LibreOffice base loses toolbars in form design

[mart1n]

Binary package hint: libreoffice

when creating a database in LibreOffice 3.3 base, all goes well, until you want to design a form. Using the wizard works fine until complete, and then wanting to make additional changes to the form. Then the only thing consistently available is the toplevel menu, all toolbars disappear. It is possible to tag them via "view/toolbars", and they may show up but any change to the window, and they disappear entirely, but stay tagged in the view/toolbar list.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: libreoffice-core 1:3.3.0-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-1.28-generic 2.6.38-rc2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-1-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Feb 4 03:15:20 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20110120)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8:en
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 LC_MESSAGES=en_AG.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: libreoffice

[Tony (tony-smith)]

Any progress on this issue, and yet it is not fixed.

At first I thought it was because the form I designed was a complicated 1, but alas that is not the case. I have since created a simple hsql embedded database, of 1 table, with 3 fields, including an auto increment primary key field.

Used the forms wizard to create a form based on that simple table.

The form gets created.

On the fullsize laptop & PC, libreoffice base woks as it should, however, on 2 separate netbooks, an Elonex webbook, and a Dell inspiron 1011, the Elonex having a VIA C-7M 1600MHz processor, the dell, Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N270 @ 1.60GHz processor, the following occurs.

The forms successfully creates
However, when attempting to edit the form., you cannot get the form design toolbar to display, nor the form controls toolbar.
Right clicking on a form control, will not allow you to edit the form control.

Each of the laptops, and netbooks have Ubuntu 10.04 installed, and fully updated. Also, have Java 6 updates 22 installed, all other versions of java removed.

The only thing I can think of that is appreciably different is the resolution ratio, as the netbooks have the screen resolution of 1024x576., but that may be coincidental.

Please resolve this issue as soon as possible, or at least post regular updates as for when a fix is likely.

Thanks Tony

[davidr (davaweb)]

I can only view the Standard and Formatting toolbars in Base form design. (ubuntu 10.04 AMD64)

[Tony (tony-smith)]

Oh well

Since OO 3.3 was released, Base at least is unusable on screens with a resolution of 1024x576. Which in all honesty is a shockingly glaring error, especially when taking into consideration the popularity of netbooks/umpc's. We use them alot with work, especially for those of us on call.

Now the natural progression from here, is, that if OO3.3 is useless on a netbook/umpc, then it's also useless on other systems where Base files are also going to be used on netbooks / umpc's.

That being the case, the only real alternative to OO, is MS Office.

If using MS Office, then there is no other real option, other than to use a MS based OS

If using MS Office, there is no requirement to use either Hsql or MySQL to make the database portable, it makes sense to use MS Access.

What follows then, is that, should the database grow too large for MS Access, the next logical step will be to go down the SQL Server route, again, negating the need for MySQL, or even Oracle DB.

Putting OO 3.3 out with such restriction, must be some of the best new Microsoft has had in an age. It looks like after nearly 10 years of using OO/LO, I'm going to have to start looking for an alternative

Cheers