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Excessive zoom breaks functionality of left arrow button for variables in data explorer
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Description
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System details:
Positron and OS details:
Positron Version: 2025.10.0 build 156
Code - OSS Version: 1.103.0
Commit: 74261231013aba3599280cc235e255d77c7aa12c
Date: 2025-09-30T07:11:44.047Z
Electron: 37.2.3
Chromium: 138.0.7204.100
Node.js: 22.17.0
V8: 13.8.500258-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 25.0.0
Steps to reproduce the issue:
- In data explorer, zoom into (
Cmd++) until the right side of the application gets trimmed/cut. - Then, attempt to use the expand/compress left arrow button for a variable.
- Notice that, instead of expanding/compressing the variable information, it instead moves the cursor down.
Expected or desired behavior:
Regardless of zoom setting, button should work properly.
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Research direction
Start in the data explorer UI and reproduce the issue using Cmd+ plus until the application's right side is trimmed. Inspect the left arrow button behavior for a variable at that zoom level and verify that it expands or compresses the variable information rather than moving the cursor. Done means the button works regardless of zoom setting.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100