AbiWord Cocoa Dialogs

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About

AbiWord->About AbiWord...
OK.

fjf, 9th Jan. '05

Background

Format->Background->Page Image...
Pops up the Insert Picture dialog.
Format->Background->Page Color...
Doesn't seem to do anything.

fjf, 9th Jan. '05

Break

Insert->Break...
OK.

fjf, 9th Jan. '05

Columns

Format->Columns...
OK.

fjf, 9th Jan. '05

Document Properties

File->Properties...
OK.

fjf, 9th Jan. '05

File Encoding

File->Export... [Encoded Text (.txt, .text)]
OK.

fjf, 9th Jan. '05

Field

Insert->Field...
OK.

fjf, 9th Jan. '05

File Open Save As

File->Open...
Mostly OK on 10.3. Likely to be different on 10.2.
File->Save As...
Mostly OK on 10.3. Likely to be different on 10.2.
Insert->Picture...
Mostly OK on 10.3. Likely to be different on 10.2.

fjf, 9th Jan. '05

Font

Format->Font...
Seems OK, but the assumption of fonts with bold/italic entries is a little restrictive since some font families have other fonts entries.

fjf, 9th Jan. '05

Format Footnotes

Format->Footnotes and Endnotes...
OK.

fjf, 9th Jan. '05

Format Frame (Text Box)

Format->Text Box...
OK.

fjf, 9th Jan. '05

Format Table

Table->Format Table...
Mostly OK, but should be reworked in the style of Format Frame above.

fjf, 9th Jan. '05

Goto

Edit->Go To...
OK, though not very pretty, and I don't like these titles.

fjf, 9th Jan. '05

Header / Footer

Format->Header/Footers...
OK.

fjf, 9th Jan. '05

Insert Date / Time

Insert->Date and Time...
OK.

fjf, 9th Jan. '05

Insert Bookmark

Insert->Bookmark...
OK.

fjf, 9th Jan. '05

Insert Hyperlink

Insert->Hyperlink...
OK.

fjf, 9th Jan. '05

Insert Symbol

Insert->Symbol...
Difficult to know what to do with this. Symbol & Dingbats fonts have a traditionally non-unicode mapping. As far as AbiWord is concerned, you can pick up unicode characters using MacOSX's character palette, but for compatibility with Windows there is occasionally a need to support the traditional encoding. But what to do about this dialog...?

fjf, 9th Jan. '05

Insert Table

Table->Insert->Table...
OK.

fjf, 9th Jan. '05

Language

Tools->Language...
It is now possible to set the document's language. This works best if you do this immediately after creating the new document, otherwise language properties on spans confuse matters.

fjf, 19th Feb. '05

List Revision

Tools->Revisions->Select revision...
OK.

fjf, 9th Jan. '05

Lists

Format->Bullets and Numbering...
Mostly OK. Insane precision in the alignment field, some deeply obscure settings, and that title I dislike so much.

fjf, 9th Jan. '05

Mail Merge

Tools->Mail Merge...
Pops up the File Open dialog. (I haven't tried any further.)

fjf, 9th Jan. '05

Mark Revisions

Tools->Revisions->Mark revisions while typing
OK.

fjf, 9th Jan. '05

Merge Cells

Table->Merge Cells...
OK, apart from title. Need to get these buttons working in the Tool Palette also.

fjf, 9th Jan. '05

Message Box

[Alerts.]
OK, except for this particular case when button should read 'Don't Save', 'Cancel' & 'Save'.

fjf, 9th Jan. '05

New Document

File->New using Template...
OK. "Create an empty document" option removed 20th Feb.; see Bug 7509.

fjf, 20th Feb. '05

Options / Preferences

AbiWord->Preferences...
Very much a work in progress. (Check BiDi options - I think one has been disabled.)

fjf, 9th Jan. '05

Page Numbers

Insert->Page Numbers...
OK.

fjf, 9th Jan. '05

Page Setup

File->Page Setup...
Format->Document...
Mostly OK.

fjf, 9th Jan. '05

Paragraphs

Format->Paragraph...
OK.

fjf, 9th Jan. '05

Password

[??]
(I don't know how to make this appear.)

fjf, 9th Jan. '05

Plugins Manager

Tools->Plugins...
OK.

fjf, 9th Jan. '05

Replace (also Find)

Edit->Find...
Edit->Replace...
OK, apart from the title.

fjf, 9th Jan. '05

Spell

Tools->Spelling->Spelling...
OK.

fjf, 9th Jan. '05

Split Cells

Table->Split Cells...
OK, apart from title. Need to get these buttons working in the Tool Palette also.

fjf, 9th Jan. '05

Styles

Format->Style->Create and Modify...
OK.

fjf, 9th Jan. '05

Stylist

Format->Style->Stylist...
OK.

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Tabs

Format->Tabs...
OK.

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Toggle Case

Format->Change Case...
OK.

fjf, 9th Jan. '05

Window More

[I don't think there's any way to use this.]
...

fjf, 9th Jan. '05

Word Count

Tools->Word Count...
OK.

fjf, 9th Jan. '05

Zoom

View->Zoom->Zoom...
Is there any need for this dialog? Anyway, the preview is a mess.

fjf, 9th Jan. '05