Textbox is unselectable after text is overflowed by empty lines.

[Guillermo Espertino (Gez)]

If you have an existing flowed text and you insert some line breaks or text displacing the existing text at the end of the paragraph out of the textbox limits, that displaced text is destroyed.

Steps to reproduce:
1- Create a flowed text box. Create a text.
2- Adjust the texbox to the limits of the existing paragraph
3- Edit the text. Inser a couple of line breaks and some text making the existing text go beyond the lower end of the text box.
4- expand the textbox. the displaced text should be there, but it's not.

Inkscape SVN
Ubuntu 8.10 - 64 bit.

btw. Once this is fixed, there should be an indicator when the text exceeds the bounds of the textbox. At the moment is impossible to know if the text displayed is the complete content of the textbox or just a part of it.

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Not reproduced with build 21007 (ubuntu 8.10, 32bit) and build 20932 (Windows Vista SP1).

[Thomas Ibbotson (thomas-ibbotson)]

I can't reproduce this with build 21180 (ubuntu 8.10, 64bit). Can you confirm whether this is fixed or not for you in the current SVN version?

[Guillermo Espertino (Gez) (gespertino-gmail)]

I just compiled Rev. 21182.
As far as I can see, the original bug seems to be fixed (text is not destroyed anymore)
However, there's a bug. If you displace all the text out of the bounds of the textbox, the box isn't selectable anymore.

Please try this steps:

1- Create a textbox.
2- type some text.
3- select the textbox with the select tool
4- insert the text. Place some linebreaks before the text, displacing the whole existing text out of the bounds of the existing text.
5- click on the select tool.

Result: The textbox isn't visible anymore, and it can't be selected.

There's a workaround: using the XML editor and selecting the textbox element makes it visible again.

I'm reopening this bug, changing the summary and dropping the importance. Information isn't destroyed anymore, but it's a bug.

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Guillermo's bug confirmed on Ubuntu 9.04, Inkscape build 21303.

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Related feature request (about a similar issue):
* Bug #1518574 “empty text boxes should be visible”
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1518574

[Jonathan Hofinger (jhofinger)]

Hi - thanks for reporting this bug, I've manually migrated it to Inkscape's new bug tracker on GitLab, and closed it here.

Please feel free to file new bugs about the issues you're seeing at http://inkscape.org/report.

Moved to: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/issues/1679
Closed by: https://gitlab.com/jhofinger