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------- Additional comments from [email protected] Sun May 30 10:17:08
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This issue seems to start specific then get a bit general and confused. The two-
word summary doesn't help to identify the specific problem.
My take from the early paragraphs below would be that the issue is "A textbox
added manually can only be assigned a Graphics, not a presentation style and an
object created from layouts tab with a presentation style cannot have their
style changed"
The help page you see if you press F1 while in the Styles and Formatting
floating window says:
"The Styles and Formatting window in OOo-dev Impress behaves differently than
in
other OOo-dev programs. For example, you can create, edit and apply Graphics
Styles, but you can only edit Presentation Styles." and "Presentation Styles:
Show styles used in OOo-dev Impress AutoLayouts. You can only modify
Presentation Styles." and "Graphics Styles: Show styles for formatting
graphical
elements, including text objects."
This suggests that most of the observed behavior is by design (or at least as
documented), the exception being that there is no mentioned that a presentation
style cannot be changed to a different presentation style, but I think that is
perhaps implied as the layout window seems to be designed to provide
preformatted items, hence not intended to be changed.
Regarding other issues mentioned:
The reporter says that changing the presentation title style properties does
not
affect objects with the graphics title property. However again, that is how
styles should work given that these are two independent styles that just happen
to have the same name. Of course if one wants to mix the auto-allocated layouts
and manual elements it would make sense to have identically named graphics
styles to the presentation ones, and one would have to manually update them
both
to keep the styles in sync, which is clumsy IMO but seems to be the design.
The report then talks about the "update" button functionality. I believe this
refers to the "Update Style" button on the same Styles and Formatting floating
window. I found this works correctly in my version allowing me to update both
types of styles and seeing them applied properly so I think this may have been
fixed since Jul '09.
The only functionality I can see in that window that doesn't work and as far as
I can see is not a documented limitation is the "Fill Format Mode" button, but
that is trivial to workaround in the common case of updating one element as
double-clicking on the style will update the selected element. The "Fill Format
Mode" however would be handy for applying a style to multiple items. It is
possible to ctrl-A or otherwise select all items then do this.
Interestingly this also overrides the presentation style limitation above
changing all items including presentation ones to the selected graphics style
and seeming to convert presentation items to graphics items from there on.
Perhaps that is not intended, and it seems inconsistent, but maybe it is good
as
a workaround to the design limitation that seems to be documented.
I am using Win XP with latest patches and OOo-dev 3.3.0 DEV300m78 (Build:9501)
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