Re: Re: [libreoffice-users] Installation version chaos

2015-04-17 Thread tonybsa

On 17/04/2015, at 19:05, Tom Davies  wrote:

> There's a tiny "gotcha" in there that i only noticed because i have done
> the same thing myself.  It's the . in
> sudo apt-get remove libreoffice*.*
> 
> Try again but this time without the extra * and the . before it;
> sudo apt-get remove libreoffice*

If you are using apt-get on Ubuntu (don't know about other versions of Linux) 
the best way to ensure that you have "removed" ALL Libreoffice information is

  sudo apt-get purge libreoffice?

Note: Use the ? mark not * and no spaces.

Hope this helps
Tony Bray
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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Installation version chaos

2015-04-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :)
Yeh, it looks like Tom C's "libreoffice*.* "  does affect all the
libreoffice files in linux too, also including ones without a dot.  I
thought i had spotted something but it didn't work in the way i'd expected
after all.

Apols and regards from
Tom :)




On 17 April 2015 at 21:38,  wrote:

> Getting a little off-topic, but...
>
> Even more confusingly for Windows users, in some contexts on Windows *.*
> matches all files, even those without any extension at all (similarly,
> libreoffice*.* would match all files starting "libreoffice", even if they
> don't contain a dot or extension). I think that's a throwback from DOS
> where all files had an up-to-8-character name and up-to-3-character
> extension, separated by an implied dot; *.* matched files with any number
> of characters for name and any number of characters for extension, where
> "any number" includes none.
>
> I don't like the way newer versions of Windows hide the extensions by
> default. Apart from the inconvenience when you want to change them, it
> makes it so much easier for a dodgy executable to look like a harmless text
> document by its icon, with no giveaway that it's got a .exe extension
> instead of .txt. One of the first things I do is set Explorer to show
> extensions so I can see and change them if necessary:
> - Click Organise > Folder and Search Options
> - "View" tab
> - Untick "Hide extensions for known file types"
> - OK
> Even then, some extensions (such as .lnk on shortcuts) are "super hidden"
> and still aren't shown, at least without a registry hack...
>
> Mark.
>
>
>
> Tom Davies wrote:
>
>> Hi :)
>> There's a tiny "gotcha" in there that i only noticed because i have done
>> the same thing myself.  It's the . in
>>
>> sudo apt-get remove libreoffice*.*
>>
>> Try again but this time without the extra * and the . before it;
>>
>> sudo apt-get remove libreoffice*
>>
>> Not all *nix files have a file-ending and dot.  It's not like Windows!
>> Windows hides it's .file-endings but almost always relies on them quite
>> heavily.  The end-result looks the same but can still trip people up.  My
>> pet bug-bear is how to rename a .html into a .txt and such-like but my
>> work-around is to just avoid using Windows and that solves most such
>> problems!
>>
>> Regards from
>> Tom :)
>>
>>
>>
>> On 17 April 2015 at 06:41, Andreas Säger  wrote:
>>
>>  Am 17.04.2015 um 06:58 schrieb Tom Cloyd:
>>>
 I'm running Kubuntu Linux - latest version, fully updated.

 I just downloaded "LibreOffice_4.4.2_Linux_x86_deb.tar.gz" and its
 associated helpfile. I removed all other *.tar.gz files from my software
 download archive.

 I removed my previous LO installation: sudo apt-get remove
 libreoffice*.*

 I unpacked each *.tar.gz file and installed it from its respective
 "DEBS"
 directory: sudo dpkg -i *.deb

 I launched my supposed new LO version.

 As always with a new install, I immediately check "Help > About..." to
 verify the install, and I get this:

 Version: 4.3.5.2
 Build ID: 3a87456aaa6a95c63eea1c1b3201acedf0751bd5

 Since that's the version I started with, prior to this upgrade attempt,

>>> I'm
>>>
 a bit surprised.

 That little "download available" icon is in the upper right corner of
 the
 LO window, as well.

 Perhaps there's a problem up in the mothership?

 Tom



>>> Hi Tom,
>>> Open a terminal and launch /opt/LibreOffice4.4./program/soffice
>>> Watch any output on the terminal.
>>>
>>> Oh, and don't forget to stop any "quick starter" instance of some
>>> LibreOffice installation, particularly while running an installation. I
>>> use to disable this useless anti-feature alltogether
>>> (menu:Tools>Options>Memory>"Systray Quickstart").
>>>
>>> Greetings,
>>> Andreas Säger
>>>
>>
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Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Office 4.2.0 as windows service on windows server 2008 R2 Server Issue

2015-04-17 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne

Anil Wale wrote:

Hi Support Team,

   We are trying to setup Libre Office as windows service on windows server 
2008 R2 Server, using following entry on regedit, but after this service not 
get started.

C:\Program Files (x86)\LibreOffice 4\program\ soffice.exe -headless -nofirststartwizard 
-accept="socket,host=localhost,port=8100;urp;StarOffice.Service"

 Can you please help me to setup LibreOffice_4.2.0 as a windows service or 
please send me steps.


I don't even know if LibreOffice can be run as a Windows service. 
Perhaps someone else here might know. You can't just run any random 
program as a service - it has to be designed to respond to the commands 
to start and stop the service, and probably some other things. Assuming 
LibreOffice can run as a service, configuring a service needs more than 
just a single value in the registry; e.g. there are others specifying 
whether the service should automatically start, what happens on errors, etc.


There are several problems with that command anyway:
- With spaces in the path to the executable, that has to be enclosed in 
double-quotes ("). As it is, Windows will try starting C:\Program (which 
probably doesn't even exist) as an executable, passing the rest as 
parameters.

- There should not be a space between "program\" and "soffice.exe".
- As Piet mentioned, it looks like double hyphens are needed for 
LibreOffice parameters:


https://help.libreoffice.org/Common/Starting_the_Software_With_Parameters

So that would be:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\LibreOffice 4\program\soffice.exe" --headless 
--nofirststartwizard 
--accept="socket,host=localhost,port=8100;urp;StarOffice.Service"


Rather than setting up a service, it's probably easiest to just auto-run 
that command by adding an entry under 
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\ - 
create a string value with whatever name you like (e.g. "LibreOffice 
Service") and the command as the data. Before doing that though, it's 
probably easiest to experiment and make sure the intended command works 
by running it from a command prompt. If you did that with your command, 
it outputs:

  'C:\Program' is not recognized...
giving a pretty good hint to the first problem.

Mark.


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Re: [libreoffice-users] Please confirm Calc bug - discontiguous selection of rows, right-click is very slow

2015-04-17 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne

LibreOffice 4.4.2.2 on Windows Vista 32 bit. Using a new, empty sheet.

It only seems to happen with rows, not columns. Or at least, if it does 
happen with columns, more need to be selected before the delay becomes 
noticeable.


With rows 1, 3, 5, etc. for a total of 7 selected, the delay was barely 
noticeable, but with 15 selected it was.


There seems to be more of a delay right-clicking in the row labels, 
rather than clicking in the highlighted cells, although there is a delay 
in both cases.


Mark.


Gary Collins wrote:

I've just tried this with a new empty sheet in LO 4.3.2.2 and haven't noticed 
anything - right-click seems to respond quite instantly. I have 7 
non-contiguous columns selected - is that enough? Or perhaps it makes a 
difference if a fully populated sheet is used. I don't think I've got one handy 
here, I'll try when I get home later - but won't be able to post back for a few 
days.
/Gary
From: Alex McMurchy 
  To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Cc: aikempsh...@btinternet.com
  Sent: Friday, 17 April 2015, 14:30
  Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Please confirm Calc bug - discontiguous 
selection of rows, right-click is very slow

Yes same here.

