On 13 Nov 2015 4:51 pm, "Brynn" <brynn@...3089...> wrote:

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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