Re: Documentation for writing addins

What language will you use? On 10/19/2012 09:00 AM, Christof Donat wrote: Hi, I am trying to write an addin for AOO writer. Thank google I found a fiew examples for additional calc functions and a bit of interface documentations so I was able to more or less guess how the code for my writer add

Re: Apache OO General Questions

On 10/14/2012 06:08 AM, Eike Rathke wrote: Hi Pedro, On Saturday, 2012-10-13 18:07:24 -0700, Pedro Giffuni wrote: This said, the latest versions of LO introduce bugs that I can't reproduce on AOO. AOO is very stable and we want to keep it that way. Thanks. The latest version of AOO also stil

Re: Apache OO General Questions

On 10/13/2012 09:07 PM, Pedro Giffuni wrote: Hi Andrew; - Original Message - ... Couple of questions: (Q) it was stated to me at one time that integrating changes between AOO and LO would not be overly complicated (bad memory, but maybe it was Tom Davis referencing the fact that Symp

Re: Apache OO General Questions

On 10/13/2012 07:20 PM, Regina Henschel wrote: Hi Andrew, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak schrieb: Couple of questions: (Q) it was stated to me at one time that integrating changes between AOO and LO would not be overly complicated (bad memory, but maybe it was Tom Davis referencing the fact that

Re: Apache OO General Questions

On 10/13/2012 07:07 PM, Rob Weir wrote: On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: Couple of questions: (Q) it was stated to me at one time that integrating changes between AOO and LO would not be overly complicated (bad memory, but maybe it was Tom Davis referencing the

Apache OO General Questions

Couple of questions: (Q) it was stated to me at one time that integrating changes between AOO and LO would not be overly complicated (bad memory, but maybe it was Tom Davis referencing the fact that Symphony was kept in sync with OOo). Are any changes integrated between AOO and LO (in either

Re: bug in OpenOffice

On 10/02/2012 05:46 AM, Yuri Myasoedov wrote: 02.10.2012, 05:05, "Илья Родичев" : Hello, my english is bad, but i will try to tell you about a bug in OpenOffice which i found in russian - you must translate it: Документ, содержащий маркированный список, вложенный в таблицу НЕ СОХРАНЯЕТСЯ И ПО

Re: [User Docs] What do we as a community want for user documentation or AOO

Disclaimer: I am tired, I don't feel well, and I did not follow the precursors in detail, so this is the tired faulty memories of me. On 09/22/2012 05:17 PM, Rob Weir wrote: On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: I am not clear what the lazy consensus is about. Clearly,

Re: [QA] Quality of bug reports and QA in bugzilla

On 09/19/2012 10:25 AM, Reizinger Zoltán wrote: I not agree fully. In lot of cases I submit a bug found by others, submitted on forums, checked by me before I submit a new bug. In these case the "confirmed" could be the best deafault. In other cases the "unconfirmed" is the best deafult valu

Re: [QA] Quality of bug reports and QA in bugzilla

On 09/19/2012 08:34 AM, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 02:24:11PM +0200, Oliver Brinzing wrote: Hi Regina, Your own new issue should be UNCONFIRMED. Someone else should confirm your issue, if possible on a different operating system. i am pretty sure that i did not set t

Re: Duplicate code in module binfilter [was: Re: svn commit: r1379349 - in /incubator/ooo/trunk/main: offapi/com/sun/star/sheet/ offapi/type_reference/ oox/inc/oox/xls/ oox/source/xls/ sc/inc/ sc/sour

On 09/07/2012 01:46 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: On 04/09/2012 Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote: There is a misunderstanding. The module binfilter contains the needed code to import/export legacy binary StarOffice file format in order to remove this code from the main code base. Module binflter is mo

Re: [PERSONAL] My absence

On 09/07/2012 07:40 AM, Donald Harbison wrote: Thanks everybody! Wonderful to feel the love. Kit is doing great and is expected to have a full recovery. It will just take time. She is very impatient, so that is now becoming my biggest challenge, if you know what I mean. :) I know EXACTLY what

Re: [PERSONAL] My absence

Best wishes and a speedy recovery... -- Andrew Pitonyak My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php

Re: Duplicate code in module binfilter [was: Re: svn commit: r1379349 - in /incubator/ooo/trunk/main: offapi/com/sun/star/sheet/ offapi/type_reference/ oox/inc/oox/xls/ oox/source/xls/ sc/inc/ sc/sour

On 09/06/2012 12:41 AM, Juergen Schmidt wrote: So that is what we will do with the older OOo file formats? I just want to be clear that I need to find these files ands then manually convert all of them before support is dropped. I don't like writing my own extractors from scratch, but I have

Re: Duplicate code in module binfilter [was: Re: svn commit: r1379349 - in /incubator/ooo/trunk/main: offapi/com/sun/star/sheet/ offapi/type_reference/ oox/inc/oox/xls/ oox/source/xls/ sc/inc/ sc/sour

On 09/04/2012 03:49 AM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: On 9/4/12 3:42 AM, Lei Wang wrote: Hi, So we have plan to remove import/export code from application modules(sw,sc,sd...) and implement import/export function in binfilter. Is there any document about this feature? What's the current status ? no,

Re: Stale links...

