Empty text boxes are useful to flow text into. This can be done programmatically outside of Inkscape, but it would be handy to do it in Inkscape too. Any object created in Inkscape should be selectable and changeable with the interface.
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 :-)
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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, using
>> Inkscape
>> 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 or
>> scaling
>> 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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