[Libreoffice-ux-advise] toolbox control / selection semantics ...

[Billy Charlton]

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.

- Billy



On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 3:26 AM, Michael Meeks <michael.meeks at suse.com>wrote:

> 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
> > https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=10864 .  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.
>
> --
> michael.meeks at suse.com  <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot
>
>
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