Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 29804
Add support to select an invisable object by mouse
Last modified: 2013-08-07 14:38:26 UTC
In writer,insert a draw object into a text documnet, set the line style to invisable and set the fill to none. Thus the object will get lost in the document. No way to select the object again. But in Microsoft Word, when you move your mouse over an invisable object, the mouse pointer will change and you can select the object by click any mouse key. Left key to select the object and right key will cause to select the object and popup the content menu. It sames that OOo's mouse events are base on the color of the clicked area. If there is no color, there is no dispose. So if you want to select an object you have to click the visable parts of the object but not the effect area of the object. It's hard to use and will cause problem as this unable to select invisable object.
At the moment it is only possible to select invisible objects via "capture" tool. This is not very intuitive at all. This should be improved.
AW->MRU: In Draw/Impress You may use TAB, CTRL-A or capture frame. In SW You can use the capture frame or the selector in the top-right scrollbar to move through the draw objects. If You really want the mouse to support that, too, please send again. This will need to be added separately to SW, SC and Draw/Impress, since that's an application task.
-> windly: Well, imagine you have an object 4x4 px big somwhere on the page. You'll spend a long time scanning the document and waiting for your pointer to change. You can reach this object with Shift+F5 if it is the first object of the page and then cycle with Tab if it's. I don't see the real need of adding a feature for this but let's see...
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*** Issue 103190 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
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