How to get rid of "This document is in read only mode" bar

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#1

The version of LO that ships with Ubuntu 15.04 is 4.4.2.

Since upgrading Ubuntu the other day I have noticed that forms- which are meant to open in read-only mode- now come with a big yellow bar which says "This document is in read only mode" with a big button to press to enter Edit mode.

Is there a way to get rid of this thing permanently?

Thanks

#2

There is only one way to get rid of this: File an enhancement request,
collect some votes. The result might be another option in the vast
options dialog of LO 5.1 where you can turn off a new anti-feature.

#3

The version of LO that ships with Ubuntu 15.04 is 4.4.2.

Since upgrading Ubuntu the other day I have noticed that forms- which
are meant to open in read-only mode- now come with a big yellow bar
which says "This document is in read only mode" with a big button to
press to enter Edit mode.

Is there a way to get rid of this thing permanently?

Thanks

The following is a dirty hack to hide this nasty subwindow (and possibly
others). Store it somewhere in "My Macros".

Open a form in editable mode.
menu:Tools>Customize>Events,
Save in: <the respective document>
Bind the macro to event "View created".
Save, close, reload the form document.

Sub hidePanelWindows(e)
Dim CompWin, acRole, cHeight, wins, i, w, ac
wait(1000)
CompWin = e.Source.CurrentController.Frame.ComponentWindow
acRole = com.sun.star.accessibility.AccessibleRole.PANEL
cHeight = com.sun.star.awt.PosSize.HEIGHT
wins() = CompWin.getWindows()
for i = 1 to uBound(wins())
  w = wins(i)
  ac = w.AccessibleContext
  if ac.AccessibleRole = acRole then
    w.setPosSize(0,0,0,0,cHeight)
  endif
next
End Sub

The macro hides all subwindows of certain type. Let me know if the macro
hides any wanted items which may happen.

Hope this helps,
Andreas

#4

Thanks Andreas.

It works although not perfectly as it leaves an empty grey panel there where the yellow was. But it is a lot less annoying. :slight_smile:

Keith