If you move a glue point to the center of one of the four edges of your shape's bounding-box, and perhaps to one of the corners - it will from there on be covered by the shape's resizing handles. It then becomes difficult, or perhaps even impossible, to select that glue point and move it elsewhere or delete it. There needs to be some way to make the resizing handles disappear at least temporaririly to enable glue point selection from under them.
Yes, selecting of glue points needs to be improved. Other solutions besides (1) hiding the resize-handles could be (2) making the gluepoint larger or (3) draw the gluepoint in front of the resize-handle not behind. I like the idea (1).
(In reply to Regina Henschel from comment #1) So, while I like the hide-size-handles idea, I think that drawing the glue point a bit larger might be the easier solution, because it would not require changes to anywhere else in the code; and if one is concerned about precision in the glue-point drawing - one can always zoom in a bit. Drawing over the resizing handles would also be ok I guess, as one can always exit the glue point edit mode and resize.
Related topic, in the sense of resizing handles position being a problem at bug 162851, with different suggested solution
The shape/object handles become hidden if the focus leaves the object, and if Gluepoint functions are toggled on, the gluepoints are still visible - yet not clickable without activating. We could make the .uno:GlueEditMode a hard-toggle and prevent any object selection if enabled. The issue is rather that additional points on these positions are difficult to access. But it is possible (the gluepoint area seems to be a pixel larger than the handle). Sounds to me like much work for less benefit. And I disagree with an extra function to disable the object handles. My take: NAB/WF
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #4) > The shape/object handles become hidden if the focus leaves the object, and > if Gluepoint functions are toggled on, the gluepoints are still visible Yes, but that's not the point of this bug. Also, when one is editing glue points, the object is selected, and we don't want the user to have to deselect then re-select to check whether there are glue points. > yet not clickable without activating. We could make the .uno:GlueEditMode a > hard-toggle and prevent any object selection if enabled. That is likely irrelevant, since the glue points are added to the selected object; no selection - what are the glue points of? > The issue is rather that additional points on these positions are difficult > to access. But it is possible (the gluepoint area seems to be a pixel larger > than the handle). Nope. The glue points are (sometimes? often? always?) completely covered by the resize handle. At least with build: Version: 24.8.2.1 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 0f794b6e29741098670a3b95d60478a65d05ef13 CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 6.6; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: en-IL (en_IL); UI: en-US Calc: threaded will attach a screenshot.
Created attachment 197126 [details] A duplicated shape with two glue-points; one shape is selected Note how the top-center resize handle completely covers the glue point of the top rectangle shape.
The coverage of glue-points does not seem to be affected by zooming in or out.
Created attachment 197127 [details] Screencast Difficult: yes, impossible: no.
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #8) > Created attachment 197127 [details] > Screencast > > Difficult: yes, impossible: no. Saw the screencast - you have to guess that the glue point is there, and if you carefully play with the cursor then indeed maybe you can touch the point. I wasn't able to reproduce this. Perhaps it's because I was using the center rather than a corner? Anyway, it's beyond the abilities of mortals.