Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 6716
UI action results in counter intuitive document display position
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:41:26 UTC
Action makes document display position jump to where the text insert cursor is located. File|Save and Nonprinting characters On/Off toolbar button triggers this. Not a bug, but counter intuitive. Reproduce: Open a document with multiple pages, set the text insert cursor on a line on the last page of the document. Scroll with scroll bar to see the first page in the document. Perform one of the actions mentioned above. Suddenly you see a different part of the document, which is not anticipated. It results in extra work requred to find the last seen position in the document.
*** Issue 6715 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
This really kills me. I just dicovered that the display position jumps to text insert position after auto-save of document as well. So I as a user can sit and read a document I currently edit, and the suddenly a different page is displayed. I now perceive this "feature" as something very close to a defect.
Reassigned to Bettina.
I know that problem and tested again as described by reporter. I can reproduce the problem with 1.0.3.1.german version WIN98SE The problem seems to be solved in 1.1.beta2, there it is WFM. Can someone please confirm that that is solved in 1.1beta2? Rainer
Problem still present, OO 1.1beta2 english, Windows ME norwegian. Must use scroll bars, will not occure if moving with PgDn/PgUp keys.
I additionally tested 1.1 Beta2 german version WIN98SE and can only confirm my comments from 2003-06-25 00:03 PDT: WFM! It is clear that PgDn/PgUp does not cause the reported effect , because PgDn/PgUp moves the cursor. Please also see that the problem is reproducible for me with 1.0.3.1. Funny thing! Rainer
With additional hints, which I received from the reporter, I found out: A part of the problem has been solved in 1.1beta2, as I described in Comments From RainerBielefeld 2003-06-25 00:03 PDT Here first some steps to make a test for this solved Problem 1. Open a xxx.sxw with several pages. 2. goto the end of the document 3. place the cursor (by mouseclick) into the last line of the document 4. Insert a 'blank' 5. scroll (with scrollbar) to the top of the document. 6. press the "save"-button expected (as in 1.1 Beta2): Document will be saved, nothing else actual in 1.0.3.1: Document will be saved, and the view on the document jumps from the top to the end (where the cursor still was) Now the problem that still exists in 1.1 Beta2. To reproduce the problem, yo must do any step _exactly_ as described! 1. Open OOo 1.1Beta2 2. New Text document 3. Enter some text (only one line) 4. <Enter> very often, so that you create many new lines and some new pages 5. Enter Text "last line" 6. scroll with scrollbar to the top of the document, so that you see your first line 7. Menu 'File-SaveAs-Texdocument' (.txt) 8. Enter Name "Y" 9. <Enter> expected: Document will be saved, nothing else actual: Document will be saved, and the view on the document jumps from the top to the end (where the cursor still was) The interesting thing is, that the view on the document will not jump, if you try to save as Writer-Document (.sxw). I did not test what happens if I save the file as .rtf, .doc or some other. Here another possibility to reproduce the problem, which I received from reporter: To make sure we do exactly the same for test: 1. Start | Programs | OpenOffice.org 1.1 | Text Document No other OO softw prev. in memeory. 2. Open file (.txt or .doc) both shows problem here 3. Leave cursor on first page while scrolling down a few pages with scroll bar. 4. File | Save as... choose new name for file. 5. As soon as save op. is complete, my screen shows first page of document with cursor on it. So I changed: 1.0.0 to 1.1 Beta2 Unconfirmed to NEW P3 to P4 Question: can we say "all OS"? CU Rainer
This issue might be related to issue 16376 Rainer
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