Issue 7884 - Error while undoing the 'columns'
Summary: Error while undoing the 'columns'
Status: CLOSED NOT_AN_OOO_ISSUE
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: code (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.0.1
Hardware: PC Windows 2000
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: andreas.martens
QA Contact: issues@sw
URL:
Keywords: oooqa
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2002-09-25 04:44 UTC by Unknown
Modified: 2017-05-20 10:14 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Developer Difficulty: ---


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Description Unknown 2002-09-25 04:44:16 UTC
Here  are  the  steps  for  replicating  this  bug  :

1.Open  a  new  OpenOffice  Word-processor  document.
2.Type  in  or paste  some  one  or  two  lines  of  sample text.(Don't  slect 
the  text)
3.Select ---  Format ... Columns 
4.Make  the  'Columns'  field  value  to  3 (arbitrary   value).
[here  we  have  page  divided  into  3  columns]
5.Press 'undo'  button.

Bug  :

When  pressed  the  'undo'  button  for  the  first  time , the  text  in  the  
word  processor  vanishes , instead  of  undoing  the  'columns'  action. 
Thereafer  the  undo  button  gets  'dimmed' or 'disabled'  and  there  is  no  
way  to  cancel  the  'columns'  on  the  page.


Thank  you.
Comment 1 ooo 2002-09-25 15:35:24 UTC
What gave you the idea that this is an API issue?
Comment 2 ooo 2002-09-25 15:37:01 UTC
changing the component obviously does not change the owner :-(
Comment 3 diane 2002-09-26 16:56:38 UTC
Indeed undo does not undo the column formatting when it is pressed. 
Instead it undoes the typing of the text, one character at a time.  So
the undo feature seems to be oblivious to the column format change.

As a workaround, the columns can be removed by going back to the
format columns box, and selecting number of columns=1.

I performed my tests on OOo 1.0.1 on Win98.
Comment 4 diane 2002-09-27 02:17:19 UTC
oops! forgot to set the confirmed flag.
Comment 5 andreas.martens 2002-10-08 14:49:20 UTC
The number of columns is a part of our page template. Changes in
template are not "undoable" at the moment and in the near future. But
of course it is a good idea to extend the undo feature, so I'll keep
it as reminder.