Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 21518
Clic does not select the foreground item
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:17:58 UTC
When a draw item is over another draw item that is selected, clicking on the foremost item does not select it. It's unusual and force the user to deselect the background item before trying to select the foreground one. Clicking shoud always select the clicked item. To reproduce : 1. Open the following attachment (focus.sxd) 2. Click on the big green square to select it. 3. Click on the blue circle. It is not selected but should be. CC
Created attachment 10525 [details] sample file for the bug
Reproducible.
Reassigned to Christian.
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well, this is the usual behaviour and not a bug. One could argue that its not the best behaviour. What is user expirience take on this issue?
Actually, it always was StarOffice/OpenOffice behaviour. But this is not the behaviour of others painting/drawing programs, neither the behaviour of all other programs I saw. For instance, if you take Visual Basic (if you use Windows) or Qt Designer (if you use somenthing else), and that you draw a form with a frame and a button in the frame, then select the frame (which is "behind" the button), you can simply select the button by clicking on it, and without deselecting the frame. Attached a screen shot of Qt Designer. As the user experience is concerned, this is quite anoying in certain complex vector graphics. When you have several lines / symbols on the graphic and try to select one, suppose you don't clic "exactly" on the symbol (for instance an oblique line). OpenOffice then selects the background symbol, which is right. The user then must deselect this item before trying to clic on the line again, whereas its mouse is nearly on the line. It must therefore either press the escape key (eventually leaving the mouse if he's left handed), or move the mouse outside the drawing and clic on the bacground to deselect the item, then move the mouse near the line it wand to select and try again. In general, he fails a second time, and then he becomes less accurate because he's getting nervous. This is particularly true because, in general, the foreground item is <b>smaller</b> than the bacground one, and therefore quite difficult to select. By the way, there could also be a selecting mode that make the mouse automatically select the item over which it is or the nearest, with a modifier keyboard key pressed for instance. Whatsoever, the current behaviour is odd and neither "standard" compliant nor easy to use. CC
Created attachment 10561 [details] Designer behaviour on clic on foreground item
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