[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 107428] Overlapping textboxes interfere with correct cursor placement (comment 5)

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107428

Justin L <jluth at mail.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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           Keywords|regression                  |
           Priority|medium                      |low
                 CC|                            |vmiklos at collabora.co.uk
            Summary|Opening .docx gets textbox  |Overlapping textboxes
                   |at bottom not editable      |interfere with correct
                   |                            |cursor placement (comment
                   |                            |5)

--- Comment #5 from Justin L <jluth at mail.com> ---
Not a duplicate of bug 103978.

Validated that the zOrder of comment 1's LO_bug_in_bottom_textbox_20170425.docx
imports correctly.  (Installed MRI-1.3.3.oxt, selected frame, run tools ->
Addons - MRI selection, method getByIndex 0, property ZOrder.)

So the problem to solve from this bug report is cursor access to the textboxes.
There is a huge Text Box 1 (lowest zOrder 0) covering almost the entire page
that is grabbing the cursor - even if you try to click on the higher-zOrder
text containers.

I expect that this is an extremely difficult bug to fix. Lowering priority
because of poor document design.

CC'ing Miklos because of the bibisect, but note that comment 4's attachment is
an .ODT so that commit only exposes an existing problem. Removing regression
tag. (??Clue: textframes handles cursors better than textboxes/shapes?? [I
might not be using the correct terminology here.])

Revised steps:
1) Open the .docx;
2) Scroll to the bottom of the document*;
3) Click on the box with text [internal label = Text Box 3] and notice that you
can't easily select it. Instead, the cursor likely is placed inside the huge
textbox1. (You CAN select it by FIRST getting into frame-selection mode by
selecting the frame of textbox1 and THEN selecting the other textboxes)
4) Once in frame-selection mode, it is hard to get into text-cursor mode.
Double-clicking doesn't work.  Just starting to type DOES work - but since the
box is full, the cursor isn't visible.

*Note: true of all of the "inside" textboxes - nothing special about the bottom
textbox.

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