On 25.09.2016 20:50, Ricardo wrote: > El 2016-09-25 20:07, Dave escribió: >> Can someone tell me what Writer defines as "Objects"? The term seems to >> be loosely and often inaccurately used in menus and the "Help" facility. >> >> For example, drawing items appear to be defined a "Objects", but then so >> do frames. >> >> According to the "Help" facility: >> "Objects;Definition >> An object is a screen element containing data. It can refer to >> application data, such as text or graphics. >> Objects are independent and do not influence each other. Any object >> containing data can be assigned certain commands. For example, a graphic >> object has commands for image editing 8<-- snip -->8 ." >> >> A totally inaccurate and contradictory "garbled" statement in itself. >> >> In the "Help" facility, the "Selecting;Objects" section also makes >> totally false, inaccurate and meaningless claims about selecting and >> grouping *ALL* those things claimed to be "Objects". >> >> AFAICT the only genuine Writer "Objects" are "Drawing Objects". Does >> anyone know of any other genuine Writer "Objects"? > > Math objects are "valid" as well. You can also insert a Calc table on > a Writer document, for example, in which case it will be an object. It > is also possible to insert a "Writer object" into Draw. > > Frames can be considered as objects in part because they can display > the content of external documents: this is how master documents work. > > A common feature of all objects is that when you try to manipulate > their content the "parent" program will open: double click on an > equation will open Math, double click on a Calc table inserted in > Writer will open Calc and so on. > > Regards, > Ricardo > >> Dave
Hi Ricardo, Thanks for kindly taking the time to respond. Having been involved with this software since Sun open sourced the Star Office code in 2001, I was already aware of the the things you refer to. However, you have overlooked the point I was making: We describe all of those things as being "Objects", but then in the "Help" facility "Selecting;Objects" section we go on to tell "half truths" about selecting and grouping *ALL* of those things described as being "Objects". <Q> You can combine several graphic objects into a group so that you can use them like a single object. </Q>. In fact the only "Objects" you can select and combine are "Drawing Objects". Not graphic (picture) objects, Math objects, Calc tables, Frames, or any other inserted objects. Regards Dave -- Please address any reply to the mailing list only. Any messages sent to this noreply@ address are automatically deleted from the server and will never be read. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
