Re: Table of Contents Usability?
On 24.10.2012 12:14, Rory O'Farrell wrote: On Wed, 24 Oct 2012 10:53:47 +0100 Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote: A recent thread on the en-Forum threw up problems with the interface of the Table of Contents generation. Perhaps Kevin Grignon might care to note this as an area worthy of improvement. http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7t=56908 A further note on this in http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=106t=56976p=250998 Maybe also user generated indices which cannot be hyperlinked. This is strange as well, as it seems to be natural that any generated table links to the references giving the page number, but not allowing one to hyperlink the entries. Hence exporting such documents to PDF will have hyperlinks on the TOC, but not on the user generated tables. (Rather, one needs to use a cumbersome trick that has to do with unused heading levels; something a regular writer user won't know about.) ---rony
Re: ACE12: odp-template for AOO-presentations ?
Hi imacat, On 21.10.2012 09:37, imacat wrote: I have uploaded mine. You are welcome to try it. ^_*' http://templates.openoffice.org/en/node/8932 thank you very much for sharing, looks great to me! ---rony
Re: ACE12: odp-template for AOO-presentations ?
On 21.10.2012 14:50, imacat wrote: On 2012/10/21 20:13, Rony G. Flatscher said: On 21.10.2012 12:58, Rony G. Flatscher (Apache) wrote: On 21.10.2012 09:37, imacat wrote: I have uploaded mine. You are welcome to try it. ^_*' http://templates.openoffice.org/en/node/8932 thank you very much for sharing, looks great to me! Hmm, there seems to be a problem, however: if running a slide show the title page orb gets clipped and the remainders of a white rectangle becomes visible. Tried to make sure that the orb is at the very front in the master layout, but to no avail. ---rony P.S.: Exporting to PDF will leet the title page intact. I have uploaded a new version. It seems that I should not play with SVG. :p The current version should have this issue fixed. Please try again. Thank you. That works great now, thank you very much! ---rony
ACE12: odp-template for AOO-presentations ?
Hi there, is there an odp template available for AOO presentations (employing the latest AOO/ASF art work) at the upcoming Apache Con Europe 2012 in Sinsheim? If so, where can one obtain it? TIA, ---rony
Re: 3.4.1 Crashes on MacOS 10.7.4
On 25.08.2012 11:56, Andreas Säger wrote: Am 25.08.2012 09:44, Fernando Cassia wrote: On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 4:18 AM, Andreas Säger ville...@t-online.de wrote: Most of this office suite runs very well without Java. Of course most does not include the database component. http://www.openoffice.org/download/common/java.html Java is required for complete OpenOffice (OpenOffice.org) functionality. Java is mainly required for the HSQLDB database engine (used by our database product Base) and to make use of accessibility and assistive technologies. Furthermore some wizards rely on Java technology FC Even the database component works well without Java. Connect to some non-JDBC database, add queries and forms. For reporting you can still use the Calc component. The most important core functionality is still there, otherwise we could not print serial letters without Java. The Java based wizards are totally counterproductive anyway. They hide more functionality than they are able to offer. Mind that Java is just a major annoyance for many computer users (and for Microsoft of course). I ran OOo 2.x without Java for many years and I am a comparatively heavy user of Base. Just a few, brief remarks: * Java adds important functionality to AOO, like it or not. There are extensions, components written in Java that are helpful, like it or not. The AOO scirpting framework is written in Java, hence removing Java removes the ability to add and use scripting languages besides Basic and Python. Ad database: how can you run HSQL without Java, which is the default base engine AOO has been using for many years now? Removing Java would cripple AOO bad times (for other reasons as well). * Problem at hand, some Java installation on Mac, which causes problems to one person so far. Shooting in the dark and pointing to untested Javas for MacOSX is not a solution, but adds to the grief. So, as long as there is no correct error/problem description, please do not point to solutions that are none. Java on MacOSX has been *very* special from the day that Apple tweaked it to get it into its UI and operating system the way Apple deemed to be the correct way. Until Sun/Oracle has not completely implemented all aspects of that special Apple Java support, and tested it and made a 32-bit version available to it, I regard any solution pointing to OpenJDK as adding confusion and problems to the table. And a question ad MacOSX port of AOO: * One question I would have is: why is the MacOSX version of AOO compiled for 32-bit only? Are there any problems compiling and distributing a 64-bit version for MacOSX, now that the newer versions seem to be 64-bit ? ---rony
Re: Developer ID for digitally signing Apple OSX releases?
