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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Autoforms broken in kpresenter?
From:       Reginald Stadlbauer <reggie () trolltech ! com>
Date:       2000-08-11 10:03:48
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On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Kurt Granroth wrote:
> Hi Reggie,
>
> It looks like autoforms are broken in current kpresenter.
> Specifically, it doesn't work either adding new autoforms are using
> ones in existing documents.
>
> My presentation makes extensive use of autoforms so when I updated
> kpresenter and loaded my presentation, I was suprised to see that they
> were all gone.  I then looked in the presentation structure editor and
> it showed that the autoforms were still there.  I clicked on the area
> where the form was supposed to be and there *is* a frame there.
>
> I then looked at the XML file itself and found that it points to an
> absolute filename!  Since I recently changed my setup around, this
> path no longer exists.  Problem solved, I thought, and just did a
> global substitution to the new path.... no good.  The autoforms still
> didn't show.
>
> So I created a new clean document and added a new autoform.  The
> autoform selection dialog shows the forms just fine... but when I add
> one, it just adds an empty frame.  There is no visible form inside.
>
> So I'm not entirely sure where the problem is -- it coud be in loading
> or in viewing.  The saving of absolute pathnames is probably a bug no
> matter what.. but that doesn't look to be the only problem.
>
> Any clues?

Not really, I didn't touch that code for ages. But I did see some commits to 
it, so maybe whoever did that can have a look at it please.

-- 
Reggie (reggie@trolltech.com)

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