On Thu, 11 Feb 2016 13:58:09 -0800 "Dennis E. Hamilton" <dennis.hamil...@acm.org> wrote:
> My reading of the bug report is that it is entirely about OS/2 and has > nothing to do with Windows. > > I suppose the only question is whether that created a regression on 4.1.2 on > any non-OS/2 platform. > > Do we know if Yuri (or someone) merged those changes to the AOO410 branch > before AOO 4.1.2 was released? > > - Dennis I had promised to upload John_Ha's analysis of some OO problems, in particular his findings on the "Spellcheck problem" and on the "vanishing pictures" problem. For reasons connected with real life neither he nor I followed up on this and then matter slipped our minds. I've reminded him of this and he promises a detailed write-up in 24 hours, which I'll post to this list for preliminary consideration. >From Forum experience I can say that one aspect of the spellcheck problem, >viz., that suddenly it ceases working, seems to arise mostly from over hasty >close down of the computer, such as snapping a laptop lid shut before the >hardware/software write buffers have flushed to disk (remember also that many >modern disk drives have internal buffering and journalling to appear to speed >matters up). Advising users who regularly experience spellcheck loss to wait for a few seconds between closure of OpenOffice and power down seems to cure their problem. I would not be so rash as to claim that this is the universal cure-all for spellcheck problems, but that advice seems to cure the majority of "sudden disappearance of spellcheck" problems. -- Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org