Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 109351
Comments fields are not visible until you try to insert one, then they appear
Last modified: 2017-05-20 11:15:13 UTC
Open a large ODT document with many comments. None of the comments are visible. Open View: Comments, and make sure the tick is visible next to "Comments". Still no comments appear. Attempt to insert a comment (Insert / Comment). A fresh comment box appears, and suddenly all the comments that were hiding appear too. The build is actually OOO320m12(Build 9483), though your drop box would not provide that choice to me when I tried to fill it in.
Created attachment 67870 [details] A large ODT file with many comments, which are sometimes not visible, when they should be.
Currently I do not have a Mac available, maybe it is similar on Windows. I opened the attached document and then scrolled to page 3. The Comment there needed a few seconds to be displayed - this is, because the document layout needs to be build up by OOo Writer and this takes a little time in complex documents like the attached sample. Is this the same you experience or does your Writer refuse to display the comments at all?
Can either be reproduced here nor confirmed by anyone else in the community -> closed.
Sorry, pasted comment in wrong issue. Re-opened.
MRU->OS/MOD: only reproducible on Mac. Open the attached document -> none of the comments is visible, though the "Comment-sidebar" is shown.
Also biting me, running 3.2.1 (m18) under WV on a dual-core PC. One key step to reproduce is that the document must be saved with the cursor (that is, the cursor position which will be saved, and reopened to) not "too near" any comment. I have not determined exact values of "too near". On opening the document, comments won't show, and the Navigator blithely reports, "0 comments". Moving the cursor to a line containing a comment anchor is usually sufficient to provoke all comments to appear (in the Navigator, too). Possibly interesting observation: I watch my Google-gadget CPU meter, to tell me when Writer is finished with its layout, and ready for editing. (Bad things happen, otherwise...) The elapsed time under 3.2.1 is considerably shorter. Maybe some layout step(s) are being skipped until needed? If this is intentional, please at least initialize the Navigator properly. I didn't add any attachments; this happens on every document I have, including master documents.
>I watch my Google-gadget CPU meter, to tell me >when Writer is finished with its layout, and ready for editing. (Bad things >happen, otherwise...) The elapsed time under 3.2.1 is considerably shorter. >Maybe some layout step(s) are being skipped until needed? @od/os: could this be true?
The problem has turned intermittent for me. It does still happen, unpredictably. The CPU-usage profile is distinctive. In all cases, there is an immediate peak, near 70% (dual CPU, so that's two threads), falling rapidly (size-dependent) to near idle (<10%). In the normal case, usage then bobs up and down in the 10%-30% range for a while (size and complexity dependent). In the failure case, usage goes straight to idle and stays there. File size appears not to matter. Happens on my largest master files (>1MB), and my smallest doc (38KB, 1 Comment).
*** Issue 116932 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
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