Re: [dev] Specifications - summary suggestions ...
Hi Joerg, On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 12:40 +0100, Joerg Sievers wrote: + specifications are critical for (at a minimum): + file formats + complex / unfamiliar behaviours + behaviour changes affecting other's work (e.g. the automated gui testing is extremely dependent to the basics of OOo) hokay - well, this can easily be amortised by partitioning the tests such that it is easy/fast to run the tests on the piece of GUI code you changed to verify they are still perfect before marking the CWS 'Ready for QA', and/or writing guidelines on how best to avoid breaking the GUI test tool, and/or improving the GUI test tool code so it is less fragile under test :-) [ string names for key widgets eg. ]. Clearly a situation where the regression tests are fragile over small UI changes, require lots of maintenance and produce lots of false positives is in no-one's interest. Presumably also getting lots of developers to run the tests themselves try to analyse the output may result in more interest in improving the test framework itself. + we need to be able to execute these way more quickly: ~2 hours, to get yes/no answers on individual CWS' faster. On it's way, You can directly contact me for an update. Great; that's good news indeed; thank you. + Wiki + using a wiki for specs allows easier spec editing and construction and maintenance Don't think so, but there is now one. Try to design UI in it and you will love .odt :-) As I've said before, I am certain that the process of designing a UI is best done either in a UI Engineers head, or on some paper, or even better with several iterative prototype models and filmed analysed studies of test subjects using each etc. The spec. document should not be used as part of a workflow, but -only- to communicate relevant information about the finished result to interested parties; hence my desire to remove the IMHO unhelpful iTeaming aspect. HTH, Michael. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] , Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [dev] Unicode---Give us all of it!
Niklas Nebel wrote: Philipp Lohmann - Sun Germany wrote: Wouldn't that be more or less any occurence of sal_Unicode? There's hundreds of them in Calc alone. That depends probably on the details. If for example you are searching for ansi1252 code characters in a unicode string (e.g. '/' for URL or filename parsing springs to mind), then you need not change that code since those codes do not coincide with the possible surrogate values. I guess many instances may fall into that category where searching for a known constant unicode is concerned. Hundreds to look through, still quite a lot to actually change (text import/export, parsing, input handling, ...). I doubt that it is that many places that need to be changed. (For example, what do you think needs to be done for text import/export?) To quote from an article (http://java.sun.com/j2se/JM_White_Paper_R6A.pdf) that details what needs to be done when migrating to supplementary character (i.e., U+) support in Java 5: • You do not have to change — Applications that deal with text only in the form of char sequences in all forms (char[], implementations of java.lang.CharSequence, implementations of java.text.CharacterIterator), and only use Java APIs that accept and return such char sequences. In these cases, the implementation of the Java platform APIs handles supplementary characters for you. • You do not have to change — Applications that interpret individual characters; pass individual characters to Java platform APIs; or call methods that return individual characters, when supplementary characters are not processed. For example, if an application scans a char sequence for HTML tags, checking each char individually, it knows that those tags only use characters from the Basic Latin block, so no supplementary characters will not be processed-even if supplementary characters are included in the UTF-16 based char sequence. • You do have to change — Applications that interpret individual characters; pass individual characters to Java platform APIs; or call methods that return individual characters when those character values can include supplementary characters. However if we were to change the underlying format of OUString, then also these cases would possibly have to be adjusted; e.g. UTF-8 leaves only true ascii (128) values as a single encoded character (one byte in that case). However if i'm not mistaken, changing OUString from 2 byte values will not be possible since it would change UNO protocol incompatibly, yes ? I'm not saying it can't be changed as Stephan suggested, I'm just wondering if we really need a long list first. I think it will be a list of features (like Insert - Special Character... dialog in Writer, sal/textenc code to translate between UTF-8 and UTF-16), not of individual code lines that use sal_Unicode. Starting such a list early could give people examples of where changes will be necessary, so that they can think more easily about their potential contributions to that list. -Stephan Niklas - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [dev] Bad PRJNAMEs
Hi Stephan, Attached are two quick and dirty scripts that worked for me (within Hamburg build environment on a Linux box) to find all the places where PRJNAME is probably set wrongly (see below). Feel free to fix those you feel responsible for. In case nobody already volunteered to fix the zillions of offapi-located occurances, I do so. (which probably is better than lots of people adding this module to their own CWS.) Ciao Frank -- - Frank Schönheit, Software Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - Sun Microsystems http://www.sun.com/staroffice - - OpenOffice.org Database http://dba.openoffice.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[dev] updating database form controls on events
what i'm looking to do is pretty obvious stuff but really struggling to find a way. basically i have a database form that i want to insert a combobox into. that combobox will contain entries from a database field. those steps are easy via the oobase2 interface. next i want call out to a java function when the combobox is updated. this script will lookup the primary key of the selected item and update another, bound control on the form to the correct value. hopefully this will update the database. there are only two objects available from the script event. the event and the script context. i therefore have the event and the document. it would therefore seem simple to access the document (via script context) to get the Forms root or access the form via the event source (via the event). i could then search the form for the other control and update it with the necessary value. unfortunately, as the database document does not seem to support the the DrawPage interface (presumably because the actual form appears to be a writer document) i am unable to figure out how to obtain the Forms root or even better just the form node i need, so that i may locate the second, bound, control item. option two was to find the parent of the control which would presumably be the form and search for the required peer item. this also appears impossible as the control is not actually a FormComponent. my current thinking is that, if i get the component context then i could instantiate (via XMultiServiceFactory) the Forms service and thus the Forms root. if this is the correct route i need some help in doing it as i fail to understand the service instantiation service correctly (in this context at least) ... i.e. does this actually create the Forms root, and if so what service name do i need to use cause com.sun.star.form.Forms doesn't appear to be it. perhaps there is an easier way to bind one field value to a combobox and display the list from another field but i cannot find it. tried using a select statement that returns two fields but no joy. anyway, any guidance much appreciated. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [dev] Unicode---Give us all of it!
