Hi all,
I have just published extension History Master
<http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/HistoryMaster>
- It resolves the limitations listed in [Question 3]
- It adds a display of recent file names from the same category as the current
document
- "removed" nodes of Histories.xcu are deleted by a nasty hack, but this solves
the privacy problem.
Dialogs currently support french, english, german, spanish, italian UI
languages.
This extension needs the level of OpenOffice.org 3.1.0 or more recent.
Regards
Bernard Marcelly
Message de Carsten Driesner date 2009-07-06 09:47 :
Bernard Marcelly wrote:
Hi,
As you probably know, OpenOffice.org has no UI facility to delete the
list of recent files, or change the number of file names memorized.
See Issue 37201.
For this reason, various programmers have developed macros to do this:
History Manager (original add-on) <http://ooomacros.org/user.php#105792>
History Manager (extension)
<http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/histmngr>
These macros cannot clear the lists in 3.1, because the internal
storage in the registry has changed.
Question 1 : where was this important change announced ? I can't see
it in the release notes for 3.1.
Question 2 : where is the documentation, or spec ? Because when you
read the Histories.xcu file the principles of storage are not obvious.
Question 3 : when will OpenOffice have the facility to
- change the size of each recent files list
- delete obsolete (non existing) file names
- clear the recent files lists
These features are present in many other applications, even small ones.
Hi Bernard,
The work from Yan and Andreas is the base to have extension which can
freely influence the recent file list via configuration API. The old
implementation needed C++ code to make this happen therefore we gained a
lot of freedom from their work. I also described how an extension can be
implemented to replace the old recent file list, see
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Framework/Tutorial/Popup_Menu_Controller
for more information. It currently lacks the part to clear, change the
size and delete obsolete files but a motivated developer should be able
to implement this in a couple of weeks. I am sure Yan is working on a
description of the new configuration schema Histories.xcs so people will
be able to add functions easily.
Regards,
Carsten
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