Thanks su_v ! I looked through the related bug reports, and of course I read your answer. But I'm not clear about this.
Is an empty text box supposed to be a selectable object (selectable in some ways, not in other ways)? If so, and if it's not a bug, there must be some purpose for an empty text box. What is it?
Thanks again :-)
-------------------------------------------------- From: "su_v" <suv@...2638...> Sent: Friday, November 13, 2015 8:40 AM To: inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] empty text boxes
On 2015-11-13 11:16 (+0100), Brynn wrote:
I've been working on a series of Inkscape tutorials, usingInkscape to write the tutorials. So I'm using the Text tool a lot, making regular text....at least *on purpose* making regular text. But it seems I've made a lot of empty flowed text boxes by accident, which are selectable, even though they don't contain any text. I'm pretty sure it's happening when I try to highlight selected text and I don't have the mouse in precisely the correct position. And instead of highlighting text, I've dragged a tiny text box. But I assumed if I didn't type in it, and left the text box empty, it would not exist as an object.
If the user drags a text frame with the text tool, and does not enter any text, the flowed-text object is indeed created (unlike with regular text), and because it is empty (nothing visible on canvas), it cannot be selected with tools which select visible objects (select tool on-canvas with click or click-drag).
Related bug reports (known issue(s)):
Bug #485269 Invisible and unselectable flow region in image https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/485269
Bug #349602 Textbox is unselectable after text is overflowed by empty lines. https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/349602
When selected via the Tab key, there is no bounding box orscaling handles. But there is identification on the status bar. I can't seem to select by dragging a selection box. But Ctrl A has same behavior -- identification on status bar, but no bounding box on the canvas.
This behavior with selecting is as expected, and by itself is not a bug.
Regards, V
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