On 09/03/2012 09:32 AM, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: On 3 September 2012 02:16, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: I was looking here: http://www.openoffice.org/support/index.html Do we continue using that very very old support page? I had replaced it with http://suppport.ooo but that was, uhm

Re: Stale links...

On 09/03/2012 03:00 AM, Dave Barton wrote: Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: On 09/03/2012 02:16 AM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: I was looking here: http://www.openoffice.org/support/index.html The last link on the page is as follows: OpenOffice.org Macros Explained (Publisher's

Re: Stale links...

On 09/03/2012 02:16 AM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: I was looking here: http://www.openoffice.org/support/index.html The last link on the page is as follows: OpenOffice.org Macros Explained (Publisher's site) Introduction to macro programming in OpenOffice.org. 300 pages. August

Stale links...

I was looking here: http://www.openoffice.org/support/index.html The last link on the page is as follows: OpenOffice.org Macros Explained (Publisher's site) Introduction to macro programming in OpenOffice.org. 300 pages. August 2004, ISBN 1-930919-51-4. The publisher is out of books and I

Re: A direct answer to a direct question, please

On 08/31/2012 12:39 AM, Paul Myers wrote: I have not been able to locate a direct answer to the following direct question on any of your webpages or fora sites: How comparable is the OpenOffice "variant" of VBA to the original version developed by Microsoft for its "Office" components (E

Re: [QA][Request]Apply for the membership of AOO QA and edit permission in Bugzilla.

In the original OOo, I had the role to confirm bugs and such, did those roles transfer to the Apache system? -- Andrew Pitonyak My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php

Re: Is this a UNO API bug?

nd the Author fields that are set to the current values. - The FileName fields are updated with the current name of the file. - The DocInfo.XXX fields are updated with the current document info of the document. All other fields ignore calls to update(). 2012/8/23 Andrew Douglas Pi

Re: Is this a UNO API bug?

ment.getText().getString()); } catch (com.sun.star.uno.Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); } 2012/8/22 Andrew Douglas Pitonyak On 08/21/2012 09:08 PM, dongjun zong wrote: Andrew, I think you are right, I add a sleep time after insert page number field before getT

Re: Is this a UNO API bug?

on my part. Oliver, I have tired again, on my computer, if don't add sleep time, it has problem for exist more than 2 page sample fie. You can try this sample, add a page nubmer at end of this document. pls get this sample from attachement. 2012/8/21 Andrew Douglas Pitonyak <mailto:a

Re: Is this a UNO API bug?

before it returns. On 08/21/2012 03:23 AM, dongjun zong wrote: The strange thing is this API can works fine for doc sample file. I guess this is a bug. 2012/8/21 Andrew Douglas Pitonyak OK, I had to look... For a text field, see if you can call update. This may not work if the document has

Re: Is this a UNO API bug?

refresh (probably using a dispatch). On 08/21/2012 02:30 AM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: Did you successfully insert the text field? If yes, then after you insert a text field, it has probably not yet refreshed its value. Off hand, I don't remember exactly what you need to refresh first.

Re: Is this a UNO API bug?

Did you successfully insert the text field? If yes, then after you insert a text field, it has probably not yet refreshed its value. Off hand, I don't remember exactly what you need to refresh first I would need to look it up and I really need to run but figured it might help you a bit an

Re: [HELP]Where could get the information about parameter Properties values in method XStorable.storeAsURL

On 08/16/2012 01:40 AM, dongjun zong wrote: Hi, I am tring to use the method storeAsURL of interface "XStorable" void storeAsURL( [in] string aURL, sequence< com::sun::star::beans::PropertyValue > aArgs) What's second parameter valid values? I have searched in Wiki, and get below informa

Re: Linux install instructions

On 08/14/2012 11:42 AM, Andre Fischer wrote: On 14.08.2012 15:05, Rob Weir wrote: I just noticed this new article. It seems to have a complete description, including uninstalling LO and blocking future updates: http://www.tecmint.com/install-apache-openoffice-3-4-0-on-rhel-centos-6-3-5-8-and-

Re: AOO-LibreOffice comparison?

