Re: [libreoffice-users] Base: Changing & restoring (Default) font

Hi :)
Hmm, so perhaps an "Enhancement Request" (wish-list or feature-- request) might be a good idea with 
the request asking for the fonts to be in 
Tools - Options - Base

It 'should' be possible to select quite a few elements on a Form or Report and change various 
things for all those that are selected.  In Access i think i used to be able to select an area and 
any controls that were completely inside the area would be selected.  Any that were partly outside 
wouldn't be.  I think Shift click and Ctrl click also resulted in selecting more than 1 element at 
a time.  Dunno if it works and even if it does work i dunno if it actually helps.  

Regards from
Tom :)  





> ________________________________
> From: Girvin R. Herr <girvin.herr@sbcglobal.net>
> To: Tom Davies <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk> 
> Cc: LibreOffice Users <users@global.libreoffice.org> 
> Sent: Saturday, 12 January 2013, 21:24
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Base: Changing & restoring (Default) font
>
> Tom,
> I don't think I am over-complicating it.  Here is what I found:
>
>    In Tools -> Options -> Writer -> Basic fonts,  I have "Default"
>    listed as "Liberation Sans", Size 12.  (This is correct, for my Writer.)
>
>    In the example Base form I mentioned, when I have no control
>    selected (edit mode) , the toolbar shows "Default", "DejaVu Serif",
>    size 12.    If I select a control the toolbar options are greyed out and in the
>    control's properties dialog under "Font", it lists "(Default)", and
>    when I click on the [...] button to the right to get the font
>    selection dialog, it first highlights "DejaVu Sans", with size of
>    10.  I am assuming that since it is highlighted first, it is what
>    "(Default)" is set to.
>
> These are three different fonts!
> So, your comment that Base does not have a separate default font does not appear true.  Base does 
> not seem to track the Writer "Default" font as its "(Default)" font.  Keep in mind, this form was 
> created way back with an early version of OpenOffice, probably 2.4, so these font definitions may 
> be embedded in the form file somewhere from then.  However, the form's "(Default)" font should be 
> changeable somewhere, as is Writer's, since it can't seem to be changed in the Base form's style 
> dialog.  I just had another idea and looked at the form's character style (no control selected).  
> There is a "Default" character style, but when I right-click on it, all I get is "New", no 
> "Modify" option.  Weird!
>
> In the "big picture", what I am trying to do is change "(Default)" to the font I want without 
> changing each and every one of the numerous controls in numerous forms that I have.  That will be 
> painful, as I discovered already on one form, which I will have to return to "(Default)" when I 
> learn the secret of changing the "(Default)" font.  That is why I asked question #2 - how to 
> return a control font to "(Default)" after is has been changed to something else.
> Thanks.
> Girvin Herr
>
>
>
> Tom Davies wrote:
> > Hi :)
> > Are you over-complicating the default font?
> > Tools - Options - Writer - "Basic Fonts"
> > should set the defaults for most things.  There isn't a different one for Base. Regards from
> > Tom :) 
> >      ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >      *From:* Girvin R. Herr <girvin.herr@sbcglobal.net>
> >      *To:* LibreOffice Users <users@global.libreoffice.org>
> >      *Sent:* Saturday, 12 January 2013, 2:28
> >      *Subject:* [libreoffice-users] Base: Changing & restoring
> >      (Default) font
> >
> >      Greetings,
> >      I am running Base in LO 3.6.4.3.  In a form, I am trying to change
> >      the "(Default)" font without any progress.  I do not know where
> >      this "(Default)" font setting is located and the styles icon on
> >      the toolbar, along with the font window on the toolbar are grayed
> >      out if I have a control selected.  They are not grayed out if I do
> >      not have any control selected and then I can change the "Default"
> >      style font to another font.  However, when I select a control, the
> >      control properties dialog still has "(Default)" selected and the
> >      font displayed in the control is not the font I changed to in the
> >      style dialog.  Does anyone know where to set the font assigned to
> >      the "(Default)" font?
> >
> >      Second, related question:  Once the control's font is changed in
> >      the control properties dialog to something other than "(Default)",
> >      how does one get it back to "(Default)"?
> >      The "(Default)" option is not available in the font selection dialog.
> >
> >      Thanks in advance.
> >      Girvin Herr
> >
> >
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