[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 94223] Selection box for text box not shown

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Caolán McNamara  changed:

   What|Removed |Added

 Resolution|--- |FIXED
   Assignee|libreoffice-b...@lists.free |caol...@redhat.com
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 Status|NEW |RESOLVED

--- Comment #30 from Caolán McNamara  ---
lets give that a go and see if there are unwanted sideeffects

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--- Comment #29 from Commit Notification 
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Caolán McNamara committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/4b1a57e075af70135703e38337e1096b2f248ebd

tdf#94223 always visualize surrounding frame for active text object

It will be available in 7.5.0.

The patch should be included in the daily builds available at
https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More
information about daily builds can be found at:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds

Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.

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--- Comment #28 from Caolán McNamara  ---
I don't think the handles are really the core of the issue anyway, people want
the blue rectangle thing.

Taking the sub-case of the example in the comment #14 then at
svx/source/svdraw/svdedxv.cxx:1246 in SdrObjEditView::SdrBeginTextEdit we have
const bool bVisualizeSurroundingFrame(bTextFrame && !bFitToSize);

and in page 2 the second textbox that doesn't have the blue border has
bFitToSize set. If autofit is turned off then it gets the blue border.

Then taking the original document from comment #7 bTextFrame is false and it
doesn't get "bVisualizeSurroundingFrame" of true for that other reason.

As far as I can see, in...

commit fd069bee7e57ad529c3c0974559fd2d84ec3151a
Date:   Mon Sep 18 16:07:07 2000 +

initial import

we also have this special

if (bTextFrame && !bFitToSize) {
...
}

handling (FWIW I seem to have very old memories of having to play "hunt for the
border")

It's not entirely clear why we have that special handling. If we wanted to
treat all these cases the same then
https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/128025 would take the route-one
approach and they would all act the same.

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--- Comment #27 from Caolán McNamara  ---
Created attachment 177335
  --> https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/attachment.cgi?id=177335=edit
AOO 4.1.10

(In reply to Michael Meeks from comment #26)
> Perhaps Caolan has some insight on the merge ?

the merge was bisected as the disappearance of the handles and I seem to see
the same effect in AOO 4.1.10

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--- Comment #26 from Michael Meeks  ---
Perhaps Caolan has some insight on the merge ?
AFAICS much of our box selection, and double-click to-switch-to-rotation/shear
mode etc. is far too hard to use but ... hey ho.

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--- Comment #25 from Armin Le Grand  ---
This commit was developed for another code base, and not merged by me. For
complex changes like this, side-effects are to be expected; sadly I dont't have
the cycles to deal with all the fallout. Un-Ccing myself for the while.

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--- Comment #24 from Jonathan Buhacoff  ---
I noticed that I'm having this problem only with text boxes that are part of
the slide layout - title, content, etc. including clones where I copied &
pasted an affected text box to make a second one.

When I add text boxes to a slide with the insert text box tool, I do see a blue
border around the box when I click on it, and clicking on the blue border shows
the resize boxes. I also noticed that the action area for this blue border
extends a few pixels into the text box so it's easier to activate. This
behavior is just fine... I'm wondering why this good behavior doesn't apply to
the text boxes that are defined by the master slides in my presentation.

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--- Comment #23 from Jonathan Buhacoff  ---
I have the same problem.  Here's what is working for me now:

Step 1. Click inside the text box as if to edit it
Step 2. Click the "Select" action icon in the toolbar to make the resizing
squares visible
Step 3. Either use the resizing squares, or position the mouse on the invisible
line between the squares to drag the box

It would help if we could make the resizing squares always show up around the
text box while typing, and also show dotted lines between them to give a hint
about where to put the mouse to move the box. It would also help if the action
area would be larger around the dragging lines between the resizing squares,
because it's really hard to keep the mouse on it -- sometimes when I try to
click on the line the mouse moves just a little when I click and then I miss
the line, and have to start over with steps 1 & 2 above.

