Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 89318
Find function fails to capture chars typed before search box appears
Last modified: 2017-05-20 11:15:56 UTC
For those of us with fast fingers, it is a common nuisance in OOo that if you hit Ctrl-F and then immediately start typing (before the search box appears), a stray character or two gets inserted into the document at cursor prompt. OOo should grab all keyboard input immediately after Ctrl-F is pressed to prevent this from happening. Worth noting that Microsoft Word correctly captures this input to prevent this sort of thing from happening.
Reassigned to SBA.
I can't reproduse this issue in OOo310m9 (PC, Windows XP) I tried to be very fast ;). I pressed Ctrl-F and almost the same time typed some letters. No letter was inserted into the document.
Was not reproducible on built OOo310m7 on Windows vista .
OpenOffice 3.0 is significantly faster than 2.4, which makes you need superfast fingers to reproduce this bug. Get your fingers primed: open OpenOffice: splash screen comes and goes: and then immediately hit Ctrl-F and start typing gibberish. At least one character will appear in the document before the search box appears. I am able to reproduce the bug in 3.0.1 on Ubuntu.
I saw similar effect whith "Save As" (Ctrl+Shift+S) or Open File (Ctrl+O), - When typing fast, some letters end in the document. (OOo 3.1) But this depends on the "system responsiveness" influenced i.e. by background processes or network file system. I can not see problems on a "slow" stand-alone PC (Pentium4, 1,7 GHz, 780MB RAM, Win XP, no network drives, moderate CPU activity). An application catching and cashing _ALL_ keyboard input away... Doesn't that mean overruling the operating system? SBA->MBA: When the system causes "whatever" delay, then the keyboard input should not be put in the wrong place. Please proceed, thx.
Reset assigne to the default "issues@openoffice.apache.org".