Issue 7572

Summary:	Text alignement in shapes buried in dialog box
Product:	Draw	Reporter:	aaime <andrea.aime>
Component:	ui	Assignee:	AOO issues mailing list <issues>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	Trivial
Priority:	P3	CC:	issues, oooqa
Version:	OOo 1.0.1	Keywords:	oooqa
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Latest Confirmation in:	---
Developer Difficulty:	---

Description aaime 2002-09-07 15:04:52 UTC

The drawing application sports the ability to align 
the text in shapes both horizontally and vertically. 
That's fine, but this functionality is buried in the 
properties dialog box, I think it should be more readily 
avaiable, maybe as a couple of grafical combo boxes in 
the toolbars (Microsoft Office has the ability to  
configure the horizontal alignement from the toolbar, 
but not the vertical one, Smartdraw shows a nice grid (3x3) 
with a button for every possible alignement... nice :-)

Comment 1 prgmgr 2002-09-08 06:57:28 UTC

Andrea, thanks for taking the time to share with us your suggestions.

Could you please list the steps required to get to the menu option 
that you mentioned?

Thanks.

Comment 2 aaime 2002-09-08 14:03:02 UTC

In draw you must select the shape, and from        
the menu select format, text, in the dialog       
box you can select text anchor as you like.      
For horizonal alignement, you can double click      
the shape and use the toolbar.      
What I think is that the text toolbar should be      
visibile even when only the shape is selected      
(alongside with the other properties like color,      
line style and width), and that toolbar should      
contain the button needed to control both     
horizonal and vertical alignement (Smartdraw     
has something similar to a combo that pops up    
a grid with nine buttons, one for each possible    
combination of hor/ver alignement. If you have    
a Windows PC I would suggest to get a trial version    
of Smartdraw :-) With and extensive pallette, ability    
to edit connection points and have infinite connection    
points on a number of shapes is one of my favourite    
graphical editor... unfortunately it runs only on Windows...    
If you need more info, just ask (and sorry for my bad english :-( )   
Ah, BTW, it's not a DEFECT, just an ENHANCEMENT (an usability 
issue, that is...)

Comment 3 prgmgr 2002-10-19 23:08:01 UTC

User provided good explaination for enhancement request.

Comment 4 wolframgarten 2002-11-06 08:41:57 UTC

Reassigned to Falko.

Comment 5 falko.tesch 2003-09-29 14:50:19 UTC

Re-assigned to MMP for his Toolbar spec.

Comment 6 matthias.mueller-prove 2003-10-01 17:23:41 UTC

A nice RFE. Can you please decide what to do?

BTW: The part on having all necessary toolbars visible is going to be
fixed for OOo2.0. Spec:
http://specs.openoffice.org/ui_in_general/toolbars/openoffice_org_toolbar_spec.sxw

Comment 7 ace_dent 2008-05-16 02:41:10 UTC

OpenOffice.org Issue Tracker - Feedback Request.

The Issue you raised has the status 'New' pending further action, but has not
been updated within the last 4 years. Please consider re-testing with one of the
latest versions of OOo, as the problem(s) may have already been addressed.
Either use the recent stable version: http://download.openoffice.org/index.html
or consider trying the new OOo 3 BETA (still in testing):
http://download.openoffice.org/3.0beta/
 
Please report back the outcome so this Issue may be Closed or Progressed as
necessary - otherwise it may be Resolved as Invalid in the future. You may also
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Many thanks,
Andrew
 
Cleaning-up and Closing old Issues as part of:
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Comment 8 bettina.haberer 2010-05-21 15:16:09 UTC

To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on
my owner to the owner "requirements".