Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 17497
Macro recorder does not recognize mouse click to shift focus from graphics
Last modified: 2013-08-07 14:38:26 UTC
I wish to record the sequence text, insert graphics, more text with the macro recorder. The recording process runs smoothly, but the macro doesn't function properly, apparently because the click I use to leave the newly inserted - and highlighted - graphics is not recorded. Maybe this problem has some connection to the problem mentioned in issue 16158 ?
It is different in that the use of mouseclick is different here: The mouseclick here is needed only for deselecting the highlichted graphic, for this you click "somewhere" into text, probably right behind the graphic. Yet I don´t know whether the macro recording feature is supposed to record something like this as well, so I will set this to new and let the developers decide. Meantime replace your mouseclick by pressing ESC. This will work.
Reassigned to JSK
According to the OOo PCD i set this Bug/Enhancement to OOo Later Reassign to BH JSK->BH: Macro recorder enhancement, graphics layer
reassign take II
I am fighting a different manifestation of what is probably the same bug. 1. Start macro recorder. 2. Create a text frame. 3. hit "escape" (to work around the bug as described by pinkernell). 3a; great, so this puts us back in the main text area of the document. 4. Click inside the text frame. 5. Insert some text. 6. Stop recording. Step 4 is ignored by the recorder. One can't just insert text after step 2, because at that point the frame is selected and there is no insertion curcor inside it. As far as I can tell, this bug means that there is no way to create a frame programmatically and then programmatically put text inside it. (Well, what I mean is that I just spent two hours on the problem and couldn't find a way yet.)
Incidentally, this bug manifests itself in OOo 2.0beta on WinXP.
Hmmm... I see that this is marked as an ENHANCEMENT request. What I am seeing is pretty clearly a bug. Because I was only guessing that the behaviour I reported was related to the original report, should I re-file my reports as a separate DEFECT bug?
More or less same problem as n7dr. I tried for more than two hours. 1. start record macro 2. draw text frame 3. press ENTER, what de-selects the frame and places the cursor inside the frame, ready to enter text. 4. enter text 5. stop recording 6. run macro and realise that step 3 (and thus also 4) was not executed. Looking into the macro source shows, that the command is not recorded. Even inserting an "InsertPara" command manually into the macro does not help, it is not executed. The problem is, however, even worse. Trying to place the frame at top page centered, without - well, what's the English word for "Umlauf", no text on either side of the frame. Both attempts fail. The reason for trying to do that is to have typographical correctly placed graphics with discrioptions above (and not below), which for some queer reason cannot be done with figures.
To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on my owner to the owner "requirements".