Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 78400
Paragraph background color icon should remember and apply the last selected color
Last modified: 2017-05-20 11:31:40 UTC
Hello: This is in general for all OOo UI, for instance, when I change the font color to some text on Calc or Writer, with the tool button (on format bar) it works, but when I select another text to do the same with the same color I have to re-select again the color, because the button change its appeareance to the selected text's color not maintaining the last selected color and if I wanna change, then I push the button's right-arrow to re-select. This behavior is the same for all toolbar buttons that have a right arrow, so the productivity is less, we have to re-select and re-select, OO don´t maintain the last characteristic (color, border, etc) always change to the characteristic of the selected text or area. In Calc the border tool button has a little arrow in its right side, but when I try to push the arrow is the same as if I push the button, worst, when you pass the cursor over that tool button the button and its arrow shows the border of them as a one thing and not as two parts (button and its arrow as you can see into the attached image), the same for background color in writer. Thanks.
Created attachment 45880 [details] onMouseOver don´t show the arrow button
MRU->ES: this is about our toolbar handling, please care about it, though it may be framework...
I am a little worried. Expected behaviour of "Change text colour button (Writer): When I change the colour of some text (from black to green, for example), the "new colour selection" should remain, and another marked text should be changed to green again without necessity to select "green" again. I tried with 2.2.1, but it did not work as expected, I had to select my "new colour green" every time again. I tried with 2.0.2., and it DID work as expected, my "new colour selection" remained valid for all further changes 8pls see my little movie). But when I tried 2.2.1 again, to my surprise now it worked as in 2.0.2, the behavior had changed to the behaviour of 2.0.2. Strange!
Created attachment 48148 [details] movie showing behaviour as expected
Currently I am not sure, but may be I wrote some nonsense. I can not reproduce the (reported) "problem" with the _character_ colour at all, may be I tested the character _background_ with 2.2.1?
I observed now that the problem occur sometimes (I tried to capture an animation to show the problem but unsuccessfully). The button at first hand open the color palette (for font color or background color) after, the button works but sometimes the last color is lost, then the button act like the arrow, opening the color palette, this is more frecuent in background color button and in Calc for border is always, the button act like arrow. So is a condition that when the last color or selection is lost (return to the default value because I select another area or do something) the button act like the arrow (a desired behavior as I can see) but fail sometimes because lost the last selection, the problem is after the selection. I work in OO 2.2.1 for Windows (Win XP SP2). If I can capture an animation I'm going to send to you the movie with the strange behaviour. Thanks
I'm testing OOo 3 beta, and the issue is present again but only in background color of writer and font color and background color on Calc. I haven't test on Draw and impress, but I suppose that they have the same problem. The behavior on font text on writer is as I need so, when I wanna change the text color I select the text and open the pallette and select the color I want then text is colored. If I select another or the same text, the last color is always present and showed in the button (the line below icon on the tool button). In the other color buttons it doesn't happens, always the indicator (the line bellow the icon) change to the actual color value of the selected text, cell or background, as is expected but for highlighting. About the arrow in the right of that kind of tool buttons works as expected, if no color or default it shows the palette, but if it has a colored text button applies the color and the arrow shows the palette, of course this only happens on txt color button on writer, because is the only one that works. Please confirm the issue.
After some tests I only see an inconsisteny in the Paragraph background color button. Common behavior: 1. when no color as been changed, click on a color icon 2. the color palette shows up 3. choose a color 4. the chosen color appears on the icon 5. from now on, the palette won't appear with a simple click, the last color is directly applied instead. The paragraph background color button always bhaves 1-3. At 4, it's not the last color but the current color at cursor which is shown. At 5, the palette appears again like in 2. Sum up: The paragraph background color icon should behave like 1.-5.
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