The more discontiguous rows selected -

right click is painfully slow to respond
selecting subsequent rows is slow to respond

Good luck



On 17/04/15 11:56, Tanstaafl wrote:

Hello,

Before I go open a bug (didn't find an existing one), can someone please
confirm this for me? Been meaning to do this for a while, but something
always got in the way, but it is just started to annoy me even more...

I have been experiencing this for some time, and if memory serves it was
still a problem on the 4.1.x series...

I'm currently on 4.3.6

The problem is in Calc, has to do with selecting discontiguous rows and
a subsequent right-click action

The more discontiguous rows you select, the slower the right-click is to
respond.

If one or more can confirm I'll go open a bug for it...

Thanks







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Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 4.4. crashes reliably on a column sort

2015-04-17 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne

Tom Cloyd wrote:

http://www.trauma-dissociation.net/misc/_DayPlanner-2015_testpage.ods

The file above is a single sheet from a much larger file I use multiple
times every day of my life. It will allow replication of the problem. (For
some reason, it downloads as read-only, so save a copy and us that, to be
able to replicate the issue.)

The goal is to reorder some of the rows by sorting on values in a single
column, in this case column B: I want to move rows 25-26 up to right above
row, 10, so I put a zero in their col. B cell, then do a select of rows 10
to 26, and then key in Alt+D, S. The program will crash reliably.


LibreOffice 4.4.2.2 on Windows Vista 32 bit.

It doesn't crash at that point for me, but on pressing "OK" to do the 
sort, it does crash. However, sort on column C, then sort on column B, 
does not crash. Even stranger, sort on column C, undo, then sort on 
column B, does not crash.


It looks like there's something about that particular sheet, in that 
particular state, which triggers the crash.


I'd suggest filing a bug at http://bugs.libreoffice.org/, attaching that 
file and description as a test case. I can help you with that if 
necessary, or if you're happy doing it yourself please post the bug 
number here so the rest of us know where to find it.



I have reverted to LO 4.3, of necessity, as this issue is a showstopper for
me. This issue is not present in LO 4.3


That's probably your best option for now, unless you can track down what 
it is about that sheet causing the problem and avoid it.


Mark.


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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Installation version chaos

2015-04-17 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne

Getting a little off-topic, but...

Even more confusingly for Windows users, in some contexts on Windows *.* 
matches all files, even those without any extension at all (similarly, 
libreoffice*.* would match all files starting "libreoffice", even if 
they don't contain a dot or extension). I think that's a throwback from 
DOS where all files had an up-to-8-character name and up-to-3-character 
extension, separated by an implied dot; *.* matched files with any 
number of characters for name and any number of characters for 
extension, where "any number" includes none.


I don't like the way newer versions of Windows hide the extensions by 
default. Apart from the inconvenience when you want to change them, it 
makes it so much easier for a dodgy executable to look like a harmless 
text document by its icon, with no giveaway that it's got a .exe 
extension instead of .txt. One of the first things I do is set Explorer 
to show extensions so I can see and change them if necessary:

- Click Organise > Folder and Search Options
- "View" tab
- Untick "Hide extensions for known file types"
- OK
Even then, some extensions (such as .lnk on shortcuts) are "super 
hidden" and still aren't shown, at least without a registry hack...


Mark.


Tom Davies wrote:

Hi :)
There's a tiny "gotcha" in there that i only noticed because i have done
the same thing myself.  It's the . in

sudo apt-get remove libreoffice*.*

Try again but this time without the extra * and the . before it;

sudo apt-get remove libreoffice*

Not all *nix files have a file-ending and dot.  It's not like Windows!
Windows hides it's .file-endings but almost always relies on them quite
heavily.  The end-result looks the same but can still trip people up.  My
pet bug-bear is how to rename a .html into a .txt and such-like but my
work-around is to just avoid using Windows and that solves most such
problems!

Regards from
Tom :)



On 17 April 2015 at 06:41, Andreas Säger  wrote:


Am 17.04.2015 um 06:58 schrieb Tom Cloyd:

I'm running Kubuntu Linux - latest version, fully updated.

I just downloaded "LibreOffice_4.4.2_Linux_x86_deb.tar.gz" and its
associated helpfile. I removed all other *.tar.gz files from my software
download archive.

I removed my previous LO installation: sudo apt-get remove libreoffice*.*

I unpacked each *.tar.gz file and installed it from its respective "DEBS"
directory: sudo dpkg -i *.deb

I launched my supposed new LO version.

As always with a new install, I immediately check "Help > About..." to
verify the install, and I get this:

Version: 4.3.5.2
Build ID: 3a87456aaa6a95c63eea1c1b3201acedf0751bd5

Since that's the version I started with, prior to this upgrade attempt,

I'm

a bit surprised.

That little "download available" icon is in the upper right corner of the
LO window, as well.

Perhaps there's a problem up in the mothership?

Tom




Hi Tom,
Open a terminal and launch /opt/LibreOffice4.4./program/soffice
Watch any output on the terminal.

Oh, and don't forget to stop any "quick starter" instance of some
LibreOffice installation, particularly while running an installation. I
use to disable this useless anti-feature alltogether
(menu:Tools>Options>Memory>"Systray Quickstart").

Greetings,
Andreas Säger



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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Text find/replace in PDFs using API

2015-04-17 Thread Benjamin Smith
On Friday, April 17, 2015 11:28:51 AM V Stuart Foote wrote:
> YMMV to do your processing, but see if this gets you closer to configuration
> needed to parse your PDF for changes.
> 
> http://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/sdext/source/pdfimport/config/pdf_
> import_filter.xcu#79

 figured out how to install this as an extension, and did so, but it still 
opens up the example PDF in Draw. I tried installing just the section you 
referenced and also the entire file and neither seemed to make a difference. 

So it seems to me that my choices are: 

1) Try to determine if there's a way to open the (relatively simple) PDFs in 
writer to go ahead with my ReplaceText.java plan; 

2) Find some way to do something like ReplaceText in draw; 

3) Something else altogether, perhaps a Macro? 

Thanks, 

Ben 

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Text find/replace in PDFs using API

2015-04-17 Thread Benjamin Smith
Sorry I'm a newbie at the LO API, but how would I specify this import filter? 
Does this XML content belong in the value of FilterData ? EG: 

loadProps[0].Value = " The default PDF import filter opens PDF into Draw, but the filter can also
> parse into Writer and is manipulated in GUI from the LibreOffice Open/Save
> dialogs.
> 
> YMMV to do your processing, but see if this gets you closer to configuration
> needed to parse your PDF for changes.
> 
> http://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/sdext/source/pdfimport/config/pdf_
> import_filter.xcu#79
> 
>  79oor:op="replace">
>  80
>  81 com.sun.star.text.TextDocument
>  82
>  83
>  84 0
>  85
>  86
>  87
>  89 com.sun.star.comp.Writer.XmlFilterAdaptor
>  90
>  91
>  92 3RDPARTYFILTER ALIEN IMPORT PREFERRED
>  93
>  94
>  95 pdf_Portable_Document_Format
>  96
>  97
>  98 PDF - Portable Document Format
> (Writer)
>  99
> 100
> 101
> 102
> 103
> 104  oor:separator=",">org.libreoffice.comp.documents.WriterPDFImport,,com.sun.st
> ar.comp.Writer.XMLOasisImportertrue 105
> 106   
> 
> 
> 
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Re: [libreoffice-users] Text find/replace in PDFs using API

2015-04-17 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 17 Apr 2015 11:47:25 -0700
Benjamin Smith  wrote:

Hello Benjamin,

>Now it's failing at this line... how *do* you specify a search/replace
>all text on an instance of draw? (squinting at documentation now) 

All beyond my abilities, I'm afraid.  V Stuart has a more detailed and,
potentially, useful response.

