Issue 119671 - Making it easier to lay out form elements
Summary: Making it easier to lay out form elements
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Calc
Classification: Application
Component: editing (show other issues)
Version: OOo 3.3
Hardware: PC All
: P3 Normal (vote)
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Reported: 2012-06-01 10:46 UTC by Dwayne Henderson
Modified: 2012-06-24 07:29 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Padding / spacing to contents - Before (77.73 KB, image/png)
2012-06-23 13:41 UTC, Dwayne Henderson
no flags Details
Padding / spacing to contents - After (78.72 KB, image/png)
2012-06-23 13:41 UTC, Dwayne Henderson
no flags Details

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Description Dwayne Henderson 2012-06-01 10:46:38 UTC
Seeking an easier way of laying out form elements.

Right now, after creating a form element, one has to spend a lot of time getting the PositionX, PositionY, Width and Height just right if one wants it to fit in nicely with the cell - without blocking out parts of its grid ( http://i.imgur.com/7oeAU.png => http://i.imgur.com/idTKV.png) - or being too crammed to the left.

I'm thinking:

- A "Snap to grid" that snaps to the actual cell grid
- A "Spacing to contents" for form elements such as Option Buttons, Check Boxes etc. so that they don't get too crammed to the left
- "Text padding" for the text inside List Boxes etc. so that they too don't get too crammed to the left (currently one has to add a leading whitespace to remedy this: http://i.imgur.com/H7Yye.png)

Like Kevin Grignon said, and I hope he don't mind me quoting him: "Indeed, smarter defaults would reduce the amount of secondary formatting and form layout refinements - making for a better experience."
Comment 1 binguo 2012-06-12 03:27:39 UTC
Verified on AOO3.4.O Rev. 1327774,
and I change the status from Unconfirmed to confirmed.
Comment 2 Oliver-Rainer Wittmann 2012-06-13 07:20:29 UTC
adjusting issue types and severity according suggestion from Bin Guo
Comment 3 Dwayne Henderson 2012-06-23 13:41:15 UTC
Created attachment 78444 [details]
Padding / spacing to contents - Before
Comment 4 Dwayne Henderson 2012-06-23 13:41:43 UTC
Created attachment 78445 [details]
Padding / spacing to contents - After
Comment 5 Oliver Brinzing 2012-06-24 07:29:38 UTC
please have a look at:

https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=33783
can not set AnchorType of a control in calc via API

https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=10019
Controls are loosing their position even if they are move protected