Re: [improvement idea] in-place editing of Input Fields in Writer

2013-02-15 Thread Oliver-Rainer Wittmann
Hi, On 15.02.2013 00:44, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: That's odd. I created a form:text-input field and it showed me an entry window right in the document where I put it. I could then simply type into the box that was part of my document. That is, in fact, what I expected. Hm... I do not

Re: [improvement idea] in-place editing of Input Fields in Writer

2013-02-15 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
On 2/15/13 9:31 AM, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote: Hi, On 15.02.2013 00:44, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: That's odd. I created a form:text-input field and it showed me an entry window right in the document where I put it. I could then simply type into the box that was part of my document.

RE: [improvement idea] in-place editing of Input Fields in Writer

2013-02-15 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Yes, sorry. I meant form:text. - Dennis -Original Message- From: Oliver-Rainer Wittmann [mailto:orwittm...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, February 15, 2013 00:32 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org; us...@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: [improvement idea] in-place editing of Input Fields

RE: [improvement idea] in-place editing of Input Fields in Writer

2013-02-15 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
-Original Message- From: Oliver-Rainer Wittmann [mailto:orwittm...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, February 15, 2013 00:32 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org; us...@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: [improvement idea] in-place editing of Input Fields in Writer Hi, On 15.02.2013 00:44,

Re: [improvement idea] in-place editing of Input Fields in Writer

2013-02-14 Thread Oliver-Rainer Wittmann
Hi, On 06.02.2013 17:39, Regina Henschel wrote: Oliver-Rainer Wittmann schrieb: Hi, recently I got notice about our (from my point of view) very user-unfriendly way for editing Input Fields in Writer. Currently, you can not place the cursor into an Input Field which in general is shown with a

Re: [improvement idea] in-place editing of Input Fields in Writer

2013-02-14 Thread Oliver-Rainer Wittmann
Hi Dennis, On 06.02.2013 19:35, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: For real input fields, (that is, form:text elements), direct entry works. I am not sure what you mean by 'real input fields'. I am talking about the fields which are inserted into a text document in AOO Writer by Menu Insert - Fields

RE: [improvement idea] in-place editing of Input Fields in Writer

2013-02-06 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
For real input fields, (that is, form:text elements), direct entry works. I assume that the case being discussed is for conventional field values that someone wants to edit. (Like a page number or a date field in a footer.) In those cases, I suppose direct entry might be useful. But there is