Difficulty Selecting Fontworks Objects for Editing

[Lorinda]

I am having extreme difficulty selecting Fontworks objects in order to resize or edit them. To reproduce:

In a text document, go to View>Toolbars>Fontwork

Click the left-most icon on the Fontwork Toolbar

Select a Fontwork shape/pattern and click "OK"

When the Fontwork object appears, click elsewhere in the document

Now try to re-select the Fontwork object by clicking on it; 9 times out of 10 (maybe even 99 times out a 100) this does not work.

I've managed to select the object a couple of times tonight, but I can't figure out exactly how.

I've checked OpenOffice on both my Mac and a Windows machine at work, and selecting the Fontwork object is easy as pie in both of them. I don't have LibreOffice installed to check it.

NeoOffice 3.3. patch 2; Mac OS 10.8.2

[pluby]

I can reproduce this "unselectability of the fontwork object" in both NeoOffice 3.3 and 3.2.1 so I will investigate if this is caused by our code or if it is an OpenOffice.org 3.1.1 (the version that NeoOffice is base on) behavior.

Patrick

[pluby]

To select fontwork objects in NeoOffice, Command-click on the fonts in the fontwork object.

I found that this is the normal behavior in OpenOffice.org 3.1.1 and earlier versions and Oracle's OpenOffice.org engineers eventually changed the behavior in OpenOffice.org 3.3.

Patrick

[pluby]

I found out why you have to Command-click to select fontwork objects in NeoOffice: the OpenOffice.org 3.1.1 code initially inserts fontwork objects as background objects.

So, you can make a fontwork object clickable by moving it to the foreground using the following steps:

1. Select the fontwork object by Command-clicking within one of the fontwork characters (clicks between characters will fall through the object).

2. Right-click or control-click in the selected fontwork object and, in the popup menu that appears, select the Arrange :: To Foreground menu item.

Are you able to select a fontwork object with a regular mouse click after doing the above steps? Note that you still have to click within one of the fontwork object's characters.

Patrick

[Lorinda]

Thanks, Patrick!

Command-clicking works to select it.

And Arrange>To Foreground makes it "Plain" clickable.

Lorinda