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Text find/replace in PDFs using API

2015-04-17 Thread Benjamin Smith
// resent with additional info // 

On Friday, April 17, 2015 06:58:59 PM Brad Rogers wrote:
> >TextReplace.java example. When it opens the file, it's not importing
> >the PDF, instead it's reading it as a text file or something. 
> 
> IME, PDFs open in Draw, not Writer.  What you're seeing in Writer is the
> mark up.

Good catch! Now the sample PDF opens and is readable! 

Now it's failing at this line... how *do* you specify a search/replace all 
text on an instance of draw? (squinting at documentation now) 

// You need a descriptor to set properies for Replace
xReplaceDescr = xReplaceable.createReplaceDescriptor();

Apparently due to this returning null: 

xReplaceable = UnoRuntime.queryInterface(
com.sun.star.util.XReplaceable.class, xTextDocument);

Where xTextDocument is actually an instance of draw rather than writer. 

(so close!) 


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Re: [libreoffice-users] Drawing arrows in Writer.

2015-04-17 Thread anne-ology
   And that's always seemed the easiest method to me -
   also allows any image to be inserted into the document whenever,
wherever desired.



From: Brian Barker 
Date: Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 9:39 AM
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Drawing arrows in Writer.
To: users@global.libreoffice.org

At 11:49 16/04/2015 +0200, M Henri Day wrote:

 The arrow tool in the draw function toolbar in, e g, Draw or Impress makes
> drawing an arrow there a breeze, but the same toolbar in Writer (I'm using
> 4.4.2) seems to lack this particular - and very handy - tool. Is there some
> way to get around this lack and draw arrows (other than block arrows) in
> Writer ?
>

As has already been suggested, you can insert a line in a text document
(using the Drawing toolbar) and then format it in many ways (Format |
Object > | Line... or right-click | Line...), including adding arrowheads.

But you can also create whatever you need in a Draw or Impress document and
easily copy-and-paste it into a text document. The resulting arrow can
still be manipulated in the text document.

I trust this helps.
Brian Barker

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Text find/replace in PDFs using API

2015-04-17 Thread Benjamin Smith
On Friday, April 17, 2015 06:58:59 PM Brad Rogers wrote:
> >TextReplace.java example. When it opens the file, it's not importing
> >the PDF, instead it's reading it as a text file or something. 
> 
> IME, PDFs open in Draw, not Writer.  What you're seeing in Writer is the
> mark up.

Good catch! Now the sample PDF opens and is readable! 

Now it's failing at this line... how *do* you specify a search/replace all 
text on an instance of draw? (squinting at documentation now) 

// You need a descriptor to set properies for Replace
xReplaceDescr = xReplaceable.createReplaceDescriptor();



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[libreoffice-users] Re: Text find/replace in PDFs using API

2015-04-17 Thread V Stuart Foote
The default PDF import filter opens PDF into Draw, but the filter can also
parse into Writer and is manipulated in GUI from the LibreOffice Open/Save
dialogs.  

YMMV to do your processing, but see if this gets you closer to configuration
needed to parse your PDF for changes.

http://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/sdext/source/pdfimport/config/pdf_import_filter.xcu#79

 79   
 80
 81 com.sun.star.text.TextDocument
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 84 0
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 86
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 89 com.sun.star.comp.Writer.XmlFilterAdaptor
 90
 91
 92 3RDPARTYFILTER ALIEN IMPORT PREFERRED
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 94
 95 pdf_Portable_Document_Format
 96
 97
 98 PDF - Portable Document Format
(Writer)
 99
100
101
102
103 
104 org.libreoffice.comp.documents.WriterPDFImport,,com.sun.star.comp.Writer.XMLOasisImportertrue
105
106   
 



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Re: [libreoffice-users] Text find/replace in PDFs using API

2015-04-17 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 17 Apr 2015 10:40:58 -0700
Benjamin Smith  wrote:

Hello Benjamin,

>TextReplace.java example. When it opens the file, it's not importing
>the PDF, instead it's reading it as a text file or something. 

IME, PDFs open in Draw, not Writer.  What you're seeing in Writer is the
mark up.

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[libreoffice-users] Text find/replace in PDFs using API

2015-04-17 Thread Benjamin Smith
Hello! This is my first post to this list. 

We have a large number of PDF documents that we need to modify slightly and 
save. After a fair amount of research, it seems like the LibreOffice API and 
the 
TextReplace.java code sample should get me rather close to the mark. I almost 
have the script working, but I'm having trouble telling libreoffice to open the 
PDF as a PDF rather than a text document. The result is a bunch of 
gobbledygook. 

Here's the file I started with: 
http://api.libreoffice.org/examples/java/Text/TextReplace.java

I'm running on a spare desktop system, Fedora 21, fresh install, all updates 
applied. EG: 
java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.40-25.b25.fc21.x86_64
libreoffice-core-4.3.6.2-8.fc21.x86_64
libreoffice-writer-4.3.6.2-8.fc21.x86_64

I've successfully modified the script so that it finds and opens the example 
PDF 
I'm using, which has been provided to have the same text as the 
TextReplace.java example. When it opens the file, it's not importing the PDF, 
instead it's reading it as a text file or something. 

You can see what this looks like here: (I'm not running headless on purpose) 
http://hal.schoolpathways.com/libre/screenshot.png

Looking at the documentation, it looks like there's an "Arguments" parameter 
which reads: 

> "Argumentsthese arguments specify component or filter specific behavior
> 
> For example, "ReadOnly" with a boolean value specifies whether the document
> is opened read-only. "FilterName" specifies the component type to create
> and the filter to use, for example: "Text - CSV". For more information see
> com::sun::star::document::MediaDescriptor."

See 
http://api.libreoffice.org/docs/idl/ref/interfacecom_1_1sun_1_1star_1_1frame_1_1XComponentLoader.html

This leads to TypeDetection but I have not figured out how to find out what 
"FilterName" I should use to specify that I'm importing a PDF. 