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--- Comment #22 from David Bapst  ---
This bug is still happening. I'm on Linux Mint 18.2 Cinnamon, with: 

LibreOffice Version: 6.3.2.2
Build ID: 1:6.3.2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1~lo1
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 4.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3; 
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI-Language: en-US
Calc: threaded

However! I think I found a workaround!! This works at least to provide outlines
to text boxes originally made in Microsoft Office Powerpoint, in files
converted to use in LibreOffice.

Attached find three screenshots. These are lecture slides. I am an instructor,
so I have many slides, originally made in powerpoint. The inability to select
text boxes by their borders, feeling around the slide for a cursor change, like
a man in a dark room trying to identify an elephant by touch alone, was a
little too tedious for me, so I sat and tried every command I could find.

I noticed that the text boxes from the original PPT had no border (see first
screenshot), and also (at some point) a tooltip mentioned they were a special
type of object. Hmmm, I thought. So I clicked around the Draw tab (I'm using
tabbed interface) until I found, in the Draw drop-down menu, the Break command
(see second screenshot).

Now, I know that that should be for breaking a shape up into its constituent
nodes and line segments. I can make an arrow and use break to convert the poor
arrow into a skeleton of itself.

But I use break on the Microsoft-created textbox, and it gains the magical blue
outline I wanted. (See third screenshot.) If I click away from the textbox and
come back, I can no longer return to the draw tab, but it seems to behave just
fine as a textbox.

So, it seems to have something to do with LibreOffice thinking some textboxes,
such as those originating from MS PPT, are more complex polygons, and the Break
command removes that property.

I hope this is helpful! This is my first entry to Bugzilla...

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--- Comment #21 from David Bapst  ---
Created attachment 155544
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Textbox is now 'broken' and has a selection outline, showing its perimeter.

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--- Comment #20 from David Bapst  ---
Created attachment 155543
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Location of the Break Option in the Draw Menu

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--- Comment #19 from David Bapst  ---
Created attachment 155542
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Libreoffice Impress showing no selection outline around a textbox, just little
blue squares that are hard to see.

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--- Comment #18 from Buovjaga  ---
(In reply to jenny from comment #17)
> Bug not reproducible in version
> 
> Version: 6.3.0.0.alpha0+ (x64)
> Build ID: 0f25a3c36f27fd51453b9a9115f236b83c143684
> CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 10.0; UI render: GL; VCL: win; 
> TinderBox: Win-x86_64@42, Branch:master, Time: 2018-11-27_20:06:55
> Locale: zh-TW (zh_TW); UI-Language: en-US
> Calc: threaded

This is false. It is still reproducible/confirmable.

Arch Linux 64-bit
Version: 6.3.0.0.alpha0+
Build ID: 9059457a1a8385cb80b5dd2c797cee77af4222a9
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 4.19; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3_kde5; 
Locale: fi-FI (fi_FI.UTF-8); UI-Language: en-US
Calc: threaded
Built on 30 November 2018

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--- Comment #17 from jenny  ---
Bug not reproducible in version

Version: 6.3.0.0.alpha0+ (x64)
Build ID: 0f25a3c36f27fd51453b9a9115f236b83c143684
CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 10.0; UI render: GL; VCL: win; 
TinderBox: Win-x86_64@42, Branch:master, Time: 2018-11-27_20:06:55
Locale: zh-TW (zh_TW); UI-Language: en-US
Calc: threaded

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   Severity|minor   |major
   Priority|medium  |high

--- Comment #16 from Aron Budea  ---
High/major should be a more appropriate prioritization considering it's a
regression, and we can't really expect users to fish around for the textbox
borders.

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--- Comment #15 from Armin Le Grand (CIB)  ---
With last document, 2nd page border is not shown inEditMode. It is shown on
selection (tab after changing page) and after ending TextEdit (esc).
Not on 1st page. Can be recreated with new Impress doc and two pages - due to
2nd page using Layout 'Title, content'. Seems to be related to that last
ObjectType. Creating an empty page (no layout) and/or adding a TextBox that is
not connected to PresObj in BG does not show the problem.

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Summary|FILEOPEN PPT Selection box  |Selection box for text box
   |for text box not shown  |not shown

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