Bug 117425

Summary: Increase the length of the Name Box drop down menu
Product: LibreOffice Reporter: Ank <anklebitter>
Component: CalcAssignee: Heiko Tietze <heiko.tietze>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: enhancement CC: heiko.tietze, rb.henschel, xiscofauli
Priority: medium    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Crash report or crash signature: Regression By:
Attachments: screen snippet of Manage Names menu

Description Ank 2018-05-04 10:28:54 UTC 
Description:
Hi, is it possible to increase the maximum size of the Name Box drop down menu in calc or add a means for users to modify the value themselves?

The length is limited to 10 items before scrolling which on any modern computer is tiny and on spreadsheets with 10+ names is a bit annoying.

According to Regina the number is hard coded in the constructor of the class ScPosWnd in the file core/sc/source/ui/app/inputwin.cxx. Currently there is 11 (10 name items + item "manage names").



Cheers!

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Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:


User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:59.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/59.0
Comment 1 Xisco Faulí 2018-06-04 09:50:20 UTC 
Hi Ank,
Could you please explain what the Name Box drop down menu is and how to access to it?

I have set the bug's status to 'NEEDINFO'. Please change it back to
'UNCONFIRMED' once the information has been provided
Comment 2 Ank 2018-06-05 00:44:51 UTC 
Created attachment 142529 [details]
screen snippet of Manage Names menu

screen snippet of Manage Names menu
Comment 3 Ank 2018-06-05 00:48:10 UTC 
Hi Xisco, I have attached an image of the pop-up menu.

This shows what I am taking about more clearly than any description I can think of :-)

Note the menu is only about 10 or so lines long and non-adjustable, so anyone that uses Calc and more than a limited number of named cells, will be forced to scroll quite quickly. There seems little sense in having such a small hard limit.

Thanks for following up!
Comment 4 Heiko Tietze 2018-12-04 10:24:39 UTC 
Makes sense and I changed the value to 20.