Below is the code fragment that I'm using now. My *guess* is that this line is 
the culprit: 

loadProps[0].Value = "X-Application/PDF";

but I can't be sure. I'm guessing the following references are related, but 
nowhere am I seeing a *list* of import filters that I can use, nor a way to 
find 
out what filters are available in my install. 

http://www.openoffice.org/api/docs/common/ref/com/sun/star/document/ImportFilter.html
http://www.openoffice.org/api/docs/common/ref/com/sun/star/document/FilterFactory.html

Applicable snippet below, the full .java script that I'm using is visible 
http://hal.schoolpathways.com/libre/TextReplace.java


 SNIP --
// ORIGINAL EXAMPLE
//String sURL = "private:factory/" + sDocumentType;

// SEES PDF AS A TEXT DOCUMENT.
//  String sURL = "file:///home/ben/pdf/example.pdf";
String sURL = "file:///home/ben/pdf/example.pdf";


com.sun.star.lang.XComponent xComponent = null;
com.sun.star.frame.XComponentLoader xComponentLoader = null;
//com.sun.star.beans.PropertyValue xEmptyArgs[] =
//new com.sun.star.beans.PropertyValue[0];

com.sun.star.beans.PropertyValue[] loadProps =
new com.sun.star.beans.PropertyValue[3];

loadProps[0] = new com.sun.star.beans.PropertyValue();
loadProps[0].Name = "FilterData";
loadProps[0].Value = "X-Application/PDF";

try {
xComponentLoader = UnoRuntime.queryInterface(
com.sun.star.frame.XComponentLoader.class, xDesktop);

xComponent  = xComponentLoader.loadComponentFromURL(
sURL, "_blank", 0, loadProps);
}
 SNIP --


Your time and attention are much appreciated. 

Benjamin Smith 

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Font versus Character Substitution

2015-04-17 Thread Brian Barker

At 13:24 17/04/2015 +, Gary Collins wrote:
What I was saying is this: When I change input language, I change it 
using the keyboard/language selector on the windows taskbar. In the 
post I was responding to, it was suggested that the language 
selector button (or whatever it's called) at the bottom of the 
writer window could be used to change input language. However, when 
I try to use that button, it doesn't present the range of choices 
that I have from the Windows taskbar.


From the Windows taskbar language icon, I can choose from Russian, 
Greek (polytonic) or English. From the adjacent keyboard icon (with 
English language selected) I can choose from United Kingdom, 
Akkadian United Kingdom Extended or United Kingdom Extended - Latin.


From the language button at the bottom of the Writer window, the 
only choice I have is between English (UK) and English (USA). I 
don't know if it should offer me the same languages as the windows 
taskbar, or if its purpose is more limited.


These are very different things, I think. You need both.

o The keyboard choices you have enabled in Windows (and which can be 
selected in the Windows taskbar) can indeed be described as "input 
languages", since they govern the relationship between the keys you 
press and the corresponding characters that are transmitted to 
whatever application you are using (or to Windows itself). Changing 
this choice potentially modifies the character that you will see when 
you press any key.


o Within a text document (e.g. in LibreOffice Writer), you may want 
to use a spelling checker and a thesaurus and to have automatic 
hyphenation. To complete any of these tasks, the application needs to 
know which language you mean the text to be in - and so how to treat 
it. You may also wish to set the language of some text as "[None]" in 
order to disable these processes. You can set the language in Writer 
in various ways, since language is a character property, a character 
style property, and a paragraph style property (but not a paragraph 
property, although an entire paragraph can be given a language 
setting using the character property, of course). The indication in 
the Status Bar is of the effect of all of these settings on the 
current selection or at the cursor position.


If you, say, wish to start typing in Russian in an otherwise English 
document, you will need to change keyboard setting in Windows and 
will also wish to change the language setting in Writer. You can do 
this through a context menu from the Status Bar indication; you may 
well see only a couple of languages there, but the full set is 
available via the More... item - leading to the Font tab of the 
Character dialogue. You will certainly find Greek and Russian there. 
Note, though, that you may well prefer to set the language property 
using either character styles or paragraph styles, rather than using 
the direct character formatting provided through the Status Bar facility.


I trust this helps.

Brian Barker


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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: styles and formatting

2015-04-17 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

On 2015/04/16 1:45, Piet van Oostrum wrote:

Andreas Sa"ger wrote:

  > The stylist is accessible through the side bar only. Don't ask me why.
  >

On Mac OS X there still is Format -> Styles and Formatting (Cmd-T).
The menu does NOT work, even though it is listed under "Format" AND 
there is an icon top left side.
It ONLY works if you "undock" the side bar, which has to be done EVERY 
time you start LibreOffice.


To me that qualifies as a bug!
(and definitely makes me want to go back a version or two)

Or am I missing something important here?
Thomas

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Please confirm Calc bug - discontiguous selection of rows, right-click is very slow

2015-04-17 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 17 Apr 2015 10:34:03 -0400
Tanstaafl  wrote:

Hello Tanstaafl,

>What version are you on? This may already be fixed in 4.4.x since 2

4.3.3.2 from the Debian testing repos.  So, I'm a bit off the latest.

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Please confirm Calc bug - discontiguous selection of rows, right-click is very slow

2015-04-17 Thread Alex McMurchy
Should have mentioned that I originally tested on 4.3.6 which exhibited 
the problem as described by Tanstaafl.


I've subsequently tried it on 4.4.2 and the problem appears fixed.

Alex


On 17/04/15 14:30, Alex McMurchy wrote:

Yes same here.

The more discontiguous rows selected -

right click is painfully slow to respond
selecting subsequent rows is slow to respond

Good luck

On 17/04/15 11:56, Tanstaafl wrote:

Hello,

Before I go open a bug (didn't find an existing one), can someone please
confirm this for me? Been meaning to do this for a while, but something
always got in the way, but it is just started to annoy me even more...

I have been experiencing this for some time, and if memory serves it was
still a problem on the 4.1.x series...

I'm currently on 4.3.6

The problem is in Calc, has to do with selecting discontiguous rows and
a subsequent right-click action

The more discontiguous rows you select, the slower the right-click is to
respond.

If one or more can confirm I'll go open a bug for it...

Thanks







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[libreoffice-users] Re: Please confirm Calc bug - discontiguous selection of rows, right-click is very slow

2015-04-17 Thread Andreas Säger
Confirmed. To help testing, the following Basic code selects 500
discontinuous rows. Context menu and tabbing is very slow.

> REM  *  BASIC  *
> 
> Sub Main
> view = ThisComponent.getCurrentController()
> frame = view.getFrame()
> rx = ThisComponent.Sheets(0).Rows
> rgx = ThisComponent.CreateInstance("com.sun.star.sheet.SheetCellRanges")
> for i = 0 to 999 step 2
>   r = rx.getByIndex(i)
>   rgx.addRangeAddress(r.getRangeAddress(), False)
> next
> frame.activate()
> view.select(rgx)
> End Sub




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Re: [libreoffice-users] Please confirm Calc bug - discontiguous selection of rows, right-click is very slow

2015-04-17 Thread Gary Collins
Sorry - I must have had a blind spot.  Just tried with rows, and yes, it does 
indeed seem to take increasing time as the number of discontiguous rows 
increases.
   From: Tanstaafl 
 To: Gary Collins ; Alex McMurchy 
; "users@global.libreoffice.org" 
 
Cc: "aikempsh...@btinternet.com"  
 Sent: Friday, 17 April 2015, 15:10
 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Please confirm Calc bug - discontiguous 
selection of rows, right-click is very slow
   
Hi Gary - but my problem description specifically said ROWS.

Interestingly - I hadn't thought to try columns, since the spreadsheet
I'm working in I'm only doing the rows, but I can confirm that my
problem is ONLY present for ROWS.



