Bug 52234 - EDITING: Mouse pointer does not change timely to "move view" when drag modus changes to "without shadow"
Summary: EDITING: Mouse pointer does not change timely to "move view" when drag modus ...
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Drawing (show other bugs)
Version: 3.5.1 release
Hardware: All Windows (All)
: medium minor
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Reported: 2012-07-18 12:28 UTC by sunmoon51
Modified: 2014-01-31 18:53 UTC (History)
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Description sunmoon51 2012-07-18 12:28:48 UTC 
Suppose you have a rectangle. You want to move it. You place mouse cursor over the rectangle and left click it. Wait a moment. The cursor changes and you move the mouse. You do not see object shadow moving. This is the bug. You release mouse button and the rectangle is in the new position. But you were not able to position the rectangle because the object shadow was invisible while dragging.

But: move the mouse over the rectangle and left click mouse while moving. Guess what? The object shadow is visible and you can position the object. So this is a difference.

The effect is even more visible while option "Snap Lines when Moving" is selected. You can see snap lines vanishing after a part of the second after you left click your mouse while the mouse is not moving. When you start with moving mouse you can see snap lines moving together with the object shadow as it should always be.

The effect is most annoying while trying to move lines. Most times you end up with a line moving without shadow. Therefore I assume fixing this bug is kind of important issue.
Comment 1 Hashem Masoud 2012-09-15 08:16:15 UTC 
(In reply to comment #0)
> Suppose you have a rectangle. You want to move it. You place mouse cursor over
> the rectangle and left click it. Wait a moment. The cursor changes and you move
> the mouse. You do not see object shadow moving. This is the bug. You release
> mouse button and the rectangle is in the new position. But you were not able to
> position the rectangle because the object shadow was invisible while dragging.

It works for me:
Version 3.6.0.4 (Build ID: 932b512) Slackware Linux 13.37
I can see the shadow while dragging the rectangle. Same happens when dragging a line.

Which Operating System are you using? Can you try again with the latest Libreoffice release.
Comment 2 sunmoon51 2012-09-15 09:31:59 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> (In reply to comment #0)
> > Suppose you have a rectangle. You want to move it. You place mouse cursor over
> > the rectangle and left click it. Wait a moment. The cursor changes and you move
> > the mouse. You do not see object shadow moving. This is the bug. You release
> > mouse button and the rectangle is in the new position. But you were not able to
> > position the rectangle because the object shadow was invisible while dragging.
> 
> It works for me:
> Version 3.6.0.4 (Build ID: 932b512) Slackware Linux 13.37
> I can see the shadow while dragging the rectangle. Same happens when dragging a
> line.
> 

I'd like to clarify: I can see the shadow too, but ONLY when I start dragging sufficiently fast after clicking the object. When I click, then wait a second or two, then the shadow vanishes. So: don not click and immediately drag, but click, wait, and drag. You should see the effect.

> Which Operating System are you using?

It is Win 7 Home Premium or Win 7 Professional. However I've seen this effect under Linux as well.

> Can you try again with the latest
> Libreoffice release.

I can now see this with Draw from LibreOffice Version 3.6.1.2 (Build ID: e29a214).
Comment 3 Rainer Bielefeld Retired 2012-09-21 05:14:13 UTC 
I can confirm observations in Comment 2.

Effect is [Reproducible] with Server Installation of "LibreOffice 3.6.2.1 rc  German UI/ German Locale [Build-ID:  ba822cc] on German WIN7 Home Premium (64bit), but I wonder whether it's a bug or a feature.

When I immediately start to drag the shape I see the "4 compass points" mouse pointer, and a "shadow" of the shape will follow the mouse pointer.

When I wait few moments (1 second or so), the control points change their color and become a little darker (now the modus has changed to "move without shadow"), and the mouse pointer will change to the "moving" view when I start dragging the shape, and no "shadow" will follow the mouse pointer. 

With parallel installation of Master "LOdev  3.7.0.0.alpha0+   -  ENGLISH UI / German Locale  [Build ID: 24761a6]"  {tinderbox: @6, pull time 2012-09-18 23:21:04} on German WIN7 Home Premium (64bit) behavior is similar to 3.6, but here the mouse pointer changes to moving view after few moments even before I start to drag the shape.

When You have activated 'Tools -> Options -> DRAW -> View - Snap lines when moving' he snap lines will disappear in the moment where the modus changes to "move without shadow"

I thought that there would be a setting "shadow when move", what might be related, but I can't find it.

Same with LibO 3.5.1.4, 3.4.5, 3.3.3 and OOo 1.1.5, never worked different. So this seems to be a feature?

But I think it would be better if mouse pointer view changes immediately when the behavior changes to "no shadow", as it does in 3.7 and also did in 3.4.5. This problem is already visible with 3.5.1.

So this seems to be the remaining bug.

@sunmoon51@gazeta.pl
What do you think?

@Hashem:
Can you confirm my observations for Linux?
Comment 4 sunmoon51 2012-09-21 08:05:09 UTC 
(In reply to comment #3)

> So this seems to be the remaining bug.
> 
> @sunmoon51@gazeta.pl
> What do you think?

I'm not able to check 3.4.5 or 3.7 so I stay with current version of 3.6. 

IMO it's a bug not a feature because moving without shadow is (at least for me) unusable. When I move the object I want to precisely locate it and without a shadow it's simply not possible. 

As far as mouse cursor is concerned, it should always change to 'moving' view while moving. "4 compass points" pointer while moving is not what I'd want. But it's not so important.

The most important issue is "need for speed". In order to see the shadow I have to do things fast; it's not what I like...
Comment 5 Hashem Masoud 2012-09-21 19:40:07 UTC 
(In reply to comment #3)
> @Hashem:
> Can you confirm my observations for Linux?

Yes, confirmed the behavior in:
Version 3.6.1.2 (Build ID: e29a214) Slackware Linux 13.37.
The lag between clicking and dragging shows this bug.
Comment 6 sunmoon51 2012-12-14 14:08:15 UTC 
Looking at 3.6.4 the bug is still present. You are slow in fixing the bugs, aren't you?
Comment 7 Jorendc 2014-01-31 18:53:00 UTC 
*** Bug 74289 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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