[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 108531] New: Typing in a list box to select an item results in chaos

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108531

            Bug ID: 108531
           Summary: Typing in a list box to select an item results in
                    chaos
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: 5.3.3.2 release
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: Base
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: BridgeportContractor at gmail.com

Created attachment 134031
  --> https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/attachment.cgi?id=134031&action=edit
Sample database showing how a list box is hard to use when typing the selection

How to recreate:

Open the attached database, then open the form.  Type a string of letters into
the list box.  A small list of vendors has been provided and the idea is to
quickly select one using the keyboard (only).

Expected result: Typing the first letters of any item should select it.

Actual result: Typing the first letters of an item selects something else.


I hesitated for many months before submitting this.  I was hoping that since it
was such an obvious issue that it was me, not it, that didn't quite get it.  

I can see that if you type h multiple times it steps through the items that
begin with h.  Perhaps for a small dataset, like 5 items, this works.  But when
databases get larger, and almost by definition databases are all about huge,
this does not work.

Thanks for looking at this.

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