On 4/17/2015 10:04 AM, Gary Collins  wrote:
> I've just tried this with a new empty sheet in LO 4.3.2.2 and haven't noticed 
> anything - right-click seems to respond quite instantly. I have 7 
> non-contiguous columns selected - is that enough? Or perhaps it makes a 
> difference if a fully populated sheet is used. I don't think I've got one 
> handy here, I'll try when I get home later - but won't be able to post back 
> for a few days.
> /Gary
>        From: Alex McMurchy 
>  To: users@global.libreoffice.org 
> Cc: aikempsh...@btinternet.com 
>  Sent: Friday, 17 April 2015, 14:30
>  Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Please confirm Calc bug - discontiguous 
>selection of rows, right-click is very slow
>    
> Yes same here.
> 
> The more discontiguous rows selected -
> 
> right click is painfully slow to respond
> selecting subsequent rows is slow to respond
> 
> Good luck
> 
> 
> 
> On 17/04/15 11:56, Tanstaafl wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Before I go open a bug (didn't find an existing one), can someone please
>> confirm this for me? Been meaning to do this for a while, but something
>> always got in the way, but it is just started to annoy me even more...
>>
>> I have been experiencing this for some time, and if memory serves it was
>> still a problem on the 4.1.x series...
>>
>> I'm currently on 4.3.6
>>
>> The problem is in Calc, has to do with selecting discontiguous rows and
>> a subsequent right-click action
>>
>> The more discontiguous rows you select, the slower the right-click is to
>> respond.
>>
>> If one or more can confirm I'll go open a bug for it...
>>
>> Thanks
>>
> 
> 



  
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Re: [libreoffice-users] Please confirm Calc bug - discontiguous selection of rows, right-click is very slow

2015-04-17 Thread Tanstaafl
Hi Brad,

What version are you on? This may already be fixed in 4.4.x since 2
others with different 4.4.x versions have said they don't see the problem...

On 4/17/2015 10:28 AM, Brad Rogers  wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Apr 2015 10:10:30 -0400
> Tanstaafl  wrote:
> 
> Hello Tanstaafl,
> 
>> I'm working in I'm only doing the rows, but I can confirm that my
>> problem is ONLY present for ROWS.
> 
> It also takes longer for the selected dis-contiguous rows to get
> highlighted the more you add.  Again, not so for columns.
> 
> I could understand it if the same applied to rows & columns.  Weird.
> 


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Re: [libreoffice-users] Please confirm Calc bug - discontiguous selection of rows, right-click is very slow

2015-04-17 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 17 Apr 2015 10:10:30 -0400
Tanstaafl  wrote:

Hello Tanstaafl,

>I'm working in I'm only doing the rows, but I can confirm that my
>problem is ONLY present for ROWS.

It also takes longer for the selected dis-contiguous rows to get
highlighted the more you add.  Again, not so for columns.

I could understand it if the same applied to rows & columns.  Weird.

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Please confirm Calc bug - discontiguous selection of rows, right-click is very slow

2015-04-17 Thread Graham Luffrum
Using 4.4.2.2 under Linux Mint 17 the right-click menu appeared immediately
when I selected 25 non-contiguous rows.

Graham

On 17 April 2015 at 16:16, Tanstaafl  wrote:

> On 4/17/2015 10:12 AM, Pedro  wrote:
> > Tanstaafl wrote
> >> The problem is in Calc, has to do with selecting discontiguous rows and
> >> a subsequent right-click action
> >>
> >> The more discontiguous rows you select, the slower the right-click is to
> >> respond.
>
> > Right click is immediate regardless of the number of discontiguous cells
>
> 
>
> ROWS. NOT CELLS. AND NOT COLUMNS.
>
>
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[libreoffice-users] Re: Please confirm Calc bug - discontiguous selection of rows, right-click is very slow

2015-04-17 Thread Pedro
Tanstaafl wrote
> 
> ROWS. NOT CELLS. AND NOT COLUMNS.

The same applies to selecting rows or columns. No delay.

No need to shout. You are being unnecessarily rude.



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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Please confirm Calc bug - discontiguous selection of rows, right-click is very slow

2015-04-17 Thread Tanstaafl
On 4/17/2015 10:12 AM, Pedro  wrote:
> Tanstaafl wrote
>> The problem is in Calc, has to do with selecting discontiguous rows and
>> a subsequent right-click action
>>
>> The more discontiguous rows you select, the slower the right-click is to
>> respond.

> Right click is immediate regardless of the number of discontiguous cells



ROWS. NOT CELLS. AND NOT COLUMNS.


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[libreoffice-users] Re: Please confirm Calc bug - discontiguous selection of rows, right-click is very slow

2015-04-17 Thread Pedro
Tanstaafl wrote
> The problem is in Calc, has to do with selecting discontiguous rows and
> a subsequent right-click action
> 
> The more discontiguous rows you select, the slower the right-click is to
> respond.

Right click is immediate regardless of the number of discontiguous cells
selected in my Windows XP Pro x86 SP3 machine (a 7 year "old" Core 2 Duo
with 2GB RAM) running LibreOffice 4.4.3.1 

Maybe the problem you are experiencing has already been solved?



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Re: [libreoffice-users] Please confirm Calc bug - discontiguous selection of rows, right-click is very slow

2015-04-17 Thread Tanstaafl
Hi Gary - but my problem description specifically said ROWS.

Interestingly - I hadn't thought to try columns, since the spreadsheet
I'm working in I'm only doing the rows, but I can confirm that my
problem is ONLY present for ROWS.

On 4/17/2015 10:04 AM, Gary Collins  wrote:
> I've just tried this with a new empty sheet in LO 4.3.2.2 and haven't noticed 
> anything - right-click seems to respond quite instantly. I have 7 
> non-contiguous columns selected - is that enough? Or perhaps it makes a 
> difference if a fully populated sheet is used. I don't think I've got one 
> handy here, I'll try when I get home later - but won't be able to post back 
> for a few days.
> /Gary
>From: Alex McMurchy 
>  To: users@global.libreoffice.org 
> Cc: aikempsh...@btinternet.com 
>  Sent: Friday, 17 April 2015, 14:30
>  Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Please confirm Calc bug - discontiguous 
> selection of rows, right-click is very slow
>
> Yes same here.
> 
> The more discontiguous rows selected -
> 
> right click is painfully slow to respond
> selecting subsequent rows is slow to respond
> 
> Good luck
> 
> 
> 
> On 17/04/15 11:56, Tanstaafl wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Before I go open a bug (didn't find an existing one), can someone please
>> confirm this for me? Been meaning to do this for a while, but something
>> always got in the way, but it is just started to annoy me even more...
>>
>> I have been experiencing this for some time, and if memory serves it was
>> still a problem on the 4.1.x series...
>>
>> I'm currently on 4.3.6
>>
>> The problem is in Calc, has to do with selecting discontiguous rows and
>> a subsequent right-click action
>>
>> The more discontiguous rows you select, the slower the right-click is to
>> respond.
>>
>> If one or more can confirm I'll go open a bug for it...
>>
>> Thanks
>>
> 
> 


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Re: [libreoffice-users] Please confirm Calc bug - discontiguous selection of rows, right-click is very slow

2015-04-17 Thread Gary Collins
I've just tried this with a new empty sheet in LO 4.3.2.2 and haven't noticed 
anything - right-click seems to respond quite instantly. I have 7 
non-contiguous columns selected - is that enough? Or perhaps it makes a 
difference if a fully populated sheet is used. I don't think I've got one handy 
here, I'll try when I get home later - but won't be able to post back for a few 
days.
/Gary
   From: Alex McMurchy 
 To: users@global.libreoffice.org 
Cc: aikempsh...@btinternet.com 
 Sent: Friday, 17 April 2015, 14:30
 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Please confirm Calc bug - discontiguous 
selection of rows, right-click is very slow
   
Yes same here.

