MySQL Bugs: #50349: Layout for fata modeling cannot scale

Bug #50349	Layout for fata modeling cannot scale
Submitted:	14 Jan 2010 23:12	Modified:	29 Jan 2018 10:57
Reporter:	Ricardo Gambaa	Email Updates:
Status:	Won't fix	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Workbench	Severity:	S2 (Serious)
Version:	5.2.11 Beta	OS:	Windows
Assigned to:		CPU Architecture:	Any
Tags:	data, fit, layout, modeling, table

Description:
For a large scale database with aprox more than 40 tables (expanded), the layout does not scale correctly in order for all the tables to fit in.
Also, when auto-adjusting the tables, for the same reason (if used many tables) some of them wont fit and consequently wont be visible unit doing some serious zoom out.
Finally, when adjusting the zoom, the tables will blur until clicking them again.

How to repeat:
Use a schema with more than 30 or 40 tables (without foreign key relation ships), the program will arrange the tables in rows but if you are using a aprox 80% zoom, the last tables wont be visible in the layout until adjusting the layout zoom to under 50%.
Zoom in-out and see how the tables blur out.

Suggested fix:
Auto scale layout when scrolling verically and horizontally, and auto focus the tables when changing the layout zoom.

we are aware that the autolayout, esp. without connections, needs to be improved. unfortunately, this has to wait until the more serious bugs are fixed.

Many thanks for writing a bug report.

Verified as described.

Posted by developer:
 
There are no plans to overhaul the layout engine in the foreseeable future. This problem will be addressed when we switch to a new engine.