Bug 68060 - Calc: Select-Copy "Marching Ants" animation issue across frozen sections
Summary: Calc: Select-Copy "Marching Ants" animation issue across frozen sections
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 42164
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Calc (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
3.5.0 Beta0
Hardware: Other All
: medium minor
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Reported: 2013-08-13 13:41 UTC by crxssi
Modified: 2015-02-08 07:20 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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series of documented screenshots in a pdf (138.22 KB, application/pdf)
2013-08-13 13:41 UTC, crxssi
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Description crxssi 2013-08-13 13:41:51 UTC
Created attachment 84009 [details]
series of documented screenshots in a pdf

Pressing <escape> does not clear all areas of the select-copy "marching ants" animation if the copy area was across borders of frozen rows or columns.

Steps to recreate:

* Create a spreadsheet
* Freeze some rows and columns (Window->Freeze)
* Block select several cells across on or both sides of a frozen border line
* Copy (^C or Edit->Copy) the area
* Notice the extremely annoying "marching ants" animation starts (which is distracting and wastes CPU, battery, and possibly network resources).
* Click elsewhere to see just the animation.
* Now try to stop the annoying animation using the <escape> key.
* Notice it will only stop the animation for the "frozen" area in which the cell location currently resides.  The animation will continue in the areas on the other side(s) of the frozen borderline.
* The only way to get rid of all the animation is to either click in every section and press <escape> in each, or certain other unintuitive actions.

It wouldn't be such an annoyance if the user had the ability to turn off this animation or if it at least timed out after X seconds.  ( See Bug 35077 )

Since this is a difficult concept to illustrate with just text, I am attaching a PDF with a sequence of documented screenshots to clearly illustrate the behavior.
Comment 1 Cor Nouws 2013-08-13 14:24:16 UTC
Hi issxrc,

Thanks, I can confirm this.
Behaviour is here since ... guess somewhere 3.4/3.5
Best,
Cor
Comment 2 crxssi 2013-09-24 16:07:57 UTC
Surprise, seems there was already a bug report on this an eternity ago....

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 42164 ***