Thanks, I see where it's going now. Setting the font color in character styles has the desired effect.
As far as the paint-bucket icon goes, well... hey to each his own. When I see a paint bucket I expect to click on an area to flood fill it :-) . Jason wrote: >> - The document is mysteriously scrolled to the very last page, no >> matter what page I'm currently looking at. Michele wrote: > I cannot reproduce this behaviour with OOo2.4 under GNU/Linux: what version > of OOo are you using and on which operating system? Cor wrote: > Probably the focus in the document was at the end, and scrolling higher was > done with only scroll bars. Playing with it more, what Cor says is correct and I misinterpreted what I originally saw. IMHO, scrolling to the current cursor position when the font color is changed is a minor annoyance, considering that the "paint bucket" highlighting mode is not affected by the current cursor position. Is that appropriate for a minor issue report? It would be nice to see an additional tool bar button that changes the color of newly typed text -- all of the character options (font name, size, style, etc.) currently have equivalent tool bar commands except for font colors. However, there currently exists no equivalent of changing the font color from the Format -> Character menu in the formatting tool bar. Michele wrote: > The way the font colour tool works is not as you expected it. My expectations seem reasonable, though. Incidently, I found a number of issues describing exactly the same thing I described: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=36035 http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=65930 http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=61816 http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=60656 http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=62952 http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=89126 (applies to 3.0 beta) http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=78109 There are many others. Those also describe the toolbar inconsistency. However, it also seems that, according to those, you -can- use a toolbar button with a more intuitive effect (if you customize the toolbar there are two identical icons, both named "Font Color" -- one has the strange paint bucket behavior but the other formats newly typed text). I've replaced my toolbar button accordingly and now it is much better. It would be nice to see the behavior changed in future versions; when 7+ issue reports are created for the same thing it is a good hint that something isn't right. Jason --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
