Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 42424
When hovered over a footnote reference in the text, footnotes appear in one line regardless of the length of footnote
Last modified: 2013-05-01 01:20:57 UTC
I have several documents with footnote, which are generally longer than a sentence or two. Hence they are longer than two or three lines. When I want to read footnote/endnotes, I normally hover the mouse over the footnote reference number, rather than going to the end of the page. When I do that, a popup box appears with the footnote/endnote appearing in it, generally in several short line. However, in OOo, this does not seem to work. It appears in one long line which exceeds the width of my screen. See http://www.warwick.ac.uk/~edrdh/images/OOo_footnote_problem.png for an image of the problem. As I said, my footnotes/endnote are big. I would like to read them without having to go the end of page/document back and fort for reading them. 25-35% of the width of screen size boxes with enough distances from the edges would work great. (MSWord outcome for the same behaviour can be seen here: http://www.warwick.ac.uk/~edrdh/images/Intended_outcome.png I hope you will sort this out soon. Thanks in advance. Best
Could be a good enhancement for displaying footnote content of a footnote
Is this 'enhancement' going to be in next release or is there going to be a solution for this 'problem' soon?
This still happens on 2.4.0~rc5 and affects Linux as well, not just Windows.
This still is an issue in OOo 3.0 Beta. Any news on whether there is an intention to fix this?
It has been quite a while since the first submission of the issue. I have written afterwards that the problem still exists! Anyone interested in this issue? I think the problem is that the issue type is set to enhancement, when it was actually a *defect*! The feature is already there: When you hover your mouse over the footnote reference, footnote text appears but the display of the footnote is defective! Maybe then will someone notice this problem! ps. Since my first submission, I have changed location. As a result, the links are not there anymore. When I have a chance, will submit new images.
patch (http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/diff/?id=675f723f83d110bec4a9a4c5fa09ad965d240d2a): diff --git a/vcl/source/app/help.cxx b/vcl/source/app/help.cxx index c57cb74..7a3f174 100644 --- a/vcl/source/app/help.cxx +++ b/vcl/source/app/help.cxx @@ -52,6 +52,8 @@ #define HELPDELAY_SHORT 2 #define HELPDELAY_NONE 3 +#define HELPTEXTMAXLEN 150 + // ======================================================================= Help::Help() @@ -358,7 +360,7 @@ HelpTextWindow::~HelpTextWindow() void HelpTextWindow::SetHelpText( const String& rHelpText ) { maHelpText = rHelpText; - if ( mnHelpWinStyle == HELPWINSTYLE_QUICK ) + if ( mnHelpWinStyle == HELPWINSTYLE_QUICK && maHelpText.Len() < HELPTEXTMAXLEN) { Size aSize; aSize.Height() = GetTextHeight(); @@ -420,7 +422,7 @@ void HelpTextWindow::Paint( const Rectangle& ) } // paint text - if ( mnHelpWinStyle == HELPWINSTYLE_QUICK ) + if ( mnHelpWinStyle == HELPWINSTYLE_QUICK && maHelpText.Len() < HELPTEXTMAXLEN) { if ( mnStyle & QUICKHELP_CTRLTEXT ) DrawCtrlText( maTextRect.TopLeft(), maHelpText ); generated by cgit v0.9.0.2-2-gbebe at 2012-09-07 12:44:19 (GMT)
I'm reviewing your defect report and attempting to confirm it. However, there is not enough information here for me to test your scenario. Specifically I need: Could you please add an attachment that shows the defect. I'm leaving this issue in the UNCONFIRMED state for now. But I'll need to move it to RESOLVED/IRREPRODUCIBLEsoon if I cannot find a way to reproduce it.
We have a recent patch for this enhancement request. Can we get it integrated into AOO 4.0?
(In reply to comment #8) > We have a recent patch for this enhancement request. Can we get it > integrated into AOO 4.0? I (author of the patch) would be glad for the integration (under your preferred license, Apache or public domain). Thanks in advance, László
ALG: Adding ORW to CC...
*** Issue 119135 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***