Stephan Bergmann wrote: I doubt that it is that many places that need to be changed. (For example, what do you think needs to be done for text import/export?) The obvious changes for text import: - Separator characters are user-supplied, so they can no longer be handled as a sal_Unicode. - Where fixed field width is used, characters instead of code units have to be counted. The less obvious ones start to appear once you look through the details of implementations like the preview in the dialog. Niklas - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [dev] Bad PRJNAMEs
Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany wrote: Hi Stephan, Attached are two quick and dirty scripts that worked for me (within Hamburg build environment on a Linux box) to find all the places where PRJNAME is probably set wrongly (see below). Feel free to fix those you feel responsible for. In case nobody already volunteered to fix the zillions of offapi-located occurances, I do so. (which probably is better than lots of people adding this module to their own CWS.) Ciao Frank I am not yet aware of anybody else volunteering, so go ahead Frank. -Stephan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [dev] Unicode---Give us all of it!
Michael Meeks wrote: [...] Use sal_uInt32 to represent individual Unicode encoded characters and add any necessary base functionality to rtl::OUString (e.g., operating on the individual Unicode encoded characters represented by an instance of rtl::OUString). There's no chance then of switching to UTF-8 as an underlying string representation :-) and saving a measurable chunk of our string overhead ? I doubt that we can get the whole of OOo behind such a change. For one, changing rtl::OUString in any way would be incompatible. For another, using rtl::OString + RTL_TEXTENCODING_UTF8 instead of rtl::OUString would be a huge amount of work. But, you are right, the problems with UTF-16 that my original posting tries to address are similar to the problems with UTF-8 (only, with UTF-8 they are much more apparent). -Stephan Interesting mail anyhow, Regards, Michael. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [dev] Unicode---Give us all of it!
Niklas Nebel wrote: Stephan Bergmann wrote: I doubt that it is that many places that need to be changed. (For example, what do you think needs to be done for text import/export?) The obvious changes for text import: - Separator characters are user-supplied, so they can no longer be handled as a sal_Unicode. Speaking about matching strings: Canonical-equivalent (http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode4.0.0/ch03.pdf, D24) Unicode sequences (e.g., U+006F LATIN SMALL LETTER O, U+0308 COMBINING DIAERESIS is canonical-equivalent to U+00F6 LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS should be treated as being identical. So when a user-supplied separator is specified as U+006F,U+0308, it should match U+00F6 in the imported text, and vice versa. (This is probably handled most easily by converting all input to some Unicode Normalization Form.) Whether you want to address this issue together with or independent of the surrogates issue I cannot say. - Where fixed field width is used, characters instead of code units have to be counted. I don't know, but fixed to N characters might or might not be as useful/useless a concept as fixed to N UTF-16 code units. -Stephan The less obvious ones start to appear once you look through the details of implementations like the preview in the dialog. Niklas - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[dev] Loading an unregistered CSV-database in OOo-Basic
Hello, my goal is to load an unregistered CSV-database in an OOo-Basic script, but so far I failed with my attempts. According to the AndrewBase.odt document, Listings 29 and 30, it should be easily possible to load a database without registering it first, if you use an URL. This works fine with OOo-Databases and possibly others, but it does not work with CSV-files. Here's the script-snippet: Service = createUnoService(com.sun.star.sdb.DatabaseContext) DS = Service.GetByName(file:///C:/Test2.csv) Interaction = createUnoService(com.sun.star.sdb.InteractionHandler) Con = DS.ConnectWithCompletion(Interaction) It works fine if I use e.g. file:///C:/TestDatabase.odb instead of the Test2.csv. With CSV-files it gives me an error like There's no sdbc-driver for the external data source[...] (Don't know the exact message, since I use a german localized version). I've tried many various things now, e.g. connecting thru a certain driver for flat-files, etc. When connecting with an XDriver, the connect() method simply returns NULL, hence I don't know what's wrong with it. I hope you can help me. Regards, Daniel Albuschat -- eat(this); // delicious suicide - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [dev] Loading an unregistered CSV-database in OOo-Basic