On 01.08.2012 06:08, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: Am Mittwoch, 1. August 2012 um 02:41 schrieb Rob Weir: On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 7:23 PM, Keith N. McKenna keith.mcke...@comcast.net wrote: With the release of OSX Mountain Lion and its new Gatekeeper feature I wanted to ask if any thought had been given by the community of applying to Apple for a Developer ID. My limited understanding is that by signing the installation files with the Developer ID it automatically unlocks the gatekeeper and allows the application to run. Otherwise there is a short process that one must go through to change the security settings for the application allowing it to open. We'd like to do code signing, not only for Mac but for Windows as well. Signed installers are the new normal and are expected by browser, anti-virus scanners and increasingly by operating systems. Although we have volunteers willing to do the build integration work, and funds available for acquiring certificates, we've been told that individual Apache projects may not do their own signing. The Apache Infrastructure team is trying to figure out some way that this can be done centrally. But no estimate for when this will happen. exactly and at the moment we can only wait, I have no idea how we can help further at the moment. Any ideas are welcome. In the meantime we should add a note about the new Gatekeeper of Mountain Lion. It's a one time ctrl-click or opening via the context menu. After that you can run it as normal without any further dialog from the system. I tried it out and forget to take screenshot to document it. From another opensource project: they are contemplating of using a digital key service which would enable them to sign their code for Linux, MacOSX and Windows, http://codesigning.ksoftware.net/.. Maybe infra is attempting to do somehting like them, otherwise they could check them out (or other such services). ---rony
Re: trunk build breaks in qadevOOo because of missing class TextFitToSizeType
On 30.07.2012 14:36, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote:
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 10:08:05AM +0200, Jürgen Schmidt wrote:
On 7/28/12 11:57 PM, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote:
Hi Regina,
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 6:41 AM, Regina Henschel
rb.hensc...@t-online.de wrote:
Hi,
I start to build trunk with MSVC Express on WinXP. The build breaks in
qadevOOo with error message
C:\AOO_2012_07_git\trunk\main\qadevOOo\runner\util\ValueChanger.java:378:
cannot find symbol
symbol : class TextFitToSizeType
location: package com.sun.star.drawing
if (oldValue instanceof com.sun.star.drawing.TextFitToSizeType){
^
Reason seems to be, that the changes in
r1366087: #116001# TextToFitSize item/property optimized to boolean
are incomplete.
IMHO besides of being incomplete, they are incompatible, and thus the
API changes should be reverted: this kind of incompatible API changes
should happen only on mayor versions, they should wait for AOO 4; in
the meantime, the solution seems to be:
in general yes and I would agree but in this case Armin told me that the
implementation was always different and the IDL was wrong.
It doesn't matter what the implementation did internally, API users
don't care about implementation details. And it is a mistake to assume
that no API clients are using this API. In fact, it is more justified to
asume it is being used, as it's been documented in the SDK example:
main/odk/examples/DevelopersGuide/Drawing/TextDemo.java
It also seems logical to assume that people read the documentation and
follow the examples ;)
We did such
changes in the past as well but always very seldom and carefully.
But this change is *not* carefully done: the change is not tracked in
the IDL documentation; as API user, I would expect a @deprecated tag in
the IDL, not simple removal without further information (besides the
Developer's Guide being updated too
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/DevGuide/Drawings/General_Drawing_Properties)
It doesn't help to keep wrong IDL types that never have worked and were
not really used.
This is a wrong assumption, see the example from the SDK quoted above.
You cannot mesure how many API users are using this API, but assuming
that some people actually read the examples and follow them seems more
reasonable.
