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Bug 518790 - deleting characters in textbox results in deleting the textbox
deleting characters in textbox results in deleting the textbox
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 115549
Product: dia
Classification: Other
Component: general
0.96.1
Other All
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: Dia maintainers
Dia maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-02-26 08:25 UTC by carlo
Modified: 2008-02-26 22:14 UTC
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Description carlo 2008-02-26 08:25:41 UTC 
Please describe the problem:
After entering some text in a text box object on a diagram, if you set the cursor (caret) at the beginning of the text and try to delete it, pressing the "DELETE" key, all the text box object is deleted form the diagram.

Steps to reproduce:
1. add a text box to a diagram
2. enter some text
3. set the caret at the beginning of the text (or anywhere in the middle of the text)
4. press the "delete" key


Actual results:
the text box disappear (it is deleted)

Expected results:
I would expect the text to be deleted

Does this happen every time?
yes

Other information:
a workaround: delete the text from right to left using the "BACK" key instead of deleting it from left to right using the "DELETE" key.
Comment 1 carlo 2008-02-26 08:42:14 UTC 
I noticed that this behaviour is common to all the objects in the diagram which contain text. So maybe it is a "feature" by design. But, in my humble opinion, having used other software tools, the correct behaviour is that the text could be deleted using the delete key and that, in order to delete the whole object, it should be possible to select it by clicking on its borders.
Comment 2 Hans Breuer 2008-02-26 19:44:04 UTC 
Sometimes it is useful to search the closed bugs as well ;)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 115549 ***
Comment 3 carlo 2008-02-26 22:14:19 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)
> Sometimes it is useful to search the closed bugs as well ;)
> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 115549 ***

Hans, I am sorry. I have seen now that this bug has a long history.. I just searched for version 0.96.1. By the way it doesn't seem closed or fixed at all. I will wait for the next GtkEntry widgets release.