Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 43842
Enable multiple Selection of Images in Writer
Last modified: 2005-03-11 11:58:45 UTC
You STILL cannot multiple select images. According to a bug issue I posted earlier, it was fixed - 2.0bc STILL has the problem. PLEASE fix it!
reassigned to sba mci -> sba: Hi sba, this seems to be a duplicate of issue 32493 or a "try of reopening"...?
confirm with m81, i am not able to multiple select pictures.
SBA: The "try to reopen" was justified... Please let me explain: In Writer, only draw objects can be multi-selected and grouped. This was broken and fixed along with issue 37891. I did not realize that issue 32493 ("You cannot select multiple IMAGES") was NOT a duplicate of issue 37891 ("Selection of 2 DRAWING OBJECTS") and thus closed it wrongly as a duplicate. I am sorry for the confusion. But let's leave the cosed issues as they are. I talked to OD (the developer in this area). Implementing multi-selection all kind of objects was indeed considered for OOo 2.0. It was dropped because of limited developer ressources for the given time frame of OOo 2.0. I don't want to bore you with details of the fact that re-working such an area (Use the drawing engine within Writer, as Calc does it) is far more work than "the outcome looks like from the users point of view". Summary: This one is (1) not a defect but an enhancement (2) a huge effort that will require a lot of developers time (3) a duplicate of issue 30523 (really! :-) *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 30523 ***
SBA: Closed.