+1
FWIW, here a snippet that references a constant from that type (existing as an
ooRexx sample for
more than five years and being employed by students!):
... cut ...
proportional = bsf.getConstant(com.sun.star.drawing.TextFitToSizeType,
PROPORTIONAL)
xShapeProps~setPropertyValue(TextFitToSize, proportional)
... cut ...
---rony
Re: [RELEAASE][3.4.1]: propose the next build for 3.4.1 based on revision 1364583
On 24.07.2012 11:24, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: On 7/24/12 10:58 AM, RGB ES wrote: 2012/7/24 Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie: It looks as if the entire column of Windows rc candidates does not have correct permissions. I tried four or five in that column ad got 403 Forbidden errors. The Ubuntu candidate D/Led OK. That's because the builds are not ready yet: only the 32 bits debs are ready so a bit of patience is needed ;) Regards Ricardo In general we put a short mail here on the list when the builds are available MacOS + Windows should be available and I am currently updating the wiki. Probably a stupid question (tried cwiki search and google to no avail): what is the current URL for the download page for the 3.4.1 RCs (currently interested in the MacOS version)? ---rony
Re: [RELEAASE][3.4.1]: propose the next build for 3.4.1 based on revision 1364583
On 24.07.2012 18:45, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: Hi Rony, On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Rony G. Flatscher (Apache) r...@apache.org wrote: Probably a stupid question (tried cwiki search and google to no avail): what is the current URL for the download page for the 3.4.1 RCs (currently interested in the MacOS version)? if nothing is broken, it should be as easy as going to the main download page: http://www.openoffice.org/download/ The last item will lead you to https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Development+Snapshot+Builds Hi Ariel, thank you *very* much, will bookmark this link! Best regards, ---rony
Re: MacOSX: problems deploying an extension in shared mode
On 22.07.2012 14:07, Rony G. Flatscher (Apache) wrote: In the context of creating a new version of BSF4ooRexx for MacOSX as well (http://sourceforge.net/projects/bsf4oorexx/files/GA/BSF4ooRexx-410.20120618-GA/ooRexx411WithBSF4ooRexx-410.20120618-i386-MacOSX.pkg.zip/download) the automatic installation of an oxt-extension to AOO 3.4.0 to add ooRexx as a macro language directly to AOO, there are errors with the MacOSX version. If you download the package from the above link you'll get ooRexx and BSF4ooRexx for MacOSX in 32-Bit (as OOo is still 32-bit on MacOSX) installed and both ooRexx and BSF4ooRexx (a Rexx function package camouflaging Java as the dynamically typed ooRexx) are operational. Unfortunately, the OOo extension named ScriptProviderForooRexx.oxt cannot be added to the MacOSX AOO 3.4 installation using unopkg! Here a few infos to the locations and the scripts that are run as sudo with the error message: wu114123:sources rony$ *ls -al /Applications/OpenOffice.org.app/Contents/program/unopkg** lrwxr-xr-x@ 1 rony admin 10 Apr 19 08:28 /Applications/OpenOffice.org.app/Contents/program/unopkg - unopkg.bin -r-xr-xr-x@ 1 rony admin 13568 Apr 19 08:28 /Applications/OpenOffice.org.app/Contents/program/unopkg.bin wu114123:sources rony$ *ls -al /System/Library/Frameworks/BSF4ooRexx.framework/Libraries/ScriptProviderForooRexx.oxt* -rwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 330778 Jun 15 17:24 /System/Library/Frameworks/BSF4ooRexx.framework/Libraries/ScriptProviderForooRexx.oxt wu114123:sources rony$ *sudo /Applications/OpenOffice.org.app/Contents/program/unopkg add --shared /System/Library/Frameworks/BSF4ooRexx.framework/Libraries/ScriptProviderForooRexx.oxt* *ERROR: Error binding package: vnd.sun.star.expand:$UNO_SHARED_PACKAGES_CACHE/uno_packages/Qpgmug_/ScriptProviderForooRexx.oxt* Cause: an error occured