Bug 32057 - Placeholder selection is fragile
Summary: Placeholder selection is fragile
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Formula Editor (show other bugs)
Version:
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3.3.0 Beta3
Hardware: x86 (IA32) Linux (All)
: medium normal
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Reported: 2010-12-02 12:46 UTC by Rūdolfs
Modified: 2016-01-31 01:31 UTC (History)
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Description Rūdolfs 2010-12-02 12:46:51 UTC
When selecting the placeholder in formula preview, it does not always select the correct placeholder in edit panel. This error occurs if the placeholder is selected in the preview before it the preview is updated.

How to reproduce:
1. in edit pane, write in {<?>} over {<?>};
2. in graphical representation of formula, select first placeholder (the first <?> is selected in edit pane);
3. press "2", the formula should look like {2} over {<?>};
4. quickly (before the formula is updated) in graphical representation of formula, select second placeholder ( ">} " is selected in edit pane).

Instantaneous formula updating would help remedy this bug.
Comment 1 Jeffrey 2011-06-20 19:59:19 UTC
I agree with Rudolfs. It seems that there is an error with a delay in formula updating. It seems that in the first case, when one enters 2 in the top box of the graphical representation of "{<?>} over {<?>}", the editing text gets exchanged with  "{2} over {<?>}". So the edit panel has shifted two to the right (2 replaces <?>, the difference between length is 2). Therefore, if you rapidly select the bottom box in the graphical representation, it will select ">}" because it is now in the position of where the original <?> began. This can also be verified that when you add another digit to the numerator and rapidly press the bottom box, the highlighted portion will be "{<?", which makes sense in the case of the bug, since the overall editing panel text has moved to the right by 1 extra digit.

Reproduced in LibreOffice 3.4  350m1(Build:1) on OpenSuse.
Comment 2 Björn Michaelsen 2011-12-23 11:33:57 UTC
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This bug was filed before the changes to Bugzilla on 2011-10-16. Thus it
started right out as NEW without ever being explicitly confirmed. The bug is
changed to state NEEDINFO for this reason. To move this bug from NEEDINFO back
to NEW please check if the bug still persists with the 3.5.0 beta1 or beta2 prereleases.
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Comment 3 Viktor Ostashevskyi 2012-05-31 05:19:57 UTC
Reproduced on LibreOffice 3.5.4.2 on Windows XP
Comment 4 José Guilherme Vanz 2013-11-02 22:19:57 UTC
Reproduced on master
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Comment 6 QA Administrators 2015-12-20 16:16:24 UTC
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Comment 7 José Guilherme Vanz 2016-01-31 01:31:54 UTC
This bus is not reproducible in version 5.0.4.2. I'm closing the bug