The more discontiguous rows selected -

right click is painfully slow to respond
selecting subsequent rows is slow to respond

Good luck



On 17/04/15 11:56, Tanstaafl wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Before I go open a bug (didn't find an existing one), can someone please
> confirm this for me? Been meaning to do this for a while, but something
> always got in the way, but it is just started to annoy me even more...
>
> I have been experiencing this for some time, and if memory serves it was
> still a problem on the 4.1.x series...
>
> I'm currently on 4.3.6
>
> The problem is in Calc, has to do with selecting discontiguous rows and
> a subsequent right-click action
>
> The more discontiguous rows you select, the slower the right-click is to
> respond.
>
> If one or more can confirm I'll go open a bug for it...
>
> Thanks
>


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Re: [libreoffice-users] Please confirm Calc bug - discontiguous selection of rows, right-click is very slow

2015-04-17 Thread Alex McMurchy

Yes same here.

The more discontiguous rows selected -

right click is painfully slow to respond
selecting subsequent rows is slow to respond

Good luck

On 17/04/15 11:56, Tanstaafl wrote:

Hello,

Before I go open a bug (didn't find an existing one), can someone please
confirm this for me? Been meaning to do this for a while, but something
always got in the way, but it is just started to annoy me even more...

I have been experiencing this for some time, and if memory serves it was
still a problem on the 4.1.x series...

I'm currently on 4.3.6

The problem is in Calc, has to do with selecting discontiguous rows and
a subsequent right-click action

The more discontiguous rows you select, the slower the right-click is to
respond.

If one or more can confirm I'll go open a bug for it...

Thanks




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Re: [libreoffice-users] Font versus Character Substitution

2015-04-17 Thread Gary Collins
I can get the characters I need from the fonts I have, no problem (usually - 
there have been glitches). What I was saying is this:

When I change input language, I change it using the keyboard/language selector 
on the windows taskbar.  In the post I was responding to, it was suggested that 
the language selector button (or whatever it's called) at the bottom of the 
writer window could be used to change input language.

However, when I try to use that button, it doesn't present the range of choices 
that I have from the Windows taskbar.

From the Windows taskbar language icon, I can choose from Russian, Greek 
(polytonic) or English. From the adjacent keyboard icon (with English language 
selected) I can choose from United Kingdom, Akkadian United Kingdom Extended or 
United Kingdom Extended - Latin.

From the language button at the bottom of the Writer window, the only choice I 
have is between English (UK) and English (USA). I don't know if it should offer 
me the same languages as the windows taskbar, or if its purpose is more limited.

/Gary
   From: toki kantoor 
 To: "users@global.libreoffice.org"  
 Sent: Friday, 17 April 2015, 2:38
 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Font versus Character Substitution
   




On April 16, 2015 4:44:11 AM PDT, Gary Collins wote:

>transcriptions from ancient language scripts. 

If those languages are not listed in >Settings >Fonts >CTL, or >Settings >Fonts 
>Western, as appropriate, LibO will not handle them correctly.  It will 
randomly substitute your correct glyph from your correct font, with some 
strange glyph from who knows where.  
(It even does that when writing medieval English using thorn, and The other 
obsolete letters of the English alphabet.)

I think Ancient CJKV work fine, provided you have the appropriate font, _and_ 
the glyphs are in the Unicode Base Plane. (I don't remember if LibO supports 
non base plane glyphs.)
(I don't remember if the mu wang manuscript I was reading in LibO used images, 
or a font.)

I'd suggest filing an rfe for all ancient languages you use, if there is an ISO 
code for them, and also if they aren't yet supported in settings..

You'll need complete locale data for each language. 
I'm assuming that there is an ISO-360 code for the language.

jonathon
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[libreoffice-users] Re: Enforcing Calc sheet protection

2015-04-17 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 17.04.2015 um 00:28 schrieb Andreas Säger:
> Am 16.04.2015 um 13:57 schrieb martin f krafft:
>> also sprach Andreas Säger  [2015-04-16 13:05 +0200]:
>>> Sub protectSheets_onSave(ev)
>>> eSh = ev.Source.Sheets.createEnumeration()
>>> while eSh.hasMoreElements()
>>> sh = eSh.nextElement()
>>> sh.protect("")
>>> wend
>>> End Sub
>>
>> Also does not work. :(
>>
> 
> 
> It DOES work
> 
>> http://www.mediafire.com/view/y98whzbjn2t9q8c/protectSheetsOnSave.ods
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

Back to the drawing board.
The problem with the example macros that are shipped with the "Tools"
library of Open/LibreOffice is as follows:

The example macro Tools>Misc>protectSheets is declared as

Sub protectSheets(Optional oSheets)

When the optional argument is missing it unprotects all the sheets of
the current document. The optional argument can be a sheets collection.
When you call this macro by means of a push button or some document
event (Tools>Customize>Events) the macro gets some event struct argument
which is not an array of sheets which triggers the "wrong type of
object" errors.

-
If I had a closer look at the example macro, my first answer would have
been this:

Sub protectAllSheets()
GlobalScope.BasicLibraries.loadLibrary("Tools")
Tools.Misc.protectSheets()
End Sub

This macro calls the example macro Tools.Misc.protectSheets without any
argument so it can do its job properly started from an active
spreadsheet window.

or more explicitly:

Sub protectAllSheets()
GlobalScope.BasicLibraries.loadLibrary("Tools")
Tools.Misc.protectSheets(ThisComponent.Sheets)
End Sub

passing the sheets collection of ThisComponent.
StarBasic's special variable ThisComponent is always the containing
document of a macro or the latest active document if the macro is not
contained in a document.

Second problem with Tools.Misc.protectSheets is the method how it grabs
the sheets of the active document when there is no sheet collection passed:

oDocSheets = StarDesktop.CurrentFrame.Controller.Model.Sheets

The model of the current frame's controller may return the StarBasic-IDE
while you are debugging your program. The Basic-IDE has no Sheets and
you get a "no such object or method" error.

I would prefer this one instead:
oDocSheets = ThisComponent.Sheets
which would fail if the latest active document is not a spreadsheet
document, not counting the IDE.

All this trouble with wrong arguments and types is impossible to resolve
for the common VBA/Excel programmer which is why I recommend to stay
away from all office macros unless you have a certain level of
proficiency, meaning that you are capable of systematically debuggig a
program and that you are very familiar with the application you are
hacking upon.


Instead of analysing the LibreOffice.Tools.Misc.unprotectSheets macro, I
simply wrote my own version of it presuming that it's called by a
document's script event from Tools>Customize, tab:Events.
The event passes an event struct having a Source object representing the
calling document in any case even when it is not the current
controller's model, not ThisComponent, invisible, not yet initialized or
otherwise inaccessible by the usual methods.

I am pretty sure that my code works under any circumstance and with all
the document events availlable (no, I did not test them all).

---

And all these lengthy ramblings about the shortcomings and difficulties
with Libre/OpenOffice macro programming, why recorded macros don't work,
about the
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model%E2%80%93view%E2%80%93controller and
all the things that should be well known _before_  writing the first
macro are a massive waste of time.
How many sheets could have been protected manually while writing all
this techno rubbish?
Right-clickTabs>Select All Sheets.
Tools>Protect>Sheets
So simple.


