On Friday 12 August 2005 23:04, John R. Hogerhuis wrote: > While I'm still working on answers to questions in response to my > original ones, I came up with a few more issues while using Scribus: > > I'm not sure what is causing it but when I Get Text into linked text > boxes after opening and closing the Story Editor on different boxes in > the chain I end up with portions of the text being chopped up and > distributed/orphaned between the text boxes, such that if I edit a given > text box the SE only shows the portion of the text that happens to be in > that box. But the only sure fire way to get text to reflow when I make > edits (i.e., add or delete text to an earlier text box in the chain) is > to delete all the text, relink the text boxes and Get Text again.
Should be showing all the text from all frames. > Am I doing something wrong? What I would expect is that opening the > story editor on any of a collection of linked text boxes should give the > whole story. Deleting any text boxes in the chain shouldn't matter... > whatever text boxes are left should inherit the story. So I suppose it > is possible that I'm mistakenly unlinking boxes or something... but even > then, it's kind of surprising that text gets orphaned in the box. As above.. works ok here. > If A->B->C and I delete the link between A and B I would expect A to get > all the text and B->C to become empty. Yes.. thats how it should work. > > Also: > > Undo operation doesn't seem to include edits made in the text box Not coded yet. Awaiting various other changes. > No autoscoll when drag-highlighting text and moving past the end of the > screen. Actually no autoscroll anywhere... if I adjust a text box size > by dragging a control past end of the screen it should scroll so I can > see what I'm doing. As it is I have to let the handle go and manipulate > the scroll bar. Not yet. > Select-all when inside the text box, text tool selected should > select-all w/in the text box, not all objects in the document. Also, > when the caret is flashing inside a text box shift-arrow keys should > select text, not move the text box. I'll consolidate all of these text > tool issues into one bug if I find it's not in the tracker. Works here. > While dragging out a vertical guide a spurious black line appears > temporarily on the display > > When click on the screen with the Selection tool a spurious selection > dashed-line box shows up on the screen and leaves a nice snail trail > which doesn't go away until you trick it into repainting > > I noticed that when I hover over a selection handle wanting to resize a > text box, that it changes to a double-ended arrow icon. But then when I > go to drag the handle I ended up selecting the foreground object. Either > it should let me grab the handle to do the adjustment, or it should > never have changed to an adjustment icon since the appearence of the > adjustment icon implies what the action will be if I start dragging the > mouse pointer. Control Shift to select "through" levels. Control-drag to resize/move an item you have selected. > Anyway I still plan to answer questions and enter these as bugs... just > wanted to cull my list a little bit and get some clarity first. Also I'm > a Scribus newbie so it may be valuable to devs to see what kind of > issues users (even a programmer like myself) have out-of-the-box. I > remember learning to use Quark, it was rough going at first. Some issues > I'm sure are just learning-curve stuff. Not all of its perfect now.. but things take time. thanks Craig -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20050812/095bc7fc/attachment.pgp
