Re: [libreoffice-users] Base: Changing & restoring (Default) font

Sat, 12 Jan 2013 16:28:56 -0800 

Tom,
I was able to multi-select the controls and change the font as you suggested. Using ctrl-shift-click also only selected the control, not the captions, however, I can see that getting tricky if the controls and their captions are all over the form, as mine are. If they were all in one or two columns, that would be easy. This procedure may be a work-around. 


Ummm.  Changing the default font is a "wish-list" or "feature request"?  
Not being able to do so sounds more like a bug or a slip-up to me.  
There is also the matter of being able to change back to the default.  
IMHO, what should be done is to enable the toolbar font styles and/or 
font selection when a control is selected.  They seem pretty useless 
otherwise.


Thanks fro the help.
Girvin



Tom Davies wrote:

Hi :)

Hmm, so perhaps an "Enhancement Request" (wish-list or feature-- request) might be a good idea with the request asking for the fonts to be in 
Tools - Options - Base



It 'should' be possible to select quite a few elements on a Form or Report and change various things for all those that are selected.  In Access i think i used to be able to select an area and any controls that were completely inside the area would be selected.  Any that were partly outside wouldn't be.  I think Shift click and Ctrl click also resulted in selecting more than 1 element at a time.  Dunno if it works and even if it does work i dunno if it actually helps.  


Regards from

Tom :)  







  

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From: Girvin R. Herr <[email protected]>

To: Tom Davies <[email protected]> 
Cc: LibreOffice Users <[email protected]> 
Sent: Saturday, 12 January 2013, 21:24

Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Base: Changing & restoring (Default) font

Tom,
I don't think I am over-complicating it.  Here is what I found:

   In Tools -> Options -> Writer -> Basic fonts,  I have "Default"
   listed as "Liberation Sans", Size 12.  (This is correct, for my Writer.)

   In the example Base form I mentioned, when I have no control
   selected (edit mode) , the toolbar shows "Default", "DejaVu Serif",
   size 12.    If I select a control the toolbar options are greyed out and in 
the
   control's properties dialog under "Font", it lists "(Default)", and
   when I click on the [...] button to the right to get the font
   selection dialog, it first highlights "DejaVu Sans", with size of
   10.  I am assuming that since it is highlighted first, it is what
   "(Default)" is set to.

These are three different fonts!
So, your comment that Base does not have a separate default font does not appear true.  Base does not seem to track the Writer 
"Default" font as its "(Default)" font.  Keep in mind, this form was created way back with an early version of 
OpenOffice, probably 2.4, so these font definitions may be embedded in the form file somewhere from then.  However, the form's 
"(Default)" font should be changeable somewhere, as is Writer's, since it can't seem to be changed in the Base form's style 
dialog.  I just had another idea and looked at the form's character style (no control selected).  There is a "Default" character 
style, but when I right-click on it, all I get is "New", no "Modify" option.  Weird!

In the "big picture", what I am trying to do is change "(Default)" to the font I want without changing each 
and every one of the numerous controls in numerous forms that I have.  That will be painful, as I discovered already on one form, 
which I will have to return to "(Default)" when I learn the secret of changing the "(Default)" font.  That is 
why I asked question #2 - how to return a control font to "(Default)" after is has been changed to something else.
Thanks.
Girvin Herr



Tom Davies wrote:

    

Hi :)
Are you over-complicating the default font?
Tools - Options - Writer - "Basic Fonts"
should set the defaults for most things.  There isn't a different one for Base. 
Regards from

Tom :) 
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     *From:* Girvin R. Herr <[email protected]>
     *To:* LibreOffice Users <[email protected]>
     *Sent:* Saturday, 12 January 2013, 2:28
     *Subject:* [libreoffice-users] Base: Changing & restoring
     (Default) font

     Greetings,
     I am running Base in LO 3.6.4.3.  In a form, I am trying to change
     the "(Default)" font without any progress.  I do not know where
     this "(Default)" font setting is located and the styles icon on
     the toolbar, along with the font window on the toolbar are grayed
     out if I have a control selected.  They are not grayed out if I do
     not have any control selected and then I can change the "Default"
     style font to another font.  However, when I select a control, the
     control properties dialog still has "(Default)" selected and the
     font displayed in the control is not the font I changed to in the
     style dialog.  Does anyone know where to set the font assigned to
     the "(Default)" font?

     Second, related question:  Once the control's font is changed in
     the control properties dialog to something other than "(Default)",
     how does one get it back to "(Default)"?
     The "(Default)" option is not available in the font selection dialog.

     Thanks in advance.
     Girvin Herr


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