during file opening unopkg failed. There is no directory named Qpgmug_ in the shared cache directory; not sure why. --- Trying to do the same from AOO's Tools - Extension Manager is not successful either, if intending to install for All users with the scarce error message an error occured during file opening. However adding this extension via AOO's Tools - Extension Manager for Only for me works o.k.! Restarting AOO, and the extension is available and operational allowing ooRexx to be used as a macro language! Using the user extension has another irregularity: if using for the first time in a totally fresh AOO session Tools - Macros - Run Macro and then executing any ooRexx macro will yield an error (unable to load language). However, if first doing a Tools - Macros - Organize Macros - ooRexx and editing any ooRexx macro and running it via the edit window menu, ooRexx can be later found via Tools - Macros - Run Macro as well. [Using the oxt-extension on Windows and Linux with AOO, OOo, LO works in shared mode, and AFAIK there are no anomalities that I know of.] Any ideas, what might be wrong, what I could do? [To duplicate: just install the MacOSX package and then run the above commands from a command line to see for yourself.] TIA for any hints, ideas and suggestions, ---rony Just tested this with the developer snapshot build 3.4.1 for English (en-US), r1364591 http://people.apache.org/%7Ejsc/developer-snapshots/r1364591/macos/Apache_OpenOffice_incubating_3.4.1_MacOS_x86_install_en-US.dmg with the same behaviour.. Filed a new issue such that this remains documented: https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=120359. ---rony
MacOSX: problems deploying an extension in shared mode
In the context of creating a new version of BSF4ooRexx for MacOSX as well (http://sourceforge.net/projects/bsf4oorexx/files/GA/BSF4ooRexx-410.20120618-GA/ooRexx411WithBSF4ooRexx-410.20120618-i386-MacOSX.pkg.zip/download) the automatic installation of an oxt-extension to AOO 3.4.0 to add ooRexx as a macro language directly to AOO, there are errors with the MacOSX version. If you download the package from the above link you'll get ooRexx and BSF4ooRexx for MacOSX in 32-Bit (as OOo is still 32-bit on MacOSX) installed and both ooRexx and BSF4ooRexx (a Rexx function package camouflaging Java as the dynamically typed ooRexx) are operational. Unfortunately, the OOo extension named ScriptProviderForooRexx.oxt cannot be added to the MacOSX AOO 3.4 installation using unopkg! Here a few infos to the locations and the scripts that are run as sudo with the error message: wu114123:sources rony$ *ls -al /Applications/OpenOffice.org.app/Contents/program/unopkg** lrwxr-xr-x@ 1 rony admin 10 Apr 19 08:28 /Applications/OpenOffice.org.app/Contents/program/unopkg - unopkg.bin -r-xr-xr-x@ 1 rony admin 13568 Apr 19 08:28 /Applications/OpenOffice.org.app/Contents/program/unopkg.bin wu114123:sources rony$ *ls -al /System/Library/Frameworks/BSF4ooRexx.framework/Libraries/ScriptProviderForooRexx.oxt* -rwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 330778 Jun 15 17:24 /System/Library/Frameworks/BSF4ooRexx.framework/Libraries/ScriptProviderForooRexx.oxt wu114123:sources rony$ *sudo /Applications/OpenOffice.org.app/Contents/program/unopkg add --shared /System/Library/Frameworks/BSF4ooRexx.framework/Libraries/ScriptProviderForooRexx.oxt* *ERROR: Error binding package: vnd.sun.star.expand:$UNO_SHARED_PACKAGES_CACHE/uno_packages/Qpgmug_/ScriptProviderForooRexx.oxt* Cause: an error occured during file opening unopkg failed. There is no directory named Qpgmug_ in the shared cache directory; not sure why. --- Trying to do the same from AOO's Tools - Extension Manager is not successful either, if intending to install for All users with the scarce error message an error occured during file opening. However adding this extension via AOO's Tools - Extension Manager for Only for me works