Hi Daniel, Daniel Albuschat schrieb: Hello, my goal is to load an unregistered CSV-database in an OOo-Basic script, but so far I failed with my attempts. According to the AndrewBase.odt document, Listings 29 and 30, it should be easily possible to load a database without registering it first, if you use an URL. This works fine with OOo-Databases and possibly others, but it does not work with CSV-files. Here's the script-snippet: Service = createUnoService(com.sun.star.sdb.DatabaseContext) you have to use the com.sun.star.sdbc.DriverManager for those purposes. In the Dev-Guide you will found how to connect with flat files. Regards Peter - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [dev] Loading an unregistered CSV-database in OOo-Basic
2006/11/13, Peter Eberlein [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Daniel Albuschat schrieb: my goal is to load an unregistered CSV-database in an OOo-Basic script, but so far I failed with my attempts. [snip] Service = createUnoService(com.sun.star.sdb.DatabaseContext) you have to use the com.sun.star.sdbc.DriverManager for those purposes. In the Dev-Guide you will found how to connect with flat files. Thanks for your fast reply. I've already tried using a specific driver for this. Here's the code I've put together: aDriver = createUnoService(com.sun.star.comp.sdbc.flat.ODriver) xDriver = createUnoService(com.sun.star.sdbc.Driver,aDriver) Con = xDriver.Connect(sdbc:flat:C:/Test2.csv,SomeEmptyProp) So there are several problems with this: a) The path should be an URL (solved) b) The path is only the base of the filename, the extension will be given as a separate parameter, which leads to c) I don't know how to specify multiple values in Connect()'s second parameter. I'm sure you can help me with this. :-) Thanks again, Daniel Albuschat -- eat(this); // delicious suicide - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [dev] Loading an unregistered CSV-database in OOo-Basic
Peter Eberlein schrieb: Hi Daniel, Daniel Albuschat schrieb: Hello, Here's the script-snippet: Service = createUnoService(com.sun.star.sdb.DatabaseContext) you have to use the com.sun.star.sdbc.DriverManager for those purposes. In the Dev-Guide you will found how to connect with flat files. may be the following will help you (not tested): Dim mDBPropertiesText(7) As New com.sun.star.beans.PropertyValue mDBPropertiesText(0).Name = Extension mDBPropertiesText(0).Value = csv mDBPropertiesText(1).Name = CharSet mDBPropertiesText(1).Value = System mDBPropertiesText(2).Name = FixedLength mDBPropertiesText(2).Value = false mDBPropertiesText(3).Name = HeaderLine mDBPropertiesText(3).Value = false mDBPropertiesText(4).Name = FieldDelimiter mDBPropertiesText(4).Value = , mDBPropertiesText(5).Name = StringDelimiter mDBPropertiesText(5).Value = mDBPropertiesText(6).Name = DecimalDelimiter mDBPropertiesText(6).Value = mDBPropertiesText(7).Name = ThousandDelimiter mDBPropertiesText(7).Value = sDatabaseURL = sdbc:flat: file:///x:/MyFile.csv oEnvironment = createUnoService(com.sun.star.sdbc.DriverManager) oConnection = oEnvironment.getConnectionWithInfo(sDatabaseURL,mDBPropertiesText()) Peter - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [dev] Loading an unregistered CSV-database in OOo-Basic
2006/11/13, Peter Eberlein [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Peter Eberlein schrieb: Daniel Albuschat schrieb: Here's the script-snippet: Service = createUnoService(com.sun.star.sdb.DatabaseContext) you have to use the com.sun.star.sdbc.DriverManager for those purposes. In the Dev-Guide you will found how to connect with flat files. may be the following will help you (not tested): Dim mDBPropertiesText(7) As New com.sun.star.beans.PropertyValue mDBPropertiesText(0).Name = Extension mDBPropertiesText(0).Value = csv mDBPropertiesText(1).Name = CharSet mDBPropertiesText(1).Value = System mDBPropertiesText(2).Name = FixedLength mDBPropertiesText(2).Value = false mDBPropertiesText(3).Name = HeaderLine mDBPropertiesText(3).Value = false mDBPropertiesText(4).Name = FieldDelimiter mDBPropertiesText(4).Value = , mDBPropertiesText(5).Name = StringDelimiter mDBPropertiesText(5).Value = mDBPropertiesText(6).Name = DecimalDelimiter mDBPropertiesText(6).Value = mDBPropertiesText(7).Name = ThousandDelimiter mDBPropertiesText(7).Value = sDatabaseURL = sdbc:flat: file:///x:/MyFile.csv oEnvironment = createUnoService(com.sun.star.sdbc.DriverManager) oConnection = oEnvironment.getConnectionWithInfo(sDatabaseURL,mDBPropertiesText()) This works perfectly! Thanks a bunch. I'm very sorry I have to ask another -- this time more stupid -- question :-) A CSV-files has no tables, so how do I create an SQL-statement to select from? Or - what's the way to iterate thru the datasets, if not using createStatement/ executeQuery? Daniel -- eat(this); // delicious suicide - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [dev] Loading an unregistered CSV-database in OOo-Basic
