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#991 Awkward positioning and scrolling in the message window
closed-plugin-bug
nobody
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2013-09-05
2013-08-28
No
geany 1.22 (built on Jan 11 2013 with GTK 2.24.14, GLib 2.34.3) using Mageia 3
Scrolling in the message window has changed for the worse from previous versions. Now requires enlargement of window before the end of the message(s) can be accessed. This is particularly aggravating after a "search files" or compile when the window must be expanded almost to the height of the source window before all the messages can seen. Much better to immediately position the messages so the the tail can be seen at once.
What has changed? As far as I remember nothing major changed in that area in 1.22.
The window showing find in files results remains at the top.
The ordering of output from find in files is indeterminate, so there is not a "correct" end to position the output, the tail is no more likely to be what you are looking for than the top.
On the other hand compiler messages remain at the tail. I find that wrong, I want to fix the first few bugs, not the stupid consequential problems, but thats another story.
Do you have the Scope plugin active by any chance?
Perhaps I skipped some versions.
I have just upgraded Geany to 1.23.1, from Mageia Cauldron. The message
window problem remains. Let me explain more clearly. There are six tabs
(I included Debugger) arranged vertically. If the window cannot display
them all, the lower part of the slider bar is inaccessible until the
window is expanded to show all the tabs. After expansion, dropping the
slider to the bottom displays the last entry. However, reducing the
height again causes the slider button to disappear together with the
last message. To display the last entry, one must awkwardly both expand
the window and move the slider, perhaps several times. Earlier versions
of Geany anchored the last entry at the bottom of the window, so that
expansion was always upwards, with a minimum sized window. The preferred
action would be like a console, showing entries chronologically with the
latest entry at the bottom, with the ability to scroll up if necessary.
On 28/08/13 09:09 PM, Lex Trotman wrote:
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#991As Matthew hinted, does it work if you do not use the scope plugin?
Scope is known to cause sizing issues as it ignores resize requests.
I replied to Matthew's question by "No [I don't use Scope], I installed
Debugger but use Kdbg instead, out of habit. Is Scope better, you
think?". Happily, removing the Debugger plugin has resolved the problem.
On 29/08/13 08:29 PM, Lex Trotman wrote:
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#991I think sourceforge screwed up your message, I didn't get it here on SF or in email. So just to be sure, once the the Debugger plugin was disabled, the problem described in the report goes away?
Possibly related:
https://sourceforge.net/p/geany/bugs/988/
Matthew, I screwed up the message by simply replying to the email generated by SourceForge using a different sender address, so it was rejected and wasn't posted. My ignorance.
Removing the Debugger plugin did restore correct operation. The problem is probably due to the Debugger using a fixed size form that interferes with sizing and scrolling in the other tabs.
Andrey V. reported a similar problem and fix in Bug 988, as you suggested.
Since removing the Debugger plugin restored correct operation, this bug should now be closed.