqa keyword on it, even if it's my own, just for housekeeping.
Well, as said, the toolbar handling is probably to be changed for OOo 2.0, but I don't know details. Let's see the plans, and then see where this one here fits in. The most important thing is that we get consistent terminology in UI and help, and this is what the other bug I mentioned is about. Thanks for your engagement :)
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"According to the OpenOffice.org roadmap (http://tools.openoffice.org/releases) this issue was retargeted to OOo Later."
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