Resizing of columns when changing displays

[funnym0nk3y]

Hi,

on the current master build I observed a strange behavior when dragging the window from one screen (4K, 150% scaling, screen 1) to another screen (1050p, 100% scaling, screen 2) on Windows 10. Basically the width of the columns in the main view changes when dragging the window from screen 1 to screen 2. But when dragging the window back to screen 1 the width of the columns is not resized.

Screen 1:

to screen 2:

and back to screen 1:

Sorry to bother you again with my HiDPI issues...

funnym0nk3y

[calixtus]

Hi @funnym0nk3y , thanks for describing the issue. This really seems a bit odd. What would be the expected behaviour?

I believe the deeper cause for the current behaviour is that JabRef / JavaFX is storing the column widths as absolute values instead of relative to the window / screen size.

[funnym0nk3y]

There are three different behaviours I'd find more intuitive:

• The relative sizes to each other are kept to display the same information what was shown in screen 1 on screen 2.

• Adding to the first one, one could introduce a minimal width each column should have and if not everything fits into the available width, introduce horizontal scrolling.

• Save a default layout for each screen. When the user changes column width or shown columns update the default layout to a user specific. When dragging the window arround use the most recent layout.

Those are some possibilities I could imagine...

[calixtus]

Thanks for the ideas @funnym0nk3y . This issue is marked as a bug and put in the line.

We are always happy about people contributing to JabRef. Maybe you see some things you like to work on?

[funnym0nk3y]

@calixtus I certainly would, but I have not written literally on line of Java in my life. But I'll try to make contributions where I can!

[tobiasdiez]

The same problem also appears when the window is resized: #5898 (comment)

[digdig]

Any schedule of this issues? It still persists in the stable version. Previously I submit a very similar issue on the mac version #5615 , it got fixed. Hope this issue will help the current one.

[ilippert]

The same issue affects the width of the window segment reserved for groups, web search etc.

[ilippert]

JabRef 5.2--2020-12-07--c770310
Linux 5.9.11-200.fc33.x86_64 amd64
Java 15.0.1

I currently experience the problem that when I move jabref from my horizontal screen to a vertical screen, on the vertical screen, JabRef renders the columns not sufficiently wide, so I cannot read anything in them. I cannot scroll the table sideways.

JabRef does restore the prior column widths when returning to the horizontal screen.

[funnym0nk3y]

This issue is still present in the latest nightly.

EDIT: I've just seen the stale lable has already been removed.

[ilippert]

I imagine this bug is also related to what I describe at #6348 (comment)

[ThiloteE]

Does this happen when fit table horizontally on screen that can be found under options>preferences>entry table is enabled or does it happen when it is disabled?

[koppor]

Fixed by #7181