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Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 6:49 pm Post subject: Two small bugs and how to 'squash' them!
I use NeoOffice under OS X 10.6.2, and just love its 'hyperlink' function … I use it to cross-reference my plethora of interests. But two bugs have annoyed me for a while:
1. If I use the indicated keyboard shortcut for "Default Formatting" - e.g. to clear unwanted links, the active page is minimised (i.e. placed on the dock). The selected text is returned to the default format, but I have to fetch the page from the dock each time. Doing this umpteen times in short succession gets to be tedious.
Solution: Record a macro and play around with Tools>Customize>Keyboard Shortcuts until you find a combination that works … in my case Shift+Command+Z!
2. If I have the NeoOffice pane at my preferred width (marginally wider than the open page), not all the buttons fit on the tool bars. This means that a tab appears at the right-hand end of each toolbar, indicating that there are more buttons available. It so happened that the Font Color button was one of those 'hidden'. When I clicked on it, instead of getting the floating colour palette - from which to select a colour, the existing (default?) colour displayed was applied.
Solution: Yeh, it's only little bit longer to click on the Font Character button and work with the Font Color selector there. But, if you really want to use the relevant icon, click on the Customize Toolbar option - at the end of the relevant toolbar, then click and drag the Font Color icon to a position that enables it to be displayed in the toolbar when the page is open. For whatever reason this enables it to launch the relevant palette
By the way, as a complete naif in matters of HTML / BBCode, is it possible to use the buttons above this window to format text as in NeoOffice? - i.e. select and click to apply? I think I've worked out how to use it with the "[]text[/]" technique - is that BBCode?, but it would be easier to just select and click … lazy I guess!
Edit by pluby: reenable BBCode _________________ "His hands were pure; but he had no hands"
Charles Peguy about Immanuel Kant.
Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 10:14 pm Post subject: Re: Two small bugs and how to 'squash' them!
GridLox wrote:
1. If I use the indicated keyboard shortcut for "Default Formatting" - e.g. to clear unwanted links, the active page is minimised (i.e. placed on the dock).
I think there's also another (hidden) shortcut for that other than Cmd-M; maybe someone else will remember it.
Even if there's not, you can probably save some effort (well, you have the macro already recorded, so maybe not ) by just customizing the shortcut for "Default Formatting", i.e. assign Cmd-Shift-Z to that command directly.
The Keyboard tab of the Customize window takes a little getting used to (and a bit of understanding of how the commands are classified), but start by selecting "Format" in the leftmost box of the Functions section of that window, then select "Default Formatting". Then in the right box, select ⌘M and click the "Delete" button up at the top of the window. Then scroll the list of shortcuts at the top of the window down to ⇧⌘Z, click it, and finally click the Modify button.
(Of course, you could also use the Style pop-up menu on the toolbar and choose "Default" or "Clear Formatting", but I assumed you wanted a keyboard shortcut ).
GridLox wrote:
It so happened that the Font Color button was one of those 'hidden'. When I clicked on it, instead of getting the floating colour palette - from which to select a colour, the existing (default?) colour displayed was applied.
That's a long-standing OOo bug, though I have no idea what the bug number is anymore. I've sort-of given up hope that they'll ever fix it My work-around is to use the Format: Character window (or often just to resize the window temporarily ).
Hope these ideas are useful, too.
Smokey _________________ "[...] whether the duck drinks hot chocolate or coffee is irrelevant." -- ovvldc and sardisson in the NeoWiki
Posted: Sat May 01, 2010 8:24 am Post subject: Re: Two small bugs and how to 'squash' them!
sardisson wrote:
GridLox wrote:
1. If I use the indicated keyboard shortcut for "Default Formatting" - e.g. to clear unwanted links, the active page is minimised (i.e. placed on the dock).
I think there's also another (hidden) shortcut for that other than Cmd-M; maybe someone else will remember it.
I did not find any other shortcut for the Default Formatting action. Unfortunately, by default it is set to Command-M which is also the Mac OS X shortcut for minimizing a window. So setting the shortcut to a different shortcut is like GridLox did is the right solution.
sardisson wrote:
GridLox wrote:
It so happened that the Font Color button was one of those 'hidden'. When I clicked on it, instead of getting the floating colour palette - from which to select a colour, the existing (default?) colour displayed was applied.
That's a long-standing OOo bug, though I have no idea what the bug number is anymore. I've sort-of given up hope that they'll ever fix it My work-around is to use the Format: Character window (or often just to resize the window temporarily ).
I don't think that this is an OpenOffice.org bug. Instead, I think you are just using the wrong mouse actions. The normal behavior for clicking on the Font Color toolbar button is that the color last selected in the Font Color floating window is applied to any selected text.
So, to display the Font Color floating window, do either of the following steps:
1. Press the small arrow just to the right of the Font Color toolbar button.
2. Click and hold on the Font Color toolbar button for a couple of seconds.
Posted: Sat May 01, 2010 10:42 am Post subject: Re: Two small bugs and how to 'squash' them!
pluby wrote:
I don't think that this is an OpenOffice.org bug. Instead, I think you are just using the wrong mouse actions. The normal behavior for clicking on the Font Color toolbar button is that the color last selected in the Font Color floating window is applied to any selected text.
So, to display the Font Color floating window, do either of the following steps:
1. Press the small arrow just to the right of the Font Color toolbar button.
2. Click and hold on the Font Color toolbar button for a couple of seconds.
The OOo bug is that when the button is not shown because the window is "too narrow" (i.e., the button is in the overflow menu), you can't do either of those two things and the result of clicking on the color button in the menu is always the single-click "last color used" action.
Smokey _________________ "[...] whether the duck drinks hot chocolate or coffee is irrelevant." -- ovvldc and sardisson in the NeoWiki
Posted: Sat May 01, 2010 11:04 am Post subject: Re: Two small bugs and how to 'squash' them!
sardisson wrote:
The OOo bug is that when the button is not shown because the window is "too narrow" (i.e., the button is in the overflow menu), you can't do either of those two things and the result of clicking on the color button in the menu is always the single-click "last color used" action.
Ah. Now I understand. In this case, one possible workaround is to "undock" the toolbar and make it a floating window by dragging the vertical dots at the left end of the toolbar. The floating window that will appear will show all of the toolbar icons and the floating window can be resized to a shape that hopefully does not use up too much screen space.
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) by just customizing the shortcut for "Default Formatting", i.e. assign Cmd-Shift-Z to that command directly.
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My work-around is to use the Format: Character window (or often just to resize the window temporarily 
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