Bug 36943 - UI: Toolbar "Edit Points" not available
Summary: UI: Toolbar "Edit Points" not available
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Spreadsheet (show other bugs)
Version: Inherited From OOo
Hardware: Other All
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
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: 45225 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2011-05-07 13:31 UTC by gleppert
Modified: 2014-04-16 11:57 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Attachments
Example for typical usage of bended lines (14.50 KB, application/vnd.ms-excel)
2011-05-08 01:05 UTC, gleppert
Details
screenshot of edit points toolbar (216.13 KB, image/png)
2012-01-24 09:42 UTC, sasha.libreoffice
Details

Description gleppert 2011-05-07 13:31:53 UTC
Problem in the drawing layer of Calc: Adding points to a line in Calc does not work. Clicking on the icon "Points" has no effect. Also the toolbar "edit points" does not show up. This bug is only in Calc. This feature works perfectly in Writer, Draw and Impress.

MenuItem : edit -> "Edit points" missing from menu

Steps to reproduce:
* Open Calc
* Make sure that the toolbar "Drawing" is activated (view->Toolbars->drawing)
* Draw a line in the empty spreadsheet
* Click on the icon "Points" in the toolbar "drawing"
* Nothing happens. In Writer,Draw, Impress, the toolbar "edit points" opens and makes it possible to add points and to bend the line. 

As far as I know this used to work in Calc some years ago. During that date, the bug was entered in the OpenOffice issue tracker: http://openoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55720 Nevertheless, I assume that it is an easy to solve bug. Apparently, no developer has ever looked into it since 2005.
Comment 1 Rainer Bielefeld Retired 2011-05-08 00:08:56 UTC
[Reproducible] with "LibreOffice 3.4Beta3  – WIN7  Home Premium  (64bit) German UI [DEV300m103 (Build:3)]"
Same with OOo 1.1.4, 3.1, dev 3.4

The corresponding OOo Issue is 
"Toolbar and menu "edit - edit points" missing in CALC"
<http://openoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55720>

I doubt that that is intended, but because of the long history of the problem I do not see much importance.

@gleppert@gmx.de:
Is there any definition for Whiteboard "SkillCpp"?
Comment 2 gleppert 2011-05-08 01:05:34 UTC
Created attachment 46440 [details]
Example for typical usage of bended lines
Comment 3 gleppert 2011-05-08 01:08:03 UTC
I doubt that the importance of the bug is low/minor. I very often receive
Excel-files that include bended lines/arrows in order to highlight important
relations between cells. Please see attached .xls-file as an example. To produce something similar in Calc is impossible due to this bug. I really wouldn't take the age of the OOo-bug as indicator for the importance of the bug ;-)

I believe that this is an easy to solve bug. Am I right?

@Rainer: I took the Whiteboard definition from
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/EasyHacks_Bugzilla_Migration. It
means C++ skills.

Small remark to original bug entry: 
Before committing the bug, I wanted to have deleted the phrase "MenuItem : edit
-> "Edit points" missing from menu". Apparently, I didn't. This phrase is
unimportant for this bug entry.
Comment 4 Björn Michaelsen 2011-12-23 12:01:43 UTC
[This is an automated message.]
This bug was filed before the changes to Bugzilla on 2011-10-16. Thus it
started right out as NEW without ever being explicitly confirmed. The bug is
changed to state NEEDINFO for this reason. To move this bug from NEEDINFO back
to NEW please check if the bug still persists with the 3.5.0 beta1 or beta2 prereleases.
Details on how to test the 3.5.0 beta1 can be found at:
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/BugHunting_Session_3.5.0.-1

more detail on this bulk operation: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/RFC-Operation-Spamzilla-tp3607474p3607474.html
Comment 5 sasha.libreoffice 2012-01-24 09:42:34 UTC
Created attachment 56093 [details]
screenshot of edit points toolbar

reproduced in LibO 3.6.0 master on Fedora 64 bit
to reproduce: draw line, select it and press button "Points" on Drawing toolbar
"Edit points" toolbar not appears
Comment 6 gleppert 2012-03-15 10:48:00 UTC
This request for enhancement is still valid for current versions of LibreOffice
Comment 7 sasha.libreoffice 2012-05-11 02:13:20 UTC
*** Bug 45225 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 zevans23 2012-06-01 03:07:21 UTC
I have the same problem - but in Draw. No way to get toolbar to appear. Edit menu item is missing. If I add the icon to the Drawing toolbar, it is not functional.

LibreOffice 3.5.3.2 
Build ID: 235ab8a-3802056-4a8fed3-2d66ea8-e241b80
Windows 7 64-bit
Comment 9 Rainer Bielefeld Retired 2012-06-01 08:51:13 UTC
Already see that with OOo-Dev 3.2.2, so inherited from OOo.
May be one of the the roots of the problem is that you even can't create such a toolbar because the functions (add point, ...) are not available in Calc under 'Tools -> Customize -> Toolbars -> Add ... -> Category=Drawing- Commands'
In WRITER it's available.
May be it never was intended to have those functions in Calc? But I wonder why.

@zevans23
I believe your problem is something completely different.
Comment 10 gleppert 2012-06-01 11:09:50 UTC
@Rainer: As far as I know, this functionality was there in OpenOffice in pre-2.0 days. However I do not have the possibility to cross-check now (version 1.1.5 is in fact quite long time ago :-)

I still believe that this issue can be easily fixed, but I believe no one had a look at the issue since 2005.

The old link to the OpenOffice bug entry was broken. Here is the new one:
https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=55720
Comment 11 gleppert 2012-06-01 11:44:10 UTC
Side note: I just installed some old OpenOffice.org 1.1.5 in an Crossover Bottle and also there it does not work. Now, I am a bit confused, because I remember a discussion with OpenOffice developers seven years ago where it was mentioned that this bug came in with version 2.0.?!
Comment 12 Marina Latini 2014-01-24 14:44:33 UTC
Same problem with Calc in 
LibreOffice 4.1.4.2 – Ubuntu 13.10 (64bit) Italian UI Build ID:410m0(Build:2)
Comment 13 Rachit Gupta 2014-02-09 14:46:37 UTC
I wish to work on this bug. Can someone tell me where to look for the code for the Drawing Toolbar in Writer as well as Calc?
Comment 14 sasha.libreoffice 2014-02-10 05:09:39 UTC
Thanks for interesting in this bug
Please, try to ask here:
irc://chat.freenode.net/libreoffice-dev
Comment 15 Gerry 2014-02-27 10:32:59 UTC
@Rachit: Thanks for looking into this bug, this is highly appreciated. Have you received the code pointers and information you were looking for? If not, have you already asked at the developers mailing list?
Comment 16 Aldo Fiorentin 2014-03-06 20:45:11 UTC
I confirm the problem in LibreOffice 4.2, 4.1.5 and 4.1.3, with Windows XP.
In my opinion the problem has a certain importance.
Comment 17 Gerry 2014-04-16 11:57:52 UTC
"Edit points" either was never implemented in Calc (only the icon is there, but no feature behind) or it is a very old bug. In a forum, there was a user who started his StarOffice 5.2 and could confirm this bug.

Original post (in German language):
"Punkte hinzfügen" gibt es nicht, weil die "Bezierobjektleiste" in
StarOffice Calc 5.2 nicht angezeigt wird. Die gibt es nur in Writer, Draw und
Impress.

Es ist also keine Regression, sondern tatsächlich ein uralter Bug aus
den 90ern. :-)


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