Missing scroll bar

20 Jan 2011

Off and on over the past few months I have experienced an occasional missing scroll bar problem. I finally got around to seeing if it could be reproduced reliably, and came up with the following:

  1. Use the “New” button to create a new project.
  2. Expand the project file list in the Program Workspace window by clicking the "+" sign.
  3. Double click on “main.cpp” to open it for editing.
  4. Click inside the file (to shift focus to the edit window).
  5. Move back to the Program Workspace window and click on the "+" sign in front of the mbed library icon in the current project. This opens a list of library function names. Click on one, say, AnalogIn. The descriptive page comes up, replacing the edit window. The text runs off the bottom of the browser window, but no scroll bar appears. And if you click on a link to one of the off-screen topics, the window will show the appropriate information, but there is no way to get back to the top of the page.

Work-around: if the browser window is re-sized, the scroll bar will appear.

I'm using FF 3.6.13 under XP Pro SP3.

16 Jun 2011

Should be fixed in beta

16 Jun 2011

Mixed results here: I tested the fix after reading this update, and still got the buggy behavior.

Then I tried it a second time and it worked fine.

So I deleted the test project and created a different test project. Again, it failed on the first trial.

Hmmmm...

16 Jun 2011

Ok, i've got this to fail on FF 3.6.13 now. Will reopen.

Thanks, Simon