Re: [libreoffice-users] Bug selecting text using the API

Thanks for testing. We now have three instances where this fails.

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On Oct 20, 2019, 11:00 PM, at 11:00 PM, Mauricio Baeza <public@elmau.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Oct 2019 21:07:26 -0400, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
> <andrew@pitonyak.org> wrote:
>
> > Tested using LO 6.2.0.3 on Fedora Linux.
> >
> > I wanted to find all instances of Italic text using the API and
> select 
> > that text. I created a simple document with four areas that were
> Italic. 
> > I used the following macro and, although FindAll does return all
> italic 
> > text, it only selects the last three instances and not the first one.
> >
> >
> > My example had two instances in normal text and two instances in a
> text 
> > table.
> >
> > If I have more than once instance, it ignores the first. If I have
> ONLY 
> > one instance of Italic text, it will select the text.
> >
> >
> > Sub FindItalic_all
> >    Dim oDescriptor  'The search descriptor
> >    Dim oFound       'The found range
> >    Dim SrchAttributes(0) as new com.sun.star.beans.PropertyValue
> >
> >    SrchAttributes(0).Name = "CharPosture"
> >    SrchAttributes(0).Value =  com.sun.star.awt.FontSlant.ITALIC
> > '  SrchAttributes(0).Name = "CharFontName"
> > '  SrchAttributes(0).Value =  "Comic Sans MS"
> >
> >    oDescriptor = ThisComponent.createSearchDescriptor()
> >    oDescriptor.SetSearchAttributes(SrchAttributes)
> >
> >    oFound = ThisComponent.findAll(oDescriptor)
> >
> > '  Dim i As Integer
> > '  for i = 0 To oFound.Count - 1
> > '    Print oFound.getByIndex(i).getString(i)
> > '  Next
> >    Thiscomponent.getCurrentController.select(oFound)
> > End Sub
>
>
> I confirm the same bug, with Python:
>
>    from com.sun.star.beans import PropertyValue
>    from com.sun.star.awt.FontSlant import ITALIC
>
>    doc = XSCRIPTCONTEXT.getDocument()
>
>    opt = (PropertyValue(Name='CharPosture', Value=ITALIC),)
>    descriptor = doc.createSearchDescriptor()
>    descriptor.setSearchAttributes(opt)
>
>    found = doc.findAll(descriptor)
>    doc.CurrentController.select(found)
>
> Always select len(found) - 1
>
> I search if bug is reported, but not found any.
>
>
> Best regards
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