Issue 25873 - If two spreadsheets are open, switching between them causes loss of input focus
Summary: If two spreadsheets are open, switching between them causes loss of input focus
Status: CLOSED IRREPRODUCIBLE
Alias: None
Product: Calc
Classification: Application
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.1
Hardware: PC Linux, all
: P2 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: frank
QA Contact: issues@sc
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Reported: 2004-02-25 18:24 UTC by jlaverty
Modified: 2013-08-07 15:12 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Description jlaverty 2004-02-25 18:24:14 UTC 
This is a description of the issue from one of our developers:

"If I have more than one spreadsheet open, sometimes when one loses input focus
it will never get it back. In particular, I cannot save it. Then the only
solution is to quit OpenOffice completely.  Sometimes (but not very often)
opening and immediately closing a new spreadsheet fixes the problem. This is the
single most annoying and frustrating thing with OpenOffice. Most of the time I
NEED to work   with several spreadsheets at the same time."

This is on a Dell 450N twin Xeon running Red Hat 9 2.4.20-20.9smp kernel, using
KDE as the desktop.
Comment 1 frank 2004-03-01 14:47:13 UTC 
Hi,

what is meant by 'Input Focus' ? 

With this description I'm not able to reproduce this Issue, so be more precise
please.

Frank
Comment 2 jlaverty 2004-03-01 15:23:59 UTC 
> Matias,
> 
> 	Could your provide a better written description of this problem for 
> OpenOffice?

I am working in one spreadsheet and have a second one opened. I click 
on the second one to make it "active", so that it receives input from the mouse
and keyboard (i.e. it gains "input focus"). In the process, the first one became
inactive (i.e. it lost "input focus"). Very often there is NO WAY to make the
first one active again. Even if I click on it, although the window becames
"active" in the sense that the title bar changes color, if I type anything the
text appears in the other spreadsheet. If I click anywhere in that "dead"
window, nothing happens. Sometimes if I open a third spreadsheet and immediately
close it again, things go back to normal. Most of the times, though, I am forced
to quit OpenOffice and loose all my work.

Is that better?

-- 
Matias Atria <matias@wangtrading.com>
Comment 3 frank 2004-03-05 21:10:53 UTC 
Hi Matias,

sorry for the late reply. Yes this description sheds some more light on the topic. 

For me, the only way to reproduce the described behaviour is to have a cell open
in the function autopilot and not knowing after sometime that I have it opened
in this way. So the FAP is covered by some other sheets and also the used window
manager will not restore it in the correct way. This is very seldom and I could
not reproduce it on a regular basis. So I will have a closer look on it but this
will take time. So please be patient this Issue is checked even if it seems
there is no activity on it.

Thanks for your understanding.

Frank
Comment 4 frank 2004-05-07 10:05:31 UTC 
Have to set a target, so OOo later
Comment 5 frank 2004-07-01 16:03:35 UTC 
Hi,

have tried it with OOo1.1.1 and 1.1.2 on different Linux machines using Suse 9,
JDS, Turbolinux 8 and Red Hat. I'm sorry, but I could only reproduce an slightly
equivalent behaviour if I have an Function Autopilot open in one of the
documents. If I try to change some values it's not possible in this case, but
this is intended.

Sorry for no better reply, but I have to close this Issue as worksforme. Feel
free to re-open this Issue if you can reproduce this behaviour. In this case
post a step by step description on how to reproduce it.

Frank
Comment 6 frank 2004-07-01 16:03:53 UTC 
closed wfm