GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 561706
Problems selecting or highlighting in-cell text
Last modified: 2008-11-20 18:15:06 UTC
Please describe the problem: Windows XP, gnumeric-1.9.3-20081017.exe You can't select text with the mouse from the edit-item (inside the cell). I'm not sure what the correct terms are, but I'm assuming: "editline" is the line above the column headers, next to "X", "<-" and "=" "edit-item" means the text that is being edited directly inside a cell (this is what this bug is talking about). Steps to reproduce: 1. New workbook 2. Type "aaaBBBaaa" in A1, don't press enter 3. Use the mouse to select the "BBB" part in the middle (inside the cell, not editline above) Actual results: Nothing is highlighted. Expected results: "BBB" should be highlighted. Does this happen every time? Yes. Other information:
Selecting from the editline above the column headers kind of works (cursor should stop blinking inside the cell but that's bug 308303 I think).
Fixing product to Gnumeric.
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 122176 ***
This is not the same as bug 122176. This bug is about not being able to select text inside the cell with the mouse on Windows (doesn't work, nothing is selected).
OK, I didn't notice bug 122176 comment 8, but I still don't think this is the same bug.
Whether in Windows or under Linux you cannot highlight/select text in the cell. This si related to the fact that if you select text in the edit line, the highlighting isn't shown in the cell either. If you wish you can think of this as two closely related but slightly different issues. Nevertheless, if we ever figure out what we want to do here if will most likely be a single fix.