Faulty handle position in shapes imported from MS Office

Mark Hung marklh9 at gmail.com
Tue Apr 9 09:27:38 UTC 2019


Hi Regina,

Regina Henschel <rb.henschel at t-online.de> 於 2019年4月9日 週二 上午7:06寫道:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm looking at https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115813
> "Position shifted while moving the handle of OOXML Callout shape".
>
> Unfortunately not only the Callout shape is affected.
> There are 106 shapes in MS Office, which have handles. 38 are OK with
> the current implementation and 68 have at least one handle, which reacts
> wrongly. These are only those from ooxml, not from binary format.
>
> The calculation is in method
> EnhancedCustomShape2d::SetHandleControllerPosition in
> svx\source\customshapes\EnhancedCustomShape2d.cxx. The relevant part
> starts about #1230
>
>
It's not clear to me what makes control point of Impress callout shape
attach to the pointer, and
what are the differences between the Impress one and the PowerPoint one.

Have you checked how custom shapes are imported already?
Relevant codes are in
/oox/source/drawingml/customshapes/customshapeproperties.cxx


> The relation ship between handle position and adjustment value is in
> most cases not direct but via formulas. For to get an adjustment value
> from a handle position you need to apply the formulas backwards.
>
> It might be possible to identify handles, which behave similar. For
> example some Star-shapes use the adjust value as factor to the radius
> with 0 in center and 1 at the edge. But other adjust values are used in
> other ways. I have not tried to find groups of similar usage yet.
>
> What to do? In principle you can get the needed operations from the
> presets as defined in the standard. But how to organize that, so that it
> can be done step by step and perhaps can be done by several people?
> And, of course, the code should still be readable and clear.
>

Kind regards
> Regina
>
>
>

Best regards,
Mark.

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Mark Hung
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