Problem description: When you choose a special character from the dialogue box it closes. Steps to reproduce: 1. Open a document in LibreOffice Writer 2. Go to Insert > Special Character 3. Choose a character 4. Click OK Current behavior: The dialog box closes after inserting the special character Expected behavior: The dialog box should remain open just in case you want to insert another character after it. Platform (if different from the browser): Windows XP Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/535.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/15.0.874.106 Safari/535.2
enhancement
in LibO 3.5.0 beta is no button "Insert" in this dialog
This is a Writer feature request, therefore changed 'Component' to 'Writer'.
Not only Writer. In Calc and Impress the same problem
Have you tried clicking on more than one character in the table? With each click you append the character to the string below the table, and 'OK' inserts the whole string. It's different from MS Office, but not hard to get used to IMHO.
Clarifying the issue.
Setting this as FIXED.
It's not fixed.
The original issue is now fixed because there is a way to do multiple special characters.
Maybe this functionality can be made more intuitive, if the 'OK' button is renamed to 'Insert selected characters'?
Good idea.
A little QA housekeeping, setting to NEW from REOPENED The Special Character dialog has allowed multiple selection and insertion for some time. So, the remaining work for this enhancement appears to be a simple change of generic OK label to be an Insert action label. @Jay, @Kendy would you add this to the Design/UX slate for any needed discussion.
The dialog was revamped in bug 64302 and i can see the 'OK' button is now 'Insert' in master. Version: 4.4.0.0.alpha1+ Build ID: ad6d94009cf8ea526eb70bf1a07e5c6a21320f83 TinderBox: Linux-rpm_deb-x86@45-TDF, Branch:master, Time: 2014-11-04_00:14:41
Created attachment 108961 [details] Special Character dialog on Windows, from tool bar launch 4.4.0alpha1+ (In reply to Jay Philips from comment #13) > The dialog was revamped in bug 64302 and i can see the 'OK' button is now > 'Insert' in master. > > Version: 4.4.0.0.alpha1+ > Build ID: ad6d94009cf8ea526eb70bf1a07e5c6a21320f83 > TinderBox: Linux-rpm_deb-x86@45-TDF, Branch:master, Time: 2014-11-04_00:14:41 @Jay, are we talking about different widgets? I'm launching from the standard toolbar, is there another way to activate? On Windows 7 sp1, 64-bit en-US with Version: 4.4.0.0.alpha1+ Build ID: 3efc3cc5b0b4b6151e928c2348c7dc6f74181db5 TinderBox: Win-x86@51-TDF, Branch:MASTER, Time: 2014-10-28_22:16:12 p.s. Launch from Toolbar in current TB39 debug builds are having an assertion issue I need to unwind.
(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #14) > Created attachment 108961 [details] > Special Character dialog on Windows, from tool bar launch 4.4.0alpha1+ You should try a newer build…
Created attachment 108967 [details] the new dialog with Insert button Hmm, it is there with Version: 4.4.0.0.alpha1+ Build ID: b7d8a58ff2698ffc6e22943f64aa97c5ea253bd9 TinderBox: Win-x86@51-TDF, Branch:MASTER, Time: 2014-11-05_00:14:13 But seems like commit for bug 64302 should already have been present with the 2014-10-28 TB51 build. Oh well... On to other issues, sorry for the noise.
(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #16) > But seems like commit for bug 64302 should already have been present with > the 2014-10-28 TB51 build. Oh well... The git log is useful for these things ;) http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/log/cui/uiconfig/ui/specialcharacters.ui
(In reply to Adolfo Jayme from comment #17) > The git log is useful for these things ;) > > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/log/cui/uiconfig/ui/ > specialcharacters.ui Sorry, I think I had only been looking at cuicharmap.cxx in Opengrok and missed your commit against the .ui