o.k.! Restarting AOO, and the extension is available and operational allowing ooRexx to be used as a macro language! Using the user extension has another irregularity: if using for the first time in a totally fresh AOO session Tools - Macros - Run Macro and then executing any ooRexx macro will yield an error (unable to load language). However, if first doing a Tools - Macros - Organize Macros - ooRexx and editing any ooRexx macro and running it via the edit window menu, ooRexx can be later found via Tools - Macros - Run Macro as well. [Using the oxt-extension on Windows and Linux with AOO, OOo, LO works in shared mode, and AFAIK there are no anomalities that I know of.] Any ideas, what might be wrong, what I could do? [To duplicate: just install the MacOSX package and then run the above commands from a command line to see for yourself.] TIA for any hints, ideas and suggestions, ---rony
Ad scripting languages (Re: OpenOffice in Java
Hi Andreas, On 07.07.2012 17:36, Andreas Säger wrote: Am 06.07.2012 16:26, Rony G. Flatscher (Apache) wrote: In addtion, the very important AOO scripting framework is totally Java based. Why can I run all non-Java macros on a machine with no Java? not sure, what you are after. AFAIK, originally there was StarBasic implemented as the scripting language for OpenOffice (later renamed to OpenOffice.org Basic) and part of it. Then, later, Python got added as a scripting language, by implementing a Python UNO binding. That was it for quite some time as it is everything else but a trivial task to create the infrastructure to add a new scripting language to OpenOffice from scratch for programmers who might have no working knowledge about the UNO framework. Then later (2004?, 2005?), a Java scripting framework got added to OpenOffice. This Java scripting framework allowed in the first place to finally add JavaScript (Rhino, a very popular Java implemenation of JavaScript) as a scripting language to OpenOffice. In addtion BeanShell (interpreted Java) was added as an additional scripting languages to OpenOffice as well taking advantage of the new Java scripting framework. Because there has been a Java scripting framework for OpenOffice it has become a feasible job to add any scripting language to OpenOffice for which a Java implementation existed, without the need of an intimate knowledge of the UNO framework. A feasible example of adding scripting languages to OpenOffice via the Java scripting framework would be all the Apache BSF scripting languages (cf. http://commons.apache.org/bsf/). Starting with Java 1.6 the javax.script package got introduced into Java which could be used to add new scripting languages to OpenOffice as well, using the existing Java scripting framework. The interesting thing here is, that one can use the Java scripting framework for OpenOffice also for scripting languages, that are implemented in C++, believe it or not! This may sound strange, but in effect, this is simpler than starting from scratch to create some UNO binding for a new scripting language for programmers who have no intimate knowledge of the UNO framework and its implementations. An example for such a possibility is the oxt-package that adds the opensource and human centric scripting language ooRexx (cf. http://www.ooRexx.org) to OpenOffice using Java as the bridge (there is an ooRexx package, that has extensive Java support via JNI for ooRexx, camouflaging all of Java as the dynamically typed, caseless programming language ooRexx, and does so successfully and fast, cf. http://sourceforge.net/projects/bsf4oorexx/, the oxt-package is part of the distribution and gets automatically installed with BSF4ooRexx, if OpenOffice is installed on the machine). --- Two years ago, there was a presentation of an OpenOffice introspection tool implemented in ooRexx, which can be used interactively or via all the OpenOffice scripting languages via the dispatch