Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 17412
You will have to restart the program - over and over
Last modified: 2013-08-07 15:15:02 UTC
Editing text within a sub generates this alert with every keystroke
I could not reproduce this problem. Please be a little more specific and/or retry with the latest version (OOo1.1RC2).
The message arises when something goes wrong running a macro - eg invalid cell reference. The macro is helpfully visible at the line in question, but still in 'running' state. Any edit requiring a restart gives the alert in question - but for every keystroke! Thw work-around is to uncover the error message windowlet that reported the macro error and OK it. But it is tucked away behind the useful window.... Ideally, either: a) show the restart alert, and allow editing to continue while the first alert is unacknowledged (tricky?) or: b) show the alert once, to be acknowledged, then never again for the life of the hung macro process (but will the user remember...) or: c) popup a persistent notice rather than an alert, with the restart warning and a 'close' button the user can ignore if (s)he chooses. or anything else you can think of that makes more sense than one error message per keystroke!
reopened for changing
Hi Joerg, please have a look
Hi Dr Cowsley, can you provide a piece of code to help me reproduce the issue? We have a similar issue (14585) and i want to make sure they are identical.
Hi Joerg I'm running RC3 at the moment. I can't remember exactly what gave me the error condition, and in RC3 all the errors I can think of making lock me out (like my workaround option c) hence I haven't been able to get the message saying I will have to restart after this edit. I've looked at 14585 and it doesn't sound quite the same, but it's possible there could be a common underlying problem.... At the moment, this one looks like a 'works for me too in RC3' Chris
I can't reproduce it in RC3.
So I close this task as worksforme