Great, thanks very much! I already fired off the first build last night, and am now trying to get it to pick up where it failed. I'll find folks on IRC when I hit my next snags.<div> </div><div>- Billy</div><div> </div><div> <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 3:26 AM, Michael Meeks <<a href="mailto:michael.meeks@suse.com">michael.meeks@suse.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> Hi Billy, On Fri, 2011-09-30 at 08:39 -0700, Billy Charlton wrote: > So, my pet peeve issue is a Calc bug/feature request first filed in > *2003* -- and is in the OOo bugzilla at > <a href="https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=10864" target="_blank">https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=10864</a> . I actually > filed one of the 12 dupes around 2006. Heh filing bugs is great, but showing up to help fix them is even more impressive :-) the bug sounds annoying as you say. > I always wondered if there was some dark reason this issue kept > getting backburned when the project was still in OOo. Lack of resources. > Anyway, I've done plenty of C++ and UI development projects so I'm not > afraid of tackling it, but the codebase is pretty impenetrable for > someone just starting out on this project. Pointers welcome! Cool. So the first trick is to get a build, Linux is strongly recommended for that. When you've done that, poking at things like: svx/inc/svx/tbcontrl.hxx + SvxFontColorToolBoxControl and + SvxFontColorExtToolBoxControl the difference between which -may- be the cause of your issue, if you poke into: sw/source/ui/app/swmodule.cxx: You can see that some are 'Ext' control variants and others are not: SvxFontColorExtToolBoxControl::RegisterControl(SID_ATTR_CHAR_COLOR2, pMod ); SvxFontColorExtToolBoxControl::RegisterControl(SID_ATTR_CHAR_COLOR_BACKGROUND, pMod ); these guys have the separate drop-down vs. select it seems SvxColorToolBoxControl::RegisterControl(SID_BACKGROUND_COLOR, pMod ); and this guy does not. I imagine calc is using the non-Ext controls, and needs updating. As for saving the previous state in the ODF file, perhaps the best place to shove that is the settings.xml file; poke at sc/source/filter/xml - near the $ git grep VisibleAreaTop hits :-) HTH, Michael. -- <a href="mailto:michael.meeks@suse.com">michael.meeks@suse.com</a> <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot </blockquote></div> </div>