interface, which is able to create great overviews of the UNO objects (and/or UNO classes) you have in hand, including links that lead to the OpenOffice API documentation on the Internet. Here is a link to a brief tutorial which might be interesting for OpenOffice developers, hence giving links to the slides, the brief tutorial on how to use it from OpenOffice.org Basic, Java, JavaScript, ooRexx, and Python: * slides: o http://wi.wu.ac.at/rgf/rexx/misc/OOoCon/2010_Budapest/UNO%5fAPI%5fInfo%2dOOoCon%2d20100902%2epdf * tutorial/readme: o http://wi.wu.ac.at/rgf/rexx/misc/OOoCon/2010_Budapest/read%2dme%2dUNO%5fAPI%5finfo%2ehtml%2epdf * result of introspecting an UNO writer object on-the-fly, one level only, yielding 11 pages of documentation: o http://wi.wu.ac.at/rgf/rexx/misc/OOoCon/2010_Budapest/UNO%5fAPI%5fINFO%2dcom%2esun%2estar%2edocument%2eOfficeDocument%2bcom%2e%2e%2e%2d2010%2d08%2d29T23%5f11%5f12%2e592000%2epdf * result of introspecting an UNO writer object on-the-fly, two levels, yielding 55 (!) pages of documentation: o http://wi.wu.ac.at/rgf/rexx/misc/OOoCon/2010_Budapest/UNO%5fAPI%5fINFO%2dcom%2esun%2estar%2edocument%2eOfficeDocument%2bcom%2e%2e%2e%2d2010%2d08%2d29T23%5f11%5f27%2e749000%2epdf As you (hopefully) see, having a Java based scripting framework is a boon for OpenOffice. It allows/enables programmers to rather quickly make a scripting language available to OpenOffice taking advantage of the Java scripting framework. ---rony
Re: OpenOffice in Java
On 05.07.2012 22:04, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: Am Donnerstag, 5. Juli 2012 um 19:57 schrieb Dennis E. Hamilton: ... cut ... 3. Are you aware that the tendency is to remove Java dependencies from OpenOffice? I don't know the reasoning, but it is happening. AFAICT there was quite an anti-Java stance before the OpenJDK came along by different groups. Therefore, I was surprised to read this statement, because for quite some time there has been no Java-bashing, which IMHO would just simply be stupid, unfprofessional and actually harm AOO in todays world. really, I don't see it at AOO at the moment. I still recommend Java for extensions because it's much easier to develop and to maintain on all platforms. +1 In addtion, the very important AOO scripting framework is totally Java based. (BTW, this does not mean that one is only able to deploy Java-implemented script languages, but it means that it is very easy to add any Java-based scripting language in addition to AOO. As another example there is an oxt-package that adds the C++ implemented ooRexx scripting language to AOO/LO exploiting/using the Java based scripting framework, and it works well and fast.) ---rony
Homepage still showing 1 million downloads in sidebar ...
FYI, http://www.openoffice.org/ shows the following text in the right sidebar: Apache OpenOffice 3.4 Blows Past 1M Downloads After last week's release of Apache OpenOffice 3.4, the project is pleased to note the strong positive reception by users and the press. Apache OpenOffice 3.4 has been downloaded over one million times! http://www.openoffice.org/news/aoo34-1M.html As there are more than 3M by now, this text should either get removed (replaced by another up-to-date news item) or constantly updated. ---rony
Re: a question of Export custom file format?
On 07.06.2012 18:02, Oliver Brinzing wrote: Hi, I write a extention. In my extention how can I get openoffice program path. Sub Test Dim oService as Object oService = CreateUnoService(com.sun.star.util.PathSubstitution) ' see http://www.openoffice.org/api/docs/common/ref/com/sun/star/util/PathSubstitution.html for details MsgBox oService.getSubstituteVariableValue(inst) ' get your Extension Path ' http://www.openoffice.org/api/docs/common/ref/com/sun/star/deployment/PackageInformationProvider.html oService = getDefaultContext().getByName(/singletons/com.sun.star.deployment.PackageInformationProvider) MsgBox