Bug 56545 - Cannot directly position text cursor onto a blank line in text box
Summary: Cannot directly position text cursor onto a blank line in text box
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Impress (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
3.6.2.2 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) All
: medium minor
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Blocks: Textbox
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Reported: 2012-10-29 21:22 UTC by Marcel Samek
Modified: 2024-01-07 03:13 UTC (History)
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Description Marcel Samek 2012-10-29 21:22:10 UTC
It is not possible to position the insert point (with a left click of the mouse) on a blank line unless the insert point is already positioned somewhere in the text box.

If a text box has only blank lines and none of the lines have any text or bullets on them, you will not be able to position the insert point in the box again once it is deseleced.

To Reproduce:

1) Create a slide.
2) In the main body, hit enter to create an empty bullet item
3) Backspace once to delete the bullet
4) Repeat this several times so that you have several empty lines there
5) Now add one more bullet item, but this time type some text in it.
6) You now have several blank lines of text and one with some text on it.

7) Click close to the edge of the slide to deslect the text box where you have been putting bullets.

8) Try to position the insert point on one of the blank lines. You can't.
9) Now position the insert point on the one non-blank line... that works
10) Now try to position the insert on the blank lines, and it works.

11) Delete the one non blank line. Now you only have blank lines.
12) Deselect the text box by clicking at the edge of the slide.
13) Try positioning the insert point in the text box. You can't.
Comment 1 Rob Snelders 2012-11-09 21:25:15 UTC
Thank you for reporting this bug.

Confirmed with LO 3.5.4.2 and LO3.7.0.0-alpha on Ubuntu 12.04 x86_64  

To reproduce:

1) Open Impress
2) Create new Slide
3) Click in the main textbox
4) Press Del to remove the bullet
5) Press Enter
6) Press Del to remove the bullet
7) Deselect the textbox

Then you can't select the textbox anymore
Comment 2 QA Administrators 2015-01-05 17:51:09 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 3 Buovjaga 2015-01-20 16:04:44 UTC
Confirmed this is still the case.
Workaround: select the text box so the blue borders appear. Type something. Now you are able to edit inside the box.
Severity to minor because of workaround.

Win 7 Pro 64-bit Version: 4.5.0.0.alpha0+
Build ID: 07e84cae983c08afdba03018413a19d01abb3006
TinderBox: Win-x86@62-TDF, Branch:MASTER, Time: 2015-01-19_06:15:38
Comment 4 QA Administrators 2016-02-21 08:34:47 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 5 QA Administrators 2017-03-06 15:00:56 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 6 Thomas Lendo 2017-09-13 19:13:24 UTC
Still repro.

Version: 6.0.0.0.alpha0+
Build-ID: 33ead25229d308f98fa171412f2937ca0ba976e9
CPU-Threads: 4; Betriebssystem:Linux 4.10; UI-Render: Standard; VCL: gtk2; 
TinderBox: Linux-rpm_deb-x86_64@70-TDF, Branch:master, Time: 2017-09-13_00:43:03
Gebietsschema: de-DE (de_DE.UTF-8); Calc: group

My workaround is to find the invisible border of the textbox when hovering with the mouse. Then I clock on it and type something. Then you can edit the content of the again visible textbox.
Comment 7 QA Administrators 2018-09-14 02:46:04 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 8 Zineta 2018-10-29 12:13:20 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 9 Buovjaga 2018-10-29 12:20:41 UTC
Ok, let's close(In reply to Marcel Samek from comment #0)
> 8) Try to position the insert point on one of the blank lines. You can't.
> 9) Now position the insert point on the one non-blank line... that works
> 10) Now try to position the insert on the blank lines, and it works.

Still repro.

Zineta: I think you misunderstood the report.

Arch Linux 64-bit
Version: 6.2.0.0.alpha1+
Build ID: bfa6aeb379e5dfcf6f1f97b3365ab551995ab3d5
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 4.18; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3_kde5; 
Locale: fi-FI (fi_FI.UTF-8); Calc: threaded
Built on 28 October 2018
Comment 10 QA Administrators 2019-10-30 03:36:06 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 11 QA Administrators 2021-10-30 04:37:03 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 12 Luke 2022-01-06 17:17:59 UTC
Repo in Version: 7.3.0.0.alpha1+ (x86) 

I almost marked this bug as works for me because subconsciously, I used a double click in step 8). A single click selects the textbox, a second click over a blank area puts you in rotate mode. This is how it should work, so you can move or rotate the textbox.  A workaround is to double click over the space where the bullet was. 

Relaxing this a bit to work over a new line character is a good idea. But the rest of the line should behave as it does now. Or we need a new rotate mode.
Comment 13 QA Administrators 2024-01-07 03:13:00 UTC
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