[libreoffice-users] Shrinking buttons

On 07/28/2011 01:23 PM, planas wrote:
> > Please file a bug, I do not what the issue is. I have never seen any 
> > behavior like this myself.
> > If you could give more details may be (very may be) someone monitoring 
> > the list may know what is happening.
Here's more detail. I did quite a bit of experimentation on this so please 
bear with me. 

I developed the spreadsheet on a large laptop with a very high res display. 
When I run the spreadsheet on a low res netbook (1024x600) at 100% scaling 
factor everything starts out fine, but as the spreadsheet is used, the 
buttons I have on the 21 sheets start getting smaller and smaller vertically 
(Height) until some are so small you can't hit them. Width stays as 
originally intended. I have no code that attempts to manipulate the buttons. 

I created the buttons (3 of them) on one sheet and then copied them to the 
other 20 sheets on my development laptop. Even stranger is the fact that as 
these buttons are arranged one above the other vertically, within 1 large 
merged cell, its always the bottom button that shrinks to near invisibility. 
The middle button also shrinks but not as much, and the top button shrinks 
even less. Once the bottom button gets to its minimum size, (.02cm) 
shrinking seems to cease. 

If the spreadsheet is saved and reopened, the buttons are still shrunken. 
Something is rewriting the height of the buttons and a save keeps the 
shrunken height. The spreadsheet becomes unusable until I blow the buttons 
away and recreate them as that's easier than fixing them individually. After 
12 hours of continuous use, with periodic saves, the bottom button on every 
one of the 21 sheets is invisible on a netbook. If I use the original 
undamaged spreadsheet on my laptop or a higher res desktop, this does not 
occur. 

This happens across 21 sheets and many of those sheets never get used as its 
slow season here and we only use about 5 sheets a day that represent the 
dining room tables for restaurant guests. I suspect its because I copied the 
3 buttons from one sheet to the other 20 that they are somehow tied together 
and whatever is shrinking one shrinks them all. Having said that, a contra 
indication is that not all buttons shrink to the same size. There appears to 
be some randomness to the process that gets one button down to .02cm and the 
same button on another sheet down to only .06cm. 

Some other anomalies. 

In the same .ods file, I have a sheet that provides a composite view of the 
other 21 sheets to a limited extent. I have 21 buttons on that sheet 
arranged vertically that when hit bring up that particular sheet (dining 
room tables order). The last 7 buttons, shrink in height so that the bottom 
button is the smallest (but not completely invisible) and each above it is 
just a bit greater in height until we hit the 8th button from the bottom 
which is full height. 

These last 7 buttons represent dining room tables we're not using. We never 
hit those sheets and yet something is shrinking the last 7 buttons on my 
overview sheet. The difference in height between button 21 to button 20, 
between button 20 and button 19, ... towards the full size button is a 
constant. Its as though some loop is subtracting a constant height from the 
bottom 7 buttons. 

On my development machine, the above does not occur. It has something to do 
with the low res on the netbook. However, even on my mighty development 
laptop, if I delete any one of the 21 sheets, I loose every button on every 
remaining sheet. They all disappear. If I move a sheet from one position to 
another position, everything is OK till I save and reacquire the 
spreadsheet. At that point the entire spreadsheet is trashed as it won't 
open with some bogus internal password error. 

The unbroken spreadsheet is 254KB. I can upload it and provide the passwords 
used in it via a private email as I don't want the whole world knowing my 
business. 

Its occurred on Fedora 14 as Open Office & 15 as Libre Office. We don't use 
Windows at all. 

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