Issue 1482 - Changing textarea using the ruler should show numerical size
Summary: Changing textarea using the ruler should show numerical size
Status: CONFIRMED
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Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: 633
Hardware: All All
: P4 Trivial (vote)
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Reported: 2001-08-17 20:58 UTC by burnus
Modified: 2013-08-07 14:38 UTC (History)
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Description burnus 2001-08-17 20:58:39 UTC 
Using the mouse to change the pagemargins in the ruler should (optionally) give
figures about the size.

Microsoft's Word does:
Press Alt while dragging:
___________________________________________________________________
|<-------5cm--------->||<---------------7·4cm----------->|<---3·9cm---->|
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------


An alternative would be to use an tooltip (as it is done for the page scrolling
("Page 1/5")):
___________________________________________________________________
| · ' · 1 · ' · 2 · ' · 3 · ' · ||· ' · 5 · ' · 6 · ' · 7 · ' · 8 · ' · 9 · ' ·
1| · ' · 11· ' · 12 · | 
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
                        [ 5 cm | 7·4 cm ]                         [ 7·4 cm | 3.9
cm]

In this ASCII art the mouse cursor is at the || line (and looks like <=>).
Whether there should be a second "tooltip" on the right margin and whether this
should contain both values, it the question. Note that this can be come even
more chaotic using a multicolumn layout.
Comment 1 stefan.baltzer 2001-08-24 17:06:05 UTC 
Rreassigned to Falko.
Comment 2 falko.tesch 2001-09-17 10:10:51 UTC 
Accepted, good idea.
Comment 3 falko.tesch 2003-10-06 11:20:30 UTC 
Using the mouse to change the pagemargins in the ruler should
(optionally) give figures about the size.

Microsoft's Word does:
Press Alt while dragging:
___________________________________________________________________
|<-------5cm--------->||<---------------7·4cm----------->|<---3·9cm---->|
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------


An alternative would be to use an tooltip (as it is done for the page
scrolling ("Page 1/5")):
___________________________________________________________________
| · ' · 1 · ' · 2 · ' · 3 · ' · ||· ' · 5 · ' · 6 · ' · 7 · ' · 8 · '  
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                       [ 5 cm | 7·4 cm ]                         [ 7·4
cm | 3.9cm]

In this ASCII art the mouse cursor is at the || line (and looks like <=>).
Whether there should be a second "tooltip" on the right margin and
whether this should contain both values, it the question. Note that
this can be come even more chaotic using a multicolumn layout.
Comment 4 bettina.haberer 2003-10-24 17:51:54 UTC 
Hello Oliver, do you remembers this theme we spoke about some days
ago, here it is again as issue. I think it is a very good idea. It
affects also Impress/Draw. Please estimate, if we can do for 'Q'.
Thank you.
Comment 5 Oliver Specht 2004-04-01 14:04:33 UTC 
os->bh: It is not possible for 2.0.
Comment 6 lars 2005-11-12 10:57:50 UTC 
I agree, good idea.


How difficult is it to add a tooltip showing the position as a numerical value?
Comment 7 bettina.haberer 2010-05-21 14:42:56 UTC 
To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on
my owner to the owner "requirements".