Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 68130
Radio button in "character dialog" when opened via "Find&Replace" needs a default in order to use the keyboard for macro recording
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:43:27 UTC
Currently, this is the situation (the following quotation taken from the help file, under topic Tab Order). "A radio button can only be accessed by the Tab key when the radio button is selected. If you have designed a group of radio buttons where none are selected, then the user will not be able to access the group or any of the radio buttons by keyboard." When I tried to record a macro, with find and replace, I find that in the Format-Position-Position box, there is no default value set. Because of that, since the Tab key is unable to access the group, there is no way of recording a macro to superscript a character, for example. My suggestion is that the default for position should be set to normal and for the rotation should be set to 0 degree.
Can you provide illustrating screenshot? Thanks.
Created attachment 38304 [details] No Default bullet in the Text Format(search)
"My suggestion is that the default for position should be set to normal and for the rotation should be set to 0 degree." On top of that, some other formating function may have similar situation, where no default bullet is set. Since the Macro recorder is unable to record mouse movement at this moment, and if we cannot access these bullets that without default with the keyboard, there is no way that we record a macro utilizing this function. Please look into it. Thank you.
Created attachment 38305 [details] Screen Shot 2
The other function that is unaccessible at the moment is under the alignment tab, under Text Format (search). See screen shot 2.
Please have a look.
Reassigned to MSC.
> Reassigned to MSC. why? Bye Marc
Unfortunately this connot be handled in a different way. The Radio Button groups MUST be without default. Otherwise it would mean for the search, that only text formatted with the "0° Rotation" or "Normal position" will be found; others will be excluded. Having default settings i this case would interfere the "Search" feature heavily.
Closed. Cannot be changed here.
mru, Your good point noted. So, for the sake of macro recording, is it possible to add a dummy button called 'no default' (or call it 'none') in these cases (and of course setting it as default)? Would that solve the problems?
Maybe, but I am not sure if this will be done soon. Reassigned to requirements.
I notice a more serious flaw in the current design. Once a bullet is selected in the Format-Position-Position under the Find and Replace function, there is no way to change it back to the default, ie, nothing selected. As mru had said, "The Radio Button groups MUST be without default. Otherwise it would mean for the search, that only text formatted with the "0° Rotation" or "Normal position" will be found; others will be excluded. Having default settings i this case would interfere the "Search" feature heavily." The only way to get back to the state of "nothing selected" is to close and reopen Writer, which is unacceptable. Thus, I hope that the option of 'all' as the default be included as soon as possible