Base: check boxes in forms lost after update

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#1

Hi all,

after updating LibreOffice on a Debian stretch system to 6.1.0.2 (build-ID 1:6.1.0~rc2-3~bpo9+1), all check boxes in data base forms are lost, and it looks as if the icons for form controls toolbar are partly lost (see attached screen shot, German locale, i.e. “Markierfeld” is the newly added check box).

Furthermore, I see many messages like

(soffice:22104): Gdk-WARNING **: gdk_window_set_icon_list: icons too large

on the console – not sure if this is related.

Is this a “known” issue, for Debian at least? Any idea how I can fix it?

Thanks in advance
Albrecht.

#2

Hi,

First the mailing list does not support binary attachments, so the screen
shot is not available. (if you want to share those you need to push them up
to an on-line location and share the url)

As for the form controls, they have changed homes - some of the controls
that in earlier versions where on the 'More Controls' toolbar are now on
the 'Form Controls' toolbar.

I'm using Ubuntu 18.04 and Libo 6.1 RC3 from the tdf download, I'm having
no problem here working with check box controls on Base forms,

So, what might be different from your environment and mine - I'm using GTK2
not 3, what about you?

//drew

#3

Hi Albrecht,

after updating LibreOffice on a Debian stretch system to 6.1.0.2
(build-ID 1:6.1.0~rc2-3~bpo9+1), all check boxes in data base forms are
lost, and it looks as if the icons for form controls toolbar are partly
lost (see attached screen shot, German locale, i.e. “Markierfeld” is the
newly added check box).

You are using a special Debian-build of LO, made from a
release-candidate of LO. The released version of de.libreoffice.org is
6.1.0.3

Try to install this version parallel to the Debian-version.

Open the form for editing, open the formnavigator and have a look. Do
you see the checkboxes here and not in the form?

Regards

Robert

#4

First the mailing list does not support binary attachments, so the screen shot is not available. (if you want to share those you need to push them up to an on-line location and share the url)

Ooops – it's here: <http://www.mynetcologne.de/~nc-dreszal/LO_Checkbox.png>, showing the toolbar, and the effect after adding the check box (“Markierfeld”): it appears, with the default title, but /without/ the actual check box control.

As for the form controls, they have changed homes - some of the controls that in earlier versions where on the 'More Controls' toolbar are now on the 'Form Controls' toolbar.

The effect also appears for a bigger project for accessing a PostgreSQL data base. The forms document has been created with an older Libreoffice version (5.2, iirc), but it worked just fine (apart from bug #115619) with 6.0, too. With 6.1, the check box controls are gone, with only the titles remaining. Apparently still operational if I click on it (the field in the database changes), but no visible control.

I'm using Ubuntu 18.04 and Libo 6.1 RC3 from the tdf download, I'm having no problem here working with check box controls on Base forms,

O.k., will try that version (at work, i.e. tomorrow).

So, what might be different from your environment and mine - I'm using GTK2 not 3, what about you?

I use XFCE on both the Debian and the Ubuntu boxes, with both Gtk+-2.0 and Gtk+-3.0 being available.

Thanks,
Albrecht.

#5

Hi Albrecht,

could be it is this bug:
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105463
... but it has been fixed a year ago ...

Try to set the style of the box to 3D.

Regards

Robert

#6

Ok. I made a quick test with a freshly installed Stretch vm:
* The package 6.1.0.2 / build-ID 1:6.1.0~rc2-3~bpo9+1 (actually coming from stretch-backports) is definitely broken, i.e. doesn't show the check box forms (also broken in writer), but
* the “official” tarball of deb's from de.libreoffice.org *does* work as expected.

So it's time to file a Debian bug report!

Thanks a lot for your help,
Albrecht.

#7

Hi Albrecht,

So it's time to file a Debian bug report!

There is already an ongoing discussion about this problem on the LO-dev
mailing list.

Alex