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[libreoffice-users] Re: Drawing arrows in Writer.

2015-04-17 Thread william drescher

On 4/16/2015 11:57 AM, V Stuart Foote wrote:

@Henri,

The group selectors for Draw/Impress "Lines and Arrows" and "Connectors" are
not currently exposed to Writer.  If that piece gets done, then the choice
of exposing it on Writer's Drawing toolbar by default or hiding it is
negligible.

But take your point about exposing by default on the Drawing toolbar for
simplicity of use for those not comfortable with doing toolbar
customization.

Stuart



+1



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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Enforcing Calc sheet protection

2015-04-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :)
Btw to anyone who thinks i might be accusing anyone of being an aspie ...

It is not possible to "accuse" someone of being an aspie in much the same
way that it's not possible to "accuse" someone of being a super-hero.

Many of the aspie traits have an extremely positive and beneficial side.
It was/is the aspie/autie traits of people such as Bill Gates,
Michelangelo, Einstein, Mozart and many others that made/makes them
admirable.
Regards from
Tom :)



On 17 April 2015 at 12:18, Tom Davies  wrote:

> Hi :)
> Thanks :)  Not everyone realises that and many of us on this mailing list
> often do the same as Andreas did too  :)
>
> A lot of people in IT have aspergers syndrome or similar things and we
> don't always realise that people might misinterpret things we say.  We
> often just say exactly what we mean but then people add all sorts of
> emotional stuff into it and sometimes even end-up thinking we've said the
> reverse of what we really said.
>
> Even non-Aspies in a lot of areas of IT get used to communicating in much
> the same way = just direct and clear with no spin or anything.
>
> I am kinda hyper-sensitive to things like that and try to help
> Neurotypicals (NTs)
> http://musingsofanaspie.com/2013/01/10/what-is-neurotypical/
> to understand what was probably meant.  I am probably so hyper-sensitive
> to it because it is such a nightmare for me to try to get myself understood
> by NTs.  For many years i just thought certain sorts of people were being
> deliberately obtuse but then i found a LOT of other people had the same
> problem as me and that it's not something i can fix but is possible to
> work-around the most frequent misunderstandings, sometimes.
>
> Apparently Aspies are so common at Microsoft that their health-care now
> includes testing employees children for it, if the employee wants.  I
> cynically suspect that it is to help spot likely programmers from a MUCH
> earlier age but many aspies (and auties) are 'gifted' musicians or amazing
> artists instead.
>
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
>
> On 17 April 2015 at 11:35, martin f krafft  wrote:
>
>> also sprach Tom Davies  [2015-04-16 21:06 +0200]:
>> > I'm not sure that aspect is clear from Andreas' post but he
>> > probably didn't mean it to be as rude as it might have sounded.
>> > It is just something that could potentially be helpful.
>>
>> Wait wait, I am a Debian developer for almost 20 years and a FLOSS
>> contributor for longer than that, which means two things: I know
>> perfectly well how to read messages on mailing lists, and I should
>> have done my homework better.
>>
>> I appreciated Andreas' replies and didn't think they were rude.
>> I should have researched this better and provided more information.
>> Truth is that I was under time pressure and not particularly excited
>> to dive into MacroScript or whatever it's called.
>>
>> So, no hard feelings. I hope I can catch up and deliver what
>> I should have sent in the first place.
>>
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>>
>> "a warm bed in a house sounds a mite better
>>  than eating a hot dog on a stick
>>  with an old geezer traveling on a lawn mower."
>> -- alvin straight (the straight story)
>>
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>>
>
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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Enforcing Calc sheet protection

2015-04-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :)
Thanks :)  Not everyone realises that and many of us on this mailing list
often do the same as Andreas did too  :)

A lot of people in IT have aspergers syndrome or similar things and we
don't always realise that people might misinterpret things we say.  We
often just say exactly what we mean but then people add all sorts of
emotional stuff into it and sometimes even end-up thinking we've said the
reverse of what we really said.

Even non-Aspies in a lot of areas of IT get used to communicating in much
the same way = just direct and clear with no spin or anything.

I am kinda hyper-sensitive to things like that and try to help
Neurotypicals (NTs)
http://musingsofanaspie.com/2013/01/10/what-is-neurotypical/
to understand what was probably meant.  I am probably so hyper-sensitive to
it because it is such a nightmare for me to try to get myself understood by
NTs.  For many years i just thought certain sorts of people were being
deliberately obtuse but then i found a LOT of other people had the same
problem as me and that it's not something i can fix but is possible to
work-around the most frequent misunderstandings, sometimes.

Apparently Aspies are so common at Microsoft that their health-care now
includes testing employees children for it, if the employee wants.  I
cynically suspect that it is to help spot likely programmers from a MUCH
earlier age but many aspies (and auties) are 'gifted' musicians or amazing
artists instead.

Regards from
Tom :)



On 17 April 2015 at 11:35, martin f krafft  wrote:

> also sprach Tom Davies  [2015-04-16 21:06 +0200]:
> > I'm not sure that aspect is clear from Andreas' post but he
> > probably didn't mean it to be as rude as it might have sounded.
> > It is just something that could potentially be helpful.
>
> Wait wait, I am a Debian developer for almost 20 years and a FLOSS
> contributor for longer than that, which means two things: I know
> perfectly well how to read messages on mailing lists, and I should
> have done my homework better.
>
> I appreciated Andreas' replies and didn't think they were rude.
> I should have researched this better and provided more information.
> Truth is that I was under time pressure and not particularly excited
> to dive into MacroScript or whatever it's called.
>
> So, no hard feelings. I hope I can catch up and deliver what
> I should have sent in the first place.
>
> --
> @martinkrafft | http://madduck.net/ | http://two.sentenc.es/
>
> "a warm bed in a house sounds a mite better
>  than eating a hot dog on a stick
>  with an old geezer traveling on a lawn mower."
> -- alvin straight (the straight story)
>
> spamtraps: madduck.bo...@madduck.net
>

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[libreoffice-users] Please confirm Calc bug - discontiguous selection of rows, right-click is very slow

2015-04-17 Thread Tanstaafl
Hello,

Before I go open a bug (didn't find an existing one), can someone please
confirm this for me? Been meaning to do this for a while, but something
always got in the way, but it is just started to annoy me even more...

I have been experiencing this for some time, and if memory serves it was
still a problem on the 4.1.x series...

I'm currently on 4.3.6

The problem is in Calc, has to do with selecting discontiguous rows and
a subsequent right-click action

The more discontiguous rows you select, the slower the right-click is to
respond.

If one or more can confirm I'll go open a bug for it...

Thanks

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Casual conversation (was: Re: Enforcing Calc sheet protection)

2015-04-17 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Nino Novak  [2015-04-17 10:21 +0200]:
> But as far as I perceive it, a bunch of subscribers do appreciate
> Tom's friendly tone, even if the contents is sometimes not very
> helpful.

Yes, I would be surprised if there weren't a larger number of people
on this list who didn't appreciate his message.

> Does anybody know a good solution for this dilemma?

Coexist and don't take things personal. And also try to stay away
from personal messages yourself. I.e. Tom could have sympathised
with me without guessing that I might have thought Andreas was being
rude.

If you're interested, there is
https://people.debian.org/~enrico/dcg/ and there was also recently
a fantastic article about how to choose your words on mailing lists,
but I am failing to find it. I will follow-up…

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Enforcing Calc sheet protection

2015-04-17 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Tom Davies  [2015-04-16 21:06 +0200]:
> I'm not sure that aspect is clear from Andreas' post but he
> probably didn't mean it to be as rude as it might have sounded.
> It is just something that could potentially be helpful.

