Comment 33 for bug 1903632

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In , Trowelandmattock (trowelandmattock) wrote :

(In reply to trowelandmattock from comment #20)
> (sorry about the rouge horizontal scroll bar up there :O)

SOME VIABLE WORKAROUND NOTES FOR USERS OF SMALL TOUCH SCREEN FORMS:

1) - use virtual touch pad, place in corner of screen so buttons are hidden but just enough visible for 2-finger scroll-gesture
[a bit of a fiddle for people who dont use touch screens often, or have more limited finger mobility/sensitivity]

2) - use 'finger-mouse' or hand-held roller-ball style thumb-controller with scroll-wheel. Quite functional for outdoors and situations where touch screen is not wanting to be touched ... but requires additional external device.

3)BEST SOLUTION =
Use the 'jump-to' action of a text/control box when selected to focus that item in center screen : e.g. place long-thin dummy text-boxes alongside real form boxes and have them run as a thin chain down the screen at appropriate sizes> when a dummy box is tapped on that section of the page is focused mid-screen !!!

This method seems to work very well :) !!! - but users may need to be instructed as to functionality (ie the control is now neither an easily recognizable scroll-bar nor directly intuitive touch-control.

Hopefully this may be of use to somebody also exploring interesting possibilities of linux+libre in data-logging for cultural heritage/field-work, but also suggests another possible developer solution - ie a new function for "push_button_control" = "jump_to_section" ....

THANK YOU LIBREOFFICE - I LOVE YOU :) !!!