5.6 Faulty and oversized Entry Merge Editor Pop Up Window when merging bib data from web.

[anton-vrba]

JabRef version

5.6 (latest release)

Operating system

Windows

Details on version and operating system

No response

Checked with the latest development build

• I made a backup of my libraries before testing the latest development version.
• I have tested the latest development version and the problem persists

Steps to reproduce the behaviour

1. Enter an ISBN
2. Click: Get Bib Data from web,
3. Pop up window for merge is buggy, does not show correctly.

Appendix

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[ThiloteE]

Could you provide a screenshot or explain more in detail of what you mean with "merge is buggy" and "does not show correctly"?

[anton-vrba]

JabRef 5.7--2022-05-02--4718930
Windows 10 10.0 amd64
Java 17.0.3
JavaFX 18+12

I enclose the screendump, the popup is oversized and only shows part of the data to be merged. But once one tries to resize by dragging edges then the rest of the information becomes visible.

[ThiloteE]

There will be a major overhaul of the entry merge editor. See #6190
Maybe it can be solved during this rework.

[HoussemNasri]

The oversized merge dialog was fixed in #8599. @anton-vrba Can you please test the latest development build to see if you can still reproduce the issue?

[anton-vrba]

I could not get JabRef-5.7-portable_windows, i.e. JabRef.exe after unzipping to work. Through the error "Child process exited with code 1"

[ThiloteE]

No error on my machine. So there must be more specific conditions for this error.

[anton-vrba]

Can you give me a link to a .msi file. It is no great deal to uninstall and reinstall.

[Siedlerchr]

@anton-vrba You find the latest version here also as msi https://builds.jabref.org/main/ (5.7...)

[anton-vrba]

OK I see what is happening. The merge pop up has become very large and if the main window of JabRef is placed in the top left hand corner of the screen---where I like it--- the merge pop up is off-screen. Whereas if a place the main window in the bottom left corner of my screen, I get the enormous 1922 by 1163 pop up window.

If the pop up on your system has a different size it looks like uninitialized code to me.

The previous version's merge pop up were constrained within the JabRef main window.

[HoussemNasri]

For now, one solution could be to center the dialog on the screen. JavaFX has no direct method for centering a dialog, but we can use a workaround. In the future, we might consider adding the merge UI as a tab to the maintable, like IntelliJ and Eclipse. IntelliJ uses a tab for diffs and a dialog for resolving merge conflicts.