Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 68938
selections made using the left mouse button + CTRL key vanish when click on selected cell
Last modified: 2017-05-20 11:13:54 UTC
Hi. - please open a spreadsheet - hold down the left mouse button (lmb) - move the mouse - release the lmb (or hold down SHIFT, press cursor keys, release SHIFT) Now we have a common selection of a few cells. - hold down the lmb over the selection and note that the selection can be moved with the mouse - release the lmb -------------------------- now... - hold down CTRL - click into cell A1 - click into cell A2 - click into cell A3 - click into cell A4 - release CTRL - hold down the lmb over the selection: Now the selection vanishes! Although we have a rectangular, continuous selection like in the steps we did first. So the selection cannot be moved. Found on StarOffice 8 Product Update 3 rev. 2 under OpenSUSE Linux 10.1.
I checked with "2.0.2 German version WIN XP: [680m5(Build9011)]", "1.1.4 (German) WIN XP: [645m52 (Build 8824)]" and I discussed this and an other drag and drop effect with norbert2 yesterday You can mark those cell areas in diferent ways, the result looks identical, but the behaviour will be different. Steps to reproduce 1. open 'test.ods' 2. mark A1:D1 by clicking into A1 and moving mosepointer to D1 3. disengage left mousebutton 4. Click into B1 highlighted area A1:D1 remains highlighted 5. leave mouse button pushed and move mousepointer to row 20 Result as expected: Contents of A1:D1 will be moved to row 20 You will get the same result if you mark A1:D1 b< click into A1 and then click into D1 with pressed <shift> key in step 2. Now second test: 12. mark A1 by clicking into A1 13. press <cntrl> key 14. Click into B1 15. Click into C1 16. Click into D1 17. disengage <cntrl> key Result: A1:D1 is highlighted, looks as after step 3 18. Click into B1 expected: highlighting remains for further action actual: highlighted vanishes The behaviour in step 18. is unexpected, highlighting should remain When I click into a selection until Mousepointer will be disengaged after that click. The unexpected effect disappears, if you click isth pressed <shift> into the higlighted area in a step 17a. You can see such expected behaviour in 'test.odt_. 21. doubliclick on word "This" 22. <cntrl> 23. Doubleclick on "sentence" 24. Doubleclick on "want" 25 .disengage <cntrl> 26. click on "sentence" as expected, highlighted remains 27. disengage left mouse button as expected, highlighted disappears. (28.) If you did not do step 27, you can now drag all highlighted words to the line below. I do not know whether there is any general UI guidline for this.
Created attachment 38763 [details] Testkit for "comments from rainerbielefeld Thu Aug 24 22:46:51 -0700 2006"
(If I only select one single cell by holding down CTRL while left-clicking into the focused cell, the selection does not vanish when trying to move.)
Hi Niklas, possible for 2.x ? Frank
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