Synchronize scrollbars in the change resolver dialog

[HoussemNasri]

[DanielS01ss]

Hi!
I would love to work on this task

[HoussemNasri]

This issue is kind of a follow-up to #9533, so there is nothing to do here until that pr is merged. But you can have a look at other goodfirstissues.

[karan-prajapati-976]

Hey
I would like to work on this task

[u7074786]

Hi, I would like to work on this issue for a university assignment of mine, could I please be assigned to it?

I'm new to working on open source repos like this, so some suggestions on where to get started would also be appreciated.

[github-actions]

As a general advice for newcomers: check out Contributing for a start. Also, guidelines for setting up a local workspace is worth having a look at.

Feel free to ask here at GitHub, if you have any issue related questions. If you have questions about how to setup your workspace use JabRef's Gitter chat. Try to open a (draft) pull-request early on, so that people can see you are working on the issue and so that they can see the direction the pull request is heading towards. This way, you will likely receive valuable feedback.

[ThiloteE]

@u7074786 this issue here is related to the backups feature, as you can see in the screenshot. Have a look at the docs: https://docs.jabref.org/advanced/autosave#where-can-i-find-the-backup-files. You can trigger the backup dialogue, if I am not mistaken, by

1. creating a library (the .bib file) with entries
2. then saving this library and closing JabRef
3. modifying your .bib file outside JabRef with a text editor (e.g. changing the title of an entry)
4. Starting JabRef and opening the library.

[HoussemNasri]

then saving this library and closing JabRef

You don't need to close JabRef at step 2. This way, it will trigger the change resolver dialog, which is used by the backup dialog to merge changes from backup.

I'm new to working on open-source repos like this, so some suggestions on where to get started would also be appreciated.

In addition, to what ThiloteE has already said, this is the class that you need to change. The idea is to synchronize the vertical scroll bar of the entry preview (and BibTeX source code preview) of the original entry and the modified entry. I also encourage you to read the JavaDoc of the ScrollPane class.

[koppor]

BibTeX source synch is still open (see #10587 (comment) for details)