oService. getPackageLocation(my.extension.identifier) End Sub Regards Oliver Here is an example (ooRexx, listPathSettings.rxo) which lists all path settings available in AOO to .stdout: xContext = UNO.connect()-- connect to server and retrieve the XContext object XMcf = xContext~getServiceManager -- retrieve XMultiComponentFactory oPathSettings=XMcf~createInstanceWithContext(com.sun.star.util.PathSettings, xContext) xpaths=oPathSettings~XPropertySet -- get XPropertySet interface paths=xpaths~getPropertySetInfo~getProperties -- get the sequence of properties do i=1 to paths~items -- iterate over all properties (all path names) name=paths[i]~name -- get the Property's name call printPathSetting i, name, xpaths~getPropertyValue(name) -- display on .stdout end -- end of program, start of directives (each led in by two colons '::') ::requires UNO.CLS -- get the UNO/OOo support, which itself gets the Java support ::routine printPathSetting/* print the PathSetting name with its value(s) */ use arg i, name, propValue tmpStr=i~right(3): pp(name) resArr=processPathUrls(propValue) -- returns array say tmpStr || detTabs(tmpStr) pp(resArr[1]) do k=2 to resArr~items say 090909x pp(resArr[k]) end return detTabs: procedure /* determine indentation, depends on length of path name */ parse arg string len=length(string) if len8 then return 090909x -- three tabs else if len16 then return 0909x -- two tabs else if len24 then return 09x -- one tab elsereturn -- no tab (empty string) /* take care of special case that multiple paths are encoded in a single value (instead of defining them as an array of java.lang.String; the URL-style will delimit different paths with the semi-colon char (;) on all platforms; will return a Rexx array of strings representing the defined URLs rendered to the operating system's file system representation. */ processPathUrls: procedure use arg propValue resArr=.array~new if propValue~string~left(18)==[Ljava.lang.String then -- a String array in hand do if propValue~items=0 then -- empty array resArr~append() else do k=1 to propValue~items resArr~appendAll(convertPathUrl(propValue[k])) end end else -- value is a string already (representing single path) do resArr~appendAll(convertPathUrl(propValue)) end return resArr /* parse string, could be that more than one path is encoded and delimited by semi-colon, return an array of converted strings */ convertPathUrl: procedure parse arg str arr=.array~new if str= then -- path is explicitly an empty string arr~append(str) else do while str parse var str before ; str -- parse using ; as delimiter arr~append(uno.convertFromUrl(before)) -- turn URL into opsys' path notation end return arr You'll get the idea looking at the code, such that you can map it to your preferred programming language. ---rony
Re: ODF Command Line Tools -- Request for community feedback
On 5/29/2012 3:49 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 4:21 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: For example, does JRuby pre-req a JDK version? -Rob I am 100% sure it runs both on the propietary Java one gets from java.com, (1.6 onwards, including JDK7) and also on OpenJDK (1.7 here on Linux). I know because I have run JRuby on both. It' s safe to say JRE or JDK 1.6 or higher is a requirement. All previous Java versions are EOL' d. If possible at all, the base line support should be Java 1.4 as long as possible as there are still quite a few Java deployments at that level (also 1.5) in the market despite Sun/Oracle putting the EOL death spell on Java 1.4 and 1.5. (Of course, support for 1.4 can only be granted, if it is possible to compile the ODF toolkit for target 1.4 and not using Java methods only available in Java 1.5 or higher, as http://incubator.apache.org/odftoolkit/odftoolkit-release-guide.html mandates 1.5 as a minimum JDK level.) ---rony
Little suggestion for improving the AOO 3.4 Release Notes slightly ...
