Any frame gets converted to a text frame if the text tool is selected when you double click on it

[kentsor]

The title says it all, that's definitely not reasonable behaviour. I had an image frame where I wanted to replace the image, the text frame tool was selected and when I double clicked on the image, it disappeared and I could see in the layer list that the layer was now a text frame. I really don't think it should do that.

[MEB]

Hi kentsor,
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[fde101]

This seems like a reasonable behavior to me, and could easily be by design.  Double-clicking on a something with the text tool selected implies that you want to add text to it.  Converting that thing to a text frame automatically sounds like a nice shortcut.

As an object cannot be both a picture frame and a text frame at the same time, converting a picture frame to a text frame would lose the picture - that makes sense.

[PMan]

 

5 hours ago, kentsor said:

The title says it all, that's definitely not reasonable behaviour. I had an image frame where I wanted to replace the image, the text frame tool was selected and when I double clicked on the image, it disappeared and I could see in the layer list that the layer was now a text frame. I really don't think it should do that.

I can't see it as a fault because that is exactly what happens if you right click on an image frame (with image) and select Convert to Text Frame. Therefore it would seem that [as fde101 suggests] a useful shortcut.

Additionally if you have the text tool selected then if you move the cursor over an image in a text frame the cursor changes
to a PENTAGON with a T inside  and if you left click while this cursor is over your image,

you can draw a text frame and insert text .

Once you happy with the text, style and position you could go to Layers tab, select and group the layers so that your image and text move together.

Pman   

 

[kentsor]

22 hours ago, fde101 said:

This seems like a reasonable behavior to me, and could easily be by design.  Double-clicking on a something with the text tool selected implies that you want to add text to it.  Converting that thing to a text frame automatically sounds like a nice shortcut.

As an object cannot be both a picture frame and a text frame at the same time, converting a picture frame to a text frame would lose the picture - that makes sense.

We'll have to disagree on it making sense.

[AdamW]

I don't really think this is desirable behaviour - it seems too easy to accidentally convert a Picture Frame to a Text Frame. Since Convert to Text Frame is readily available via Layers or Right Click I'll suggest we remove this shortcut.

[Wosven]

I don't see this as a bug, but I'm happy to disable it if possible

[fde101]

18 hours ago, AdamW said:

it seems too easy to accidentally convert a Picture Frame to a Text Frame

Suggest giving an option to convert a frame back to a non-frame (simple shape) and making the shortcut only work on things that are not already frames.  In other words, double-click a simple shape with the text tool selected and it becomes a text frame, but double-click on something that is a picture frame and it does not.

[Patrick Connor]

Clicking on a picture frame object with the Frame Text Tool selected converts it to a text frame

This issue was addressed in beta builds since 1.7.0.302. Please feel free to retest and create a new thread if you think it is not fixed or has introduced unexpected changes.