LibreOffice 3.3.3 OOO330m19 (Build:301) Ver: 3.3.3.1-5.fc15 Fedora Problem description: The shift click method of selecting text allows one to increase the text selection, but not to decrease it. This is not standard behavior, and will be annoying to MS Word users, in fact to virtually all computer users. This is a writer problem, and seems not to exist anywhere else in the program. Please, this is a bug and not a feature! Steps to reproduce: 1.Click in text. 2. Shift-click deeper into text for selection: Text is selected. 3. Shift-click even deeper: Text selection is increased. 3. Then, Shift-click closer to beginning of selection. Current behavior: Nothing! As if the expected behavior is disabled. Expected behavior: Decrease in selection, ending with latest shift-click position.
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Pretty old OOo bug. [Reproducible] with "LibreOffice 3.4.3 RC2 - WIN7 Home Premium (64bit) German UI [OOO340m1 (Build:302)]". Still visible with Server installation of Master "LibO-dev 3.5.0 – WIN7 Home Premium (64bit) English UI [(Build ID: 81607ad-3dca5fd-da627d2)]" It's indeed only a WRITER bug, works fine in DRAW text boxes and Calc cells. @Cédric: Please feel free to reassign (or reset Assignee to default) if it’s not your area or if provided information is not sufficient. Please set Status to ASSIGNED if you accept this Bug. - Reported with Bug Submission Assistant -
Since all new unconfirmed bugs start in state UNCONFIRMED now and old unconfirmed bugs were moved to NEEDINFO with a explanatory comment, all bugs promoted above those bug states to NEW and later are automatically confirmed making the CONFIRMED whiteboard status redundant. Thus it will be removed.
reproducible with LO 4.0.2.2 (Win7 Home, 64bit)
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reproducible with LO 4.1.0.1 Mac 10.6, 32bit LO It would be realy fine when somebody could address that since this bug is present long time and makes difficult every day work.
Reproducible in 4.2.4.2 and 4.3.0.0b1 This method works pretty well universally, very strange not to work in Writer Would it be easy to fix -> easy hack perhaps?
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Bug is still there, using ubuntu 14.04 with LO Version: 4.4.3.2
Bug is still there. Selection works OK with dragging: if you _drag_ and not _click_ the mouse, the selection can be both increased and decreased. Linux Mint 17.1 Version: 4.4.4.3 Build ID: 2c39ebcf046445232b798108aa8a7e7d89552ea8 Locale: en_US.UTF-8
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The bug still exists. Version: 5.4.2.2 Build ID: 1:5.4.2~rc2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1~lo2 CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 4.11; UI render: default; VCL: gtk2; Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); Calc: group
Still exists in version Version: 6.3.0.0.alpha0+ (x64) Build ID: 0f25a3c36f27fd51453b9a9115f236b83c143684 CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 10.0; UI render: GL; VCL: win; TinderBox: Win-x86_64@42, Branch:master, Time: 2018-11-27_20:06:55 Locale: zh-TW (zh_TW); UI-Language: en-US Calc: threaded
Martin van Zijl committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/+/31ba2a6bdecb81545d9b871a1a9394e5d7a3f2c4%5E%21 tdf#41202 allow decrease selection with shift-click in writer It will be available in 6.3.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Xisco Faulí committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/+/d21aab7de8766e9575682f7f20f6449dbc9639e2%5E%21 Revert "tdf#41202 allow decrease selection with shift-click in writer" It will be available in 6.3.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
code pointer: SwWrtShell::IsInSelect()
(In reply to Jim Raykowski from comment #18) > code pointer: > SwWrtShell::IsInSelect() Thanks for the tip. I just pushed a patch to Gerrit using this: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/102399. Click+drag of text, and shift+click to increase and decrease selection all seem to work. I still recommend thorough testing by the QA Team before it is merged.
Martin van Zijl committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/1675f5c0f600c817b0b9a0ab0a79ae32c43e5b93 tdf#41202 writer: allow shift+click to decrease selection It will be available in 7.1.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
A polite ping to Martin van Zijl : Is this bug fixed? if so, could you please close it as RESOLVED FIXED ? Otherwise, Could you please explain what's missing? Thanks
(In reply to Xisco Faulí from comment #21) > A polite ping to Martin van Zijl : > Is this bug fixed? if so, could you please close it as RESOLVED FIXED ? > Otherwise, Could you please explain what's missing? > Thanks Let's close this as RESOLVED FIXED