Issue 128230 - Immediate crash changing anchor on form
Summary: Immediate crash changing anchor on form
Status: CLOSED IRREPRODUCIBLE
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: formatting (show other issues)
Version: 4.1.7
Hardware: Mac macOS 10.15
: P5 (lowest) Normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: AOO issues mailing list
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Reported: 2019-11-21 17:40 UTC by Frank Gurnee
Modified: 2020-01-24 18:23 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
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first part of mac crash report (10.76 KB, text/plain)
2019-11-21 17:40 UTC, Frank Gurnee 		no flags Details
simple doc with formatted field that causes error (9.89 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)
2019-11-26 03:00 UTC, Frank Gurnee 		no flags Details
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Description Frank Gurnee 2019-11-21 17:40:10 UTC 
Created attachment 86766 [details]
first part of mac crash report

Making a form with Form Controls toolbar double clicking a field to open the Properties Box.  Changing the Anchor parameter causes an immediate crash.

Specifically I want to change a Formatted Field which defaults to Character anchor to Page.  But testing on a Text field with Page anchor and changing to anything also caused immediate crash.

Happens every time, even one field on new document.
Comment 1 oooforum (fr) 2019-11-23 19:35:17 UTC 
Please, save our time and provide here the document.
Comment 2 Frank Gurnee 2019-11-26 03:00:06 UTC 
Created attachment 86771 [details]
simple doc with formatted field that causes error
Comment 3 oooforum (fr) 2019-11-26 18:25:28 UTC 
providing a step-by-step procedure would have been good, would not it?
1) Download attached document and saving on HD
2) Open sample_format_error.odt with File > Open menu
3) Enable "Form design" toolbar with View menu
4) Switch "Design mode On" with dedicated button
5) Select "Formatted Field 1" control
6) Right click and select Anchor > To Page menu
Result: No crash

Tested on Win7 and Win10 Pro edition with AOO 4.1.7
Comment 4 Frank Gurnee 2019-11-26 18:30:56 UTC 
this is on Mac OSX 10.15
Comment 5 oooforum (fr) 2019-11-27 19:29:21 UTC 
So, you can wait here if another Mac user can confirm.

But the best is to post this problem on the community forum or mailing list:
http://www.openoffice.org/support/index.html
Comment 6 oooforum (fr) 2020-01-20 15:33:23 UTC 
@Frank: did you have feedback from end-users (forum or mail list)?
Comment 7 Frank Gurnee 2020-01-20 15:42:52 UTC 
Yes. He couldn't reproduce but I have work around. I'll try to close this one appropriately