Wait wait, I am a Debian developer for almost 20 years and a FLOSS
contributor for longer than that, which means two things: I know
perfectly well how to read messages on mailing lists, and I should
have done my homework better.

I appreciated Andreas' replies and didn't think they were rude.
I should have researched this better and provided more information.
Truth is that I was under time pressure and not particularly excited
to dive into MacroScript or whatever it's called.

So, no hard feelings. I hope I can catch up and deliver what
I should have sent in the first place.

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Casual conversation

2015-04-17 Thread James Wilde
I emphasise that there is no implied or intendedcriticism of Andreas  in
my previous post.

The problem is that Tom is a very social person, and invaluable in not
frightening away insecure novices, but perhaps not the best poster when
the going gets technical.

James

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Casual conversation

2015-04-17 Thread James Wilde


On 2015-04-17 10:21, Nino Novak wrote:
> On 16.04.2015 at 22:20, Andreas Säger wrote:
>> @tom
>>
>> SHUT UP!!! If you don't have anything to tell.
> :-(
>
> I understand both:
>
> ...

> Another idea could be to ask Andreas to try to ignore Tom's messages, and
> ask Tom to try to restrain himself. Does this sound helpful?
>
 It's not going to work in the long run, Nino.  There's probably
no solution other than letting Andreas blow his top now and then.

James

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[libreoffice-users] LO 4.4. crashes reliably on a column sort

2015-04-17 Thread Tom Cloyd
http://www.trauma-dissociation.net/misc/_DayPlanner-2015_testpage.ods

The file above is a single sheet from a much larger file I use multiple
times every day of my life. It will allow replication of the problem. (For
some reason, it downloads as read-only, so save a copy and us that, to be
able to replicate the issue.)

The goal is to reorder some of the rows by sorting on values in a single
column, in this case column B: I want to move rows 25-26 up to right above
row, 10, so I put a zero in their col. B cell, then do a select of rows 10
to 26, and then key in Alt+D, S. The program will crash reliably.

I have reverted to LO 4.3, of necessity, as this issue is a showstopper for
me. This issue is not present in LO 4.3

t.

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Installation version chaos

2015-04-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :)
Congrats Tom!  Nicely done Andreas!

Thanks for teaching me something there too Andreas.  That is the sort of
thing i joined the mailing list for = to learn about practical problems
that people who are not experts in LibreOffice (but probably do have
expertise elsewhere) could easily run into.  Having a couple of generic
answers that help solve most things has been good but learning specifics is
even better.  So, thanks for that :))
Regards from
Tom :)



On 17 April 2015 at 09:20, Andreas Säger  wrote:

> Problem solved
>
> > Andreas,
> >
> > Well, I forgot my final step - change my launch menu LO item to issue
> the command "libreoffice4.4 %U" (from "libreoffice4.3 %U".) Fixing that,
> all is well.
> >
> > (That systray autostart thing is long gone on my system!)
> >
> > My mistake!
> >
> > Thanks for your quick response, which made me realize instantly what the
> problem was.
> >
> > Warm regard,
> >
> > Tom Cloyd
>
>
>
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[libreoffice-users] Casual conversation (was: Re: Enforcing Calc sheet protection)

2015-04-17 Thread Nino Novak
On 16.04.2015 at 22:20, Andreas Säger wrote:
> @tom
> 
> SHUT UP!!! If you don't have anything to tell.

:-(

I understand both:

 - Andreas, who is a high-level Libre/OpenOffice expert and really needs
exact and non-distracting communication

and

 - Tom who is a genius in association and cross-connection but with a high
percentage of (sometimes incredibly wrong) guessing

Personally, I'm in favour of Andreas' way of communication as I also get
distracted too easy by Tom's frequent associations.

But as far as I perceive it, a bunch of subscribers do appreciate Tom's
friendly tone, even if the contents is sometimes not very helpful.

Does anybody know a good solution for this dilemma?

The perhaps clearest way would be to set up a list policy, which says that
only short answers are allowed, or that only solution suggestions are
welcome, which the writer has tested himself - or something similar. But
IMHO it's absolutely not easy/trivial to define exactly what is welcome and
what not.

A different idea could be to split the list into a "first" and "second"
level support, with diffrerent list policies (e.g. in list 2 only
to-the-point-communication, no distraction allowed).

Another idea could be to ask Andreas to try to ignore Tom's messages, and
ask Tom to try to restrain himself. Does this sound helpful?

Regards,
Nino

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[libreoffice-users] Re: Installation version chaos

2015-04-17 Thread Andreas Säger
Problem solved

> Andreas,
> 
> Well, I forgot my final step - change my launch menu LO item to issue the 
> command "libreoffice4.4 %U" (from "libreoffice4.3 %U".) Fixing that, all is 
> well.
> 
> (That systray autostart thing is long gone on my system!)
> 
> My mistake!
> 
> Thanks for your quick response, which made me realize instantly what the 
> problem was.
> 
> Warm regard,
> 
> Tom Cloyd




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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Installation version chaos

2015-04-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :)
There's a tiny "gotcha" in there that i only noticed because i have done
the same thing myself.  It's the . in

sudo apt-get remove libreoffice*.*

Try again but this time without the extra * and the . before it;

sudo apt-get remove libreoffice*

Not all *nix files have a file-ending and dot.  It's not like Windows!
Windows hides it's .file-endings but almost always relies on them quite
heavily.  The end-result looks the same but can still trip people up.  My
pet bug-bear is how to rename a .html into a .txt and such-like but my
work-around is to just avoid using Windows and that solves most such
problems!

Regards from
Tom :)



On 17 April 2015 at 06:41, Andreas Säger  wrote:

> Am 17.04.2015 um 06:58 schrieb Tom Cloyd:
> > I'm running Kubuntu Linux - latest version, fully updated.
> >
> > I just downloaded "LibreOffice_4.4.2_Linux_x86_deb.tar.gz" and its
> > associated helpfile. I removed all other *.tar.gz files from my software
> > download archive.
> >
> > I removed my previous LO installation: sudo apt-get remove libreoffice*.*
> >
> > I unpacked each *.tar.gz file and installed it from its respective "DEBS"
> > directory: sudo dpkg -i *.deb
> >
> > I launched my supposed new LO version.
> >
> > As always with a new install, I immediately check "Help > About..." to
> > verify the install, and I get this:
> >
> > Version: 4.3.5.2
> > Build ID: 3a87456aaa6a95c63eea1c1b3201acedf0751bd5
> >
> > Since that's the version I started with, prior to this upgrade attempt,
> I'm
> > a bit surprised.
> >
> > That little "download available" icon is in the upper right corner of the
> > LO window, as well.
> >
> > Perhaps there's a problem up in the mothership?
> >
> > Tom
> >
> >
>
> Hi Tom,
> Open a terminal and launch /opt/LibreOffice4.4./program/soffice
> Watch any output on the terminal.
>
> Oh, and don't forget to stop any "quick starter" instance of some
> LibreOffice installation, particularly while running an installation. I
> use to disable this useless anti-feature alltogether
> (menu:Tools>Options>Memory>"Systray Quickstart").
>
> Greetings,
> Andreas Säger
>
>
>
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