MySQL Bugs: #39735: Missing horizontal scrollbar in "Pysical Schemata"

Bug #39735	Missing horizontal scrollbar in "Pysical Schemata"
Submitted:	29 Sep 2008 18:31	Modified:	28 Aug 2009 9:59
Reporter:	Florian Ortner	Email Updates:
Status:	Closed	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Workbench	Severity:	S2 (Serious)
Version:	5.0.25	OS:	Windows (or any)
Assigned to:	Mike Lischke	CPU Architecture:	Any
Tags:	CHECKED, physical schemata, scrollbar

Description:
There is a problem with the frontend when adding more databases to the model as can be displayed in "physical schemata" according to the display width.
That wouldn't be so dramaticalliy to usability if a double click in the catalog-view of the sidebar has the same functionality as a double click in "physical schemata".
Only workaround I have found was to connect another display in extended desktop mode to access these "hidden" databases.

How to repeat:
Ad more physical schematas to model than can be displayed according to display width.

Suggested fix:
Horizonal scrollbar or double click event in sidebar.

Thank you for the bug report.

I am using MySQL WorkBench 5.0.30 SE and severely effected from this problem.
I do not have a secondary video output and have no monitor wider than mine nearby. So, quite stucked.

Besides a horizontol scrollbar and double-click in the catalog pane, following options are also viable :
1. Drop-down list just like ones used in "MySQL Model" page and "Main Editor Window"
2. Add much more capabilities to context menu of the items of CATALOG pane - a tree view.
There is no risk of visual interface hinders for tree views. Besides I would prefer it over a fancy "Physical Schemata" pane design. Some recommendations for the context menu of different type of items :
Schema : Show in the "Physical Schemata"  
         (a solution to the subject of this bug)
Tables : Add Table
Table : Add Trigger
Views : Add View
Routine Groups : Add Routine Group
Routine Group : Add Routine

Bug #42696 was set as duplicate of this bug here

Fixed in 5.1 + 5.2

instead of adding a scrollbar we added a small down-arrow-button at the right side of the schema-tab-bar which provides a dropdown to select and scroll to a specific schema-tab (similar to the way common browsers handle their tabs).
will be included in 5.1.18

An entry was added to the 5.1.18 and 5.2.3 changelogs:

In the Physical Schemata pane if more schema were added than could fit within the pane, then these schema could not be viewed, as there was no ability to scroll the pane. Further, double clicking the schema in the Catalog pane did not locate the schema in the Physical Schemata pane.

MySQL Workbench was changed so that a small down arrow button was added to the right side of the Physical Schemata tab bar. This provides a dropdown to select a specific schema tab.