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Bug 348686

Summary:

SWT: Text in string form field jumps up and down

Product:

z_Archived

Reporter:

Marcel Burkhard <mbk>

Component:

Scout

Assignee:

Andreas Hoegger <Andreas.Hoegger>

Status:

CLOSED WONTFIX

QA Contact:

Severity:

trivial

Priority:

CC:

claudio.guglielmo, mvi, rolf.paulsen, zimmermann

Version:

unspecified

Target Milestone:

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Hardware:

OS:

Windows 7

Whiteboard:

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Screen recording	none

Description Marcel Burkhard

2011-06-08 04:39:58 EDT

Build Identifier: I20110519-1138

When I enter text into a field of a search form, the text jumps up and down with every letter entered.
I encountered the same behavior in older scout versions aswell.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Create a search form with a String Field
2.Launch SWT Application
3.Enter Text to the field

Comment 1 Marcel Burkhard

2011-06-08 04:41:55 EDT

Created attachment 197569 [details]
Screen recording

You should see the problem in this 3 seconds long video.

Comment 2 Marcel Burkhard

2011-06-08 05:16:28 EDT

Problem doesn't occur in windows xp (tested by matthias)

Comment 3 Marcel Burkhard

2011-06-09 02:53:59 EDT

Not search form

Comment 4 Marcel Burkhard

2011-06-09 02:54:47 EDT

(In reply to comment #3)
> Not search form
*specific

Updated Bug Name

Comment 5 Matthias Zimmermann

2011-06-09 08:15:35 EDT

problem doesn't occur on windows7 home premium 64bit

Comment 6 Claudio Guglielmo

2011-08-25 11:58:51 EDT

Hi Marcel

This happens because the row height does not automatically scale according to the text height. This depends on the font and its size, on Windows XP it looks well, on Windows Vista not. 

You can increase the rowheight manually which solves the problem. Just add following code into the plugin.xml of your swt plugin:

   <extension
         point="org.eclipse.scout.rt.ui.swt.lookAndFeel">
      <properties scope="global">
         <property name="formfield.activationButton.height" value="24"/>
         <property name="formfield.activationButton.width" value="24"/>
         <property name="logicalGridLayout.rowHeight" value="24"/>
         <property name="processButton.height" value="24"/>
      </properties>
   </extension>

This increases the height of the row by 3 pixel.

Regards
Claudio

Comment 7 Matthias Villiger

2012-04-24 09:59:28 EDT

workaround implemented for Juno: when OS != WinXP the default height is set to 23.

This is sufficient as long as the text scaling of Win7 is not increased above 100%. Unfortunately on some screen resolutions win7 sets a default text scaling of 125%. in this cases the text is still jumping. for affected users the solution explained in Comment 6 can be used.

In the future a dynamic layout would be desirable which always uses the correct height.

Comment 8 Andreas Hoegger

2015-04-14 09:04:34 EDT

removed obsolete bugs due to new HTML UI.