Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 17486
Double clicking a cell to edit shows no cursor.
Last modified: 2013-08-07 15:14:13 UTC
Hi, Double clicking on a cell places you in edit mode. The only problem is there is no flashing cursor for the user to see. This works in OO1.0.3.1. To duplicate issue. Select File -> New -> Spreadsheet Double click on cell A1 Note there is no flashing cursor anywhere on the screen. Nothing to indicate what is happening for the user. Press right arrow or click once more and the cursor appears and flashes as expected. It does not matter which cell you do this on. I only used the cell A1 to minimise actions for the testing. Regards Kelvin
Hi Niklas, one for you. Frank
Sorry, forgot to set the some flags. Frank
accepting
*** Issue 26825 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Due to time problems this is re-targeted to OOo later
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This problem appears to be resolved in OOo 2.0.1. I’m running windows XP SP2 Build 2600 and have not been able to replicate this issue.
This is odd. I was doing some follow-up testing, and now I’ve ran into the bug. I double click on any cell and the cursor does not appear until I either click on the same cell again of hit an arrow key. I closed the application down and restarted, the bug is still evident. I was not able to recreate the bug the first time that I ran Calc after installing OOo 2.0.1. Sorry about that, I should have done some more testing before posting my last comment. This was done in OOo 2.0.1 running on Windows XP SP2 build 2600.
Is it possible to set a 2.x target for this bug? I think fixing should not be a big effort. This is such a bug that comes out on "everyday usage" and irritates some users.
I already have seen friends (who I have recommended StarOffice) searching irritated for the cursor after performing a double click on a cell.
Created attachment 47904 [details] patch to fix this issue & one German comment :-)
Setting the issue type to PATCH.
This is sort of a regression caused by the fix for Issue 14927, which unintentionally unmarks the current cell when the user double-clicks the cell. The action of unmarking also hides the cursor within, hence the bug. Looking into a bit, I then realized that the fix for Issue 14927 may not be the direct cause of this breakage but it may have just exposed the pre-existing condition. All I did was to return from ScGridWindow::MouseButtonUp when the cell is double-clicked and the edit mode activated, to prevent any other calls to be made within that method.
kohei: Thank you for working on this bug. Sun-developers seem to ignore such little yet annoying bugs being busy with implementing new features.
nn: Could you consider this for 2.3.1?
2.3.1 is only for the most important fixes. I added this to CWS "calc44" for OOo 2.4. Thanks for the patch.
Reassigning to QA for verification.
found fixed on cws calc44 using Solaris, Linux and Windows build
found integrated on master m239 using Linux, Solaris and Windows build
The fix does not totally fix the bug. The cursor vansihes after applyinf default formatting. This is Issue 88805.
*** Issue 80853 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Created attachment 73394