Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 42656
Context menu call (right-click) invokes options for the unexpected cell
Last modified: 2005-02-14 11:18:30 UTC
Another quick and easy one: 0) Just to be able to see the difference, add a note to a cell and leave another cell without a note. 1) Select (left-click) the cell with the note. 2) Move the mouse cursor to the cell without the note (or any other cell for that matter) and right-click while hovering over it to call its context menu. 3) The appearance of the context menu entry "show/display note" at the bottom of the menu list reveals that the presented context menu is that of the last selected (and outlined/marked) cell, opposed to the expected context menu of the cell that the mouse cursor was hovering over when right-click was executed. This is contrary to user expectation and behavior in other modules of current OOo (like OOoWriter) as well as of that of pre-1.0.x versions of Calc. It is hence confusing and highly error-prone, especially under regular working conditions. If this is intentional behavior in order to prevent unmarking of a previously marked range of cells, then make the righ-click respone act differently when only one cell is selected or when the cursor is within the selected/marked range of cells. In the case of only one selected/marked cell, the context menu should always be that of the cell the cursor "points" to when the user invokes the context menu.
double to Issue 18735 *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 18735 ***
closed double