Daniel Albuschat schrieb: I'm very sorry I have to ask another -- this time more stupid -- question :-) A CSV-files has no tables, so how do I create an SQL-statement to select from? Or - what's the way to iterate thru the datasets, if not using createStatement/ executeQuery? Of course you can use this methods. The table name is the name of the file without the extension. If you want to use relations in queries, perhaps the Database-URL is the folder name, but that's only a guess. Peter - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [dev] Loading an unregistered CSV-database in OOo-Basic
2006/11/13, Peter Eberlein [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Daniel Albuschat schrieb: I'm very sorry I have to ask another -- this time more stupid -- question :-) A CSV-files has no tables, so how do I create an SQL-statement to select from? Or - what's the way to iterate thru the datasets, if not using createStatement/ executeQuery? Of course you can use this methods. The table name is the name of the file without the extension. Ah, that's the bit I was missing. I'll be able to finish my little function now, finally. :-) Thanks again, Daniel Albuschat -- eat(this); // delicious suicide - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [dev] OpenOffice Build Problem
Hi Indraveni, On Saturday, 2006-11-11 07:35:03 +, Indraveni wrote: So I tried to execute from the command prompt, but there are no commands like soffice or oowriter etc.., there is a command openoffice.org-2.0, the following are there error messages when i used this command.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] btw, running applications as root is generally a bad idea.. Anyway, I wonder why ``openoffice.org-2.0'' should be an executable command created by an OOo package. Are you sure the .deb you generated from the original source tree did place it there? /usr/bin/openoffice.org-2.0: line 2: /etc/openoffice.org-2.0/program/soffice: No such file or directory /usr/bin/openoffice.org-2.0: line 2: exec: /etc/openoffice.org-2.0/program/soffice: cannot execute: No such file or directory Of course not. That's not the location where it is installed to. So I checked under /opt, its installed like openoffice.org-2.1, where as /etc/openoffice.org-2.0 is created a link to /opt/openoffice.org-2.0. So for the time being I tried to execute using the /opt directly as follows. [EMAIL PROTECTED]/opt/openoffice.org2.1/program/soffice javaldx: Could not find a Java Runtime Environment! no suitable windowing system found, exiting. As you're running the app as root, is root authorized to connect to the X display? Is there an X running at all? Try as an ordinary user who already runs X. Eike -- OOo/SO Calc core developer. Number formatter stricken i18n transpositionizer. OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't send personal mail to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] account, which I use for mailing lists only and don't read from outside Sun. Thanks. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [dev] Calc, disable saving in Excel 5/95 format?
Mathias Bauer schrieb: Kirill S. Palagin wrote: Hello. How do I disallow saving in particular format (specifically Excel 5/95)? I need to do this because Calc produces damaged file (see http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=32785) and I can not rely on users avoiding this format. I already answered that on the users list but for the records I repeat it here: Go to the share/registry/modules/org/openoffice/TypeDetection/Filter folder and open the file fcfg_calc_filters.xcu in a text editor. Search for the string MS Excel 5.0/95. In the line below remove the word EXPORT and now the filter should work as a pure import filter. If that is fine for you I could tell you how you can deploy this change as an extension. Of course packages are the best way to make such changes. Because the share layer will might be changed if the next update will be installed (!) ... your changes there will be lost then. A package can be installed using Tools-Extension Manager Please use the attached file to disable the MS Excel 5.0 filter. If you wish to make changes inside the package, you can unzip it (internaly it's a normal zip file). Open the XCU file and edit it. Ciao, Mathias Ciao Andreas - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
