<html> <head> <base href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/"> </head> <body> <div> <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_UNCONFIRMED " title="UNCONFIRMED - Typing in a list box to select an item results in chaos" href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108531#c3">Comment # 3</a> on <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_UNCONFIRMED " title="UNCONFIRMED - Typing in a list box to select an item results in chaos" href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108531">bug 108531</a> from <a class="email" href="mailto:BridgeportContractor@gmail.com" title="Howard Johnson <BridgeportContractor@gmail.com>"> Howard Johnson</a> <pre>(In reply to Alex Thurgood from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=108531#c2">comment #2</a>) > Well, this seems to work mostly for me, depending on how fast I type the > subsequent letters ... Thanks Alex. I have an accounting database I built long ago and have recently ported to LibreOffice. Every month I sit with my partner to help balance her accounts and enter what is missing. Every month I'm embarrassing at how badly LO works for production entry of items with list boxes. And I have to apologize to her for how long it's taking me to keystroke the simple entries just to lookup fields like category, or payment type. It should be quick and easy and it's not. I have to fight with the list boxes. Some of the fields I was able to convert to using a Combo Box, which works much better in this regard, but it is limited to direct keyed fields, and can't currently provide a solution to indexed fields. I know it can be better because the older version of this accounting software is written in Access, and it had none of these difficulties. And before that I used something similar called chex in MS DOS (yes that long ago), and it also had none of these difficulties. When you type in the first few letters of an entry, the LO List Box should do exactly what the LO Combo Box now does well: quickly select the item you want, and without any fuss. And furthermore when you hit the delete key it should delete the entry. This also doesn't work, and I've put it in another report. In reality the combo box has so many issues that I think a major face-lift of it needs to be considered. Perhaps we should just abandon the old List Box and start over with a new control, possibly called Lookup or something like that. And when you hit the backspace it should subtract from your keystrokes (to fix a typing keystroke) without loosing your entry so far. Now I have 40+ years of working with computers, and if I'm frustrated at this control, then somethings is wrong in how it works. I can only guess that newer computer users just see it as flaky. I can understand if we don't have the technical ability (and/or the man power) do do this work right now, but that's not the question on the table at the moment. The question on the table is does this thing need someday to be improved or replaced? And if so how? I think we should begin with a list of all of the things that don't work well for List Boxes and Combo Boxes and lay out a solid plan to fix these darn things. They are so vary important in Base. I still can't get LO to build on my machine because of a bug related to MariaDB 10.1 and LO MySQL dependencies. I'm hoping that later this month when the new version of Debian is released I might be able to get past this bug and finally be able to Build LO, that is without having to walk away from my database. But even then I'm no expert in C++, but will do what I can to help with these efforts. :-)</pre> </div> <hr> You are receiving this mail because: <ul> <li>You are the assignee for the bug.</li> </ul> </body> </html>