In the process of checking the AOO 3.4 release notes, I did not find a link to Rob Weir's timeline https://blogs.apache.org/preview/OOo/?previewEntry=an_apache_openoffice_timeline which communicates how much work has gone into this project. Hence, I would suggest the inclusion of that link, such that interested readers of the AOO release notes can learn what has been done/achieved in the past eleven months. ---rony
writer: question ad defining a relative font-size for a character style that works in all paragraph styles
If this is the wrong e-mail list for user-questions, then please advise which one would be the correct one. --- Maybe someone on this list knows the answer/solution? Here is the problem to solve: in a writer file it should become possible to set sections of a text to a monotype font, where the font size should be 90% of the current font-size (e.g. Paragraph Style: Default or Paragraph Style: Footnote. The reason for reducing the font size relative to the Paragraph Style's defined font-size is, that monotyped words tend to be wider than serif fonts; by reducing the current size by 10% such monotyped text looks nice again. To solve the problem I created a Character Style named xyz and defined it to be: * Organizier: name=xyz, Linked with=- None -, Category: Custom Styles * Font: Western text font: Font=DejaVu Sans Mono, Typeface=Book, Size=90%, Language=German (Austria) * Background: Yellow 2 After saving the changes to this Character Style and studying the definition in the Organizer tab of the xyz character style gives: Normal position + DejaVu Sans Mono + 90% + RGB(255,255,153),Not Transparent + RGB(255,255,153),Not Transparent Assigning this Character Style to text in a Paragraph Style: Default, works as expected; the Default's Font size of 12pt, causes the xyz character styled text to be set to a font size of 10,8 (correct: 12*0.9 - 10.8). However if assigning the xyz character style to text in a Paragraph Style: Footnote also yields a size of 10.8pt as above: the Footnote paragraph style defines the font size to be 10pt, hence expecting the character styled text to be of size 9pt. However the xyz font-size is 10.8pt, making the xyz character styled text larger, not smaller than the surrounding text! Is this an expected behaviour? If so, is it possible to define character styles somehow to cause its text to be always 90% of the font size of the current paragraph style? How? TIA, ---rony
Re: writer: question ad defining a relative font-size for a character style that works in all paragraph styles
Hi Oliver, thank you very much for your answer! The defined 90% in your Character Style xyz is relative to the font size of the parent Character Style of xyz. You found the parent Character Style in the format dialog on pane Organizer, field Linked with. Change the font size of this Character Style and you will see the effect on text which has xyz applied. Did set this to none, because the Character Style Default is not allowed (pop-up warning to the effect that otherwise a recursion would occur), which seems to be the logical candidate. Currently, I have no simple solution at hand. But, you can go to http://http://user.services.openoffice.org/. Here you find a forum, may be in your native language. May be somebody there has a solution. Thank you *very* much for this link too, which I was not aware of at all! Best regards, ---rony
Re: codesnippets.services.openoffice.org ?
Rob, On 11.03.2012 03:26, Rob Weir wrote: On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 9:03 PM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote: Rob, This site is not hosted by oracle. It is another third party. Do you have the details on that, e.g., what 3rd party? We should probably have a conversation and ensure that suitable disclaimers are put in place and that we're not giving one 3rd party favorable access at the exclusion of others. Here's the pointer with the e-mail address of the hoster. Original Message Subject:Re: Just a minor remark: codesnippet pages look a little bit strange Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:49:39 +0100 From: Rony G. Flatscher (Apache) r...@apache.org Reply-To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Hi Dave, On 02.01.2012 18:39, Dave Fisher wrote: It is not hosted at Oracle, and has not been migrated. The site is powered by Apache AxKit and BestSolutions@ Nslookup yields: codesnippets.services.openoffice.org canonical name = ancamna.bestsolution.at. Name: ancamna.bestsolution.at Address: 94.198.139.11 Another job for the PPMC, Infrastructure, and/or Trademarks - make contact with bestsolutions @ contact in this case would probably be Tom.Schindl-a-t-bestsolution.at, who has been also very active in the Eclipse project AFAIK. Regards, ---rony HTH, ---rony
Just a minor remark: codesnippet pages look a little bit strange
Going to http://codesnippets.services.openoffice.org/index.xml displays the Codensippet homepage successfully. However it looks a little bit strange from its layout, due to the list on the top left which probably should be layed out in a single row. It is great that the codesnippets have made it through ! *Great job* and thanks for all the efforts! ---rony
Re: Just a minor remark: codesnippet pages look a little bit strange
Hi Dave, On 02.01.2012 18:39, Dave Fisher wrote: It is not hosted at Oracle, and has not been migrated. The site is powered by Apache AxKit and BestSolutions@ Nslookup yields: codesnippets.services.openoffice.org canonical name = ancamna.bestsolution.at. Name: ancamna.bestsolution.at Address: 94.198.139.11 Another job for the PPMC, Infrastructure, and/or Trademarks - make contact with bestsolutions @ contact in this case would probably be Tom.Schindl-a-t-bestsolution.at, who has been also very active in the Eclipse project AFAIK. Regards, ---rony
