Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 17249
style box becomes permanently embedded
Last modified: 2013-08-07 15:12:27 UTC
1. Open a spreadsheet 2. Open another spreadsheet but this time open a CSV 3. Ensure that the CSV is the active window and ensure that the stylist is on screen 4. Press Ctrl-W to close the window The window does close but the stylist turns from a normal window to an anchored window with the little pin icon on it. Regardless of the state of the pin (stick or floating) the anchored stylist will not detach to become a normal window. Restarting OpenOffice does not help, this window is permanently attached. The workaround: With a bit of directory copying and diffing I found that the file user/registry/data/org/openoffice/Office/Views.xcu is responsible for this setting. I just deleted it and restarted OpenOffice and the stylist window is back to normal. Incidentally, although this particular behaviour is a bug, the ability to dock the stylist window would be very nice :-)
CSV opening is a red herring, doesn't seem to make any difference what sort of file is open -- the windows still becomes anchored.
I could not reproduce this problem. Please give me some information about your Linux distribution and the used window manager. Docking the stylist is an allready implemented feature. Just hold the STRG- key and move the stylist to the right or left windowborder. To reset this docking simply hold the STRG-key and make a doubleclick on the stylist.
Your ctrl-double click suggestion removes the need for my workaround and also makes my request to enable that feature redundant. Thanks. This also lowers the serverity of this bug I think, as when it occurs it does not need a stop/start of openoffice to fix. I still get this problem in RC2, the updated steps to reproduce: 1. File->New->Spreadsheet 2. Ensure stylist is visible 3. Ctrl-N (creates another blank spreadsheet) 4. Ensure stylist is visible 5. Ctrl-W (closes the second spreadsheet but docks the stylist window) Note that the the Ctrl-W is important. Using the File->Close command does not exhibit this fault. My setup is debian testing using icewm-1.2.7-2, kernel 2.4.21, libc-2.3.1-16
Reproduced with windowmanager ICEWM on SUSE
After several tries I got a crash on RedHat9 with Gnome and now I'm able to reproduce it there also.
cannot reproduce in 1.1.2; please try and either close or show me a method (and host) for reproduction.
still reproducible on oc-3109. Drop me a note when you want to try remotly.
reassigned to development
Because of limited resource for OOo2.0, it was decided to shift this tasks to the next milestone. If somebody will be found, who can implement this until OOo2.0, then this tasks will be re-targeted.
Bug not reproducible in Windows XP Pro. System: XP Pro w/ SP2 P4 2.6GHz 1 GB RAM 80 GB Harddrive Open Office v1.1.2
Sorry. Also meant to say I followed the steps listed in the original post.
A couple of people have asked for replication steps. Here are steps, on a Windows 2000 system running OO 1.1.2 1. Create a new spreadsheet document. 3. Format | Stylist --> the Cell Styles window appears 4. If the Cell Styles window is in the middle of the screen, move it to the right so that part of it extends outside the spreadsheet window. (If the spreadsheet window takes up the full screen, this step moves the Cell Styles window partially off the screen.) 5. Open a new spreadsheet 6. Ctrl-W to close the spreadsheet 7. Notice that the Cell Styles window has just docked on the right side of the Calc window. Notes: (a) If I do the steps above when the Cell Styles window is positioned in the middle of the spreadsheet window rather than partially off it, the bug does not replicate. (b) The bug does not replicate if the Cell Styles window is positioned to the left (and edging off the window to the left) or at the bottom rather than to the right.
not reproducible in DEV300m83, tested mac and linux
could not reproduce anymore. Please retry with the latest build. If the problem still exists please reopen this issue
worksforme -> closed