MySQL Bugs: #53070: Multiple Workbench query tabs cannot be scrolled

Bug #53070	Multiple Workbench query tabs cannot be scrolled
Submitted:	22 Apr 2010 16:29	Modified:	12 May 2010 10:24
Reporter:	Cecil Carpenter	Email Updates:
Status:	Closed	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Workbench: SQL Editor	Severity:	S2 (Serious)
Version:	5.2.19	OS:	Linux (Ubuntu 9.10)
Assigned to:	Alfredo Kojima	CPU Architecture:	Any
Tags:	Workbench SQL Editor Query Tabs

Description:
When you have multiple query tabs open and the tabs extend to the right beyond the window, there is no way to scroll to the tabs that are not showing.  The tabs are for a single connection.  When the only tabs were on the upper bar, scrolling was possible.  Now that the tabs have been moved to be under the connection tab, scrolling does not work (at least there is no scroll bar to do this, and after trying all key combinations I could think of to move between the tabs).

How to repeat:
1.  Open a connection to a database.
2.  Open a query.
3.  Use Query/New Tab or ctrl-T to open a new query tab under the same connection.
4.  Repeat steps 2 and 3 until some query tabs are no longer visible.
5.  Attempt to move focus back to a tab that is no longer visible.

Suggested fix:
Add a scroll bar for query tabs or provide some key stroke method for moving between query tabs.

Thank you for the bug report. Verified on FC 12 X86_64.

Scrolling enabled

fix confirmed in repository

An entry has been added to the 5.2.21 changelog:

In the SQL Editor, if multiple Query tabs were opened so that they used more than the available screen width, it was not possible to move to the tabs that were not visible.

MySQL Workbench has been changed so that scroll buttons appear should the number of tabs exceed the screen width. It is then possible to access non-visible tabs using the scroll buttons.