Re: Normal and web mode

HI everyone,

I added the code prevent text boxes being inserted unless in print
view mode. There will almost certainly be issues for placing them
during Normal and web mode.

Lets revert the patch until we work out what the issues are. Simon has
been doing a lot of great work with text boxes recently, may the bugs
we worked around have been fixed.

Cheers

Martin

On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Simon Larochelle
<larochelle.simon.1@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Pradeeban and Aaditya,
>
> I saw your patch concerning the text box menu not active in Normal and
> Web modes (revision 30755). As the lines you removed were unlikely to
> be a bug, I looked back in the SVN to find when they were added. That
> code was added in revision 17660 and there is a thread in the mailing
> list in November 2005 that discusses these changes. Two things:
>
> 1) We need to discuss what we want for the Normal and Web modes before
> making these changes.
> 2) If we decide to restore the text box functionalities, we also need
> to undo other changes made in revision 17660 (for example, the text
> box context menu is deactivated).
>
> Since text box made in Print mode are still visible in Normal mode, I
> agree with you that it should be possible to draw a new text box in
> Normal mode so I would keep your patch and also undo other changes in
> revision 17660.
>
>
> As an aside, I noticed that in web mode the document layout is very
> similar to print mode with the web page effectively divided in pages
> of the normal size only with no margin visible. So for example there
> can be some extra space between paragraphs if only the first line of a
> paragraph would fit on a virtual page, page breaks cause some odd size
> space and setting a large distance between two paragraphs may be
> preempted by the division of the document in virtual pages. Should we
> instead have a continuous layout totally independent of the print page
> parameters? Note that this requires a significant amount of changes in
> fb_ColumnBreaker and I don't think that this is something we should do
> prior the release of Abiword 3.0.
>
> Regards,
>
> Simon
Received on Tue Apr 3 04:04:03 2012