Bug 72266 - EDITING: problems with selecting single characters in a hyperlink with the mouse
Summary: EDITING: problems with selecting single characters in a hyperlink with the mouse
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 39015
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
4.0.6.2 release
Hardware: All All
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
URL:
Whiteboard: BSA
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks: Hyperlink Selection
  Show dependency treegraph
 
Reported: 2013-12-03 13:41 UTC by bordfeldt
Modified: 2023-10-21 06:34 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

See Also:
Crash report or crash signature:


Attachments
the affected document (12.07 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)
2013-12-03 13:41 UTC, bordfeldt
Details

Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.
Description bordfeldt 2013-12-03 13:41:01 UTC
Created attachment 90157 [details]
the affected document

I often use hyperlinks in writer-documents. Selecting these hyperlinks with the mouse leads in some cases to strange behaviour.
If I select a whole hyperlink with the mouse, it works. But if I want to select only a view characters within a hyperlink, sometimes it doesn't work, so the characters aren't selected. Sometimes in the worse case the first of the characters, i want to select, is moved and dropped to that position where I stop to hold the mouse button.
Operating System: Ubuntu
Version: 4.1.2.3 release
Comment 1 m_a_riosv 2013-12-04 01:33:01 UTC
Reproducible.
Win7x64Ultimate
Version 4.0.6.2 (Build ID: 2e2573268451a50806fcd60ae2d9fe01dd0ce24)
Version: 4.1.4.1 Build ID: 414ce1317b94ce49e6044b84baf237918e9a659

But it is possible to select with keyboard.
Comment 2 bordfeldt 2014-01-30 18:53:03 UTC
Problem stays in 4.2.0.4
Comment 3 Matthew Francis 2015-01-20 10:26:25 UTC
*** Bug 82700 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 bordfeldt 2015-02-27 11:02:22 UTC
Problem stays in 4.4.1.2
Comment 5 tommy27 2016-04-16 07:22:44 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 6 bowlins 2016-04-18 15:04:56 UTC
Still present in Version: 5.0.5.2 (Fedora 23)
Comment 7 bordfeldt 2016-05-15 17:32:02 UTC
The Problem still exists in 5.1.1.3 under Windows 10.

Selecting of only single characters is still not possible. But the effect of irregular moving and pasting characters disappeared.
Comment 8 bordfeldt 2016-08-03 16:12:38 UTC
Problem still exists in 5.2.0.4

The irregular moving, pasting ans deleting behaviour is back again.
Comment 9 bordfeldt 2017-02-13 17:58:26 UTC
The Problem still exists in 5.3.0.3 under Windows 10.

Selecting of only single characters is still not possible. But the effect of irregular moving and pasting characters disappeared again.
Comment 10 bordfeldt 2018-02-04 14:59:47 UTC
The Problem still exists in 6.0.0.3 under Windows 10.
Comment 11 QA Administrators 2019-02-05 03:45:48 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 12 bordfeldt 2019-03-05 18:50:24 UTC
The Problem still exists in 6.1.5.2 under Ubuntu 18.04.
Comment 13 Jan Kratochvil 2020-04-19 11:27:01 UTC
I think I made a duplicate but I find it better shown in my screenshots:
Bug 132150
Comment 14 WilliamBooth 2021-01-04 09:43:33 UTC Comment hidden (spam)
Comment 15 Anna Green 2021-01-18 11:03:46 UTC Comment hidden (spam)
Comment 16 m_a_riosv 2021-10-11 13:35:57 UTC
*** Bug 145073 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 17 Cassie Bender 2023-04-24 11:26:49 UTC Comment hidden (spam)
Comment 18 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2023-10-19 12:52:13 UTC
With gen VCL plugin, click-and-drag inside a hyperlink consistently moves the whole hyperlink.

With gtk3 VCL plugin, it is inconsistent: sometimes it selects text, sometimes it moves the hyperlink.

Version: 24.2.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: b83f069101f1e6d8aaac09a805f02bbc4c619e7a
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-AU (en_AU.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 19 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2023-10-19 13:51:41 UTC
(In reply to bordfeldt from comment #0)
> [...] Sometimes in the worse case the first of
> the characters, i want to select, is moved and dropped to that position
> where I stop to hold the mouse button.

That gtk-VCL issue was fixed in LO 7.1, see bug 116384.

I think there might be two issues tracked here:

- The inconsistent behaviour for gtk3 (which was a regression and got better since the fix in 7.1, but is still inconsistent in a current trunk build)
- The inherited behaviour of not allowing selecting a part of a hyperlink (for other VCL plugins like win or gen), maybe what m.a.riosv sees on Windows? This is exactly what the duplicate bug 82700 describes - and is not necessarily seen as a bug by some.
Comment 20 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2023-10-21 06:34:54 UTC
(In reply to Stéphane Guillou (stragu) from comment #19)
> - The inherited behaviour of not allowing selecting a part of a hyperlink
> (for other VCL plugins like win or gen), maybe what m.a.riosv sees on
> Windows? This is exactly what the duplicate bug 82700 describes - and is not
> necessarily seen as a bug by some.

Consolidating this issue into earlier bug 39015.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 39015 ***