Peter, if you do create a feature comparison, I would be interested in seeing what you create. I use both, and to some extent it is related to a particular feature that I need at the moment, or a bug that I want to avoid at the moment. As an example, on one computer at an off-site location,

Unexpected behavior while writing Calc Functions

I wrote a simple function Function mydate As Date mydate = CDate(100) End Function I then called this function from a Calc document =myDate() Finally, I directly accessed the cells with the dates from a macro similar to the following code: Print ThisComponent.Sheets(0).getCellByPosition(

Re: Suggestion - file format

On 07/12/2012 09:41 AM, Rob Weir wrote: On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 2:30 AM, Shenfeng Liu wrote: Considering this... Then I agree with Dennis that we should consult users for ODF format. But my concern is that it will look like Apache OpenOffice gives the same weight of support to ODF and MS Offic

Re: Suggestion - file format

I agree with Dennis, if there is already an association, ask. I frequently use computers with more than one application that uses ODF file formats as the default format. The problem, of course, is how to choose which to associate. For example, off hand, the first thought is that you have an

Re: Labels

On 07/06/2012 05:49 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: On 07/06/2012 03:38 AM, Sybil Snyders wrote: We would like to get in contact with you to see how we can work together on the label printing functionality of your software. We have our own templates, which we like to

Re: Labels

I believe that your templates can be bundled into an extension (or similar) and distributed from an extension web site. http://extensions.openoffice.org/ On 07/06/2012 03:38 AM, Sybil Snyders wrote: Good day Hope you are well. We would like to get in contact with you to see how we can w

Re: [Call-for-​Review] one fix for odt saving performance improvement

On 06/21/2012 01:00 AM, li zhang wrote: hi, all I'm zhang li from China. My main focus is performance(loading, saving, asynchronous loading, etc). I have one fix need for review. It is about odt saving. Please check the below for details, thanks! https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=12

Re: Java

On 06/19/2012 12:29 PM, Maya Cain wrote: I had an older copy of OpenOffice which ran very well but then I found there was a newer version and so I updated and now my database will not work. I get a message saying that the Java environment has changed. The text function and the spreadsheets bot

Re: The reason I removed the program called Open Office 3.4

program called Open Office 3.4 Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: On 06/04/2012 11:07 AM, Phillip Rhodes wrote: On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Kay Schenk wrote: . In no circumstance should AOO establish itself as a default for any file type. I'd say "In no circumstance should AOO establish

Re: The reason I removed the program called Open Office 3.4

On 06/04/2012 11:07 AM, Phillip Rhodes wrote: On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Kay Schenk wrote: . In no circumstance should AOO establish itself as a default for any file type. I'd say "In no circumstance should AOO establish itself as a default for any file type which is already associate

Re: The reason I removed the program called Open Office 3.4

On 06/03/2012 05:34 PM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: Three immediate subjects for such an FAQ come to mind: 1) The file associations just discussed 2) When Java is needed for Windows it should be 32bit and version 1.6 I stressed over this one and simply installed multiple versions of Java to see wh

Re: The reason I removed the program called Open Office 3.4

On 06/01/2012 09:48 PM, Felix Brown wrote: The reason I removed the program called Open Office 3.4 was: Today the automatic update to 3.4 happened. Today I opened a WordPad file, (Which I open often; It's my list of birthdays.); And to my surprise, Your piece of junk software had hijacked all of

Re: [AUTOSAVE] Where is

On 05/27/2012 12:53 AM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: On 05/25/2012 11:59 PM, Kayo Hamid wrote: Hello, i'm having problems with autosave and want to see around the code, where is the implementation? ooo/trunk/main/framework/qa/complex/framework/autosave ? Thanks, Kayo Hamid. What pr

Re: Fwd: [Dev] Redundant information in ODF document

I did not bother to check the spec, but I will hazard a guess that the problem is that the information is in the style itself. If the information is in the style, then if it is not persisted then it will be lost. Are you looking at a style that has a parent style? I expect that if I create

Re: [AUTOSAVE] Where is

On 05/25/2012 11:59 PM, Kayo Hamid wrote: Hello, i'm having problems with autosave and want to see around the code, where is the implementation? ooo/trunk/main/framework/qa/complex/framework/autosave ? Thanks, Kayo Hamid. What problem are you chasing? Is it a problem with disappearing graphi

Re: Linux install issues

On 05/19/2012 04:52 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: On Sat, 19 May 2012 10:00:39 -0700 Kay Schenk wrote: Hi all-- OK, thanks. I will wait "until the world turns" :) before editing the install guide. Remember that pretty much nothing has c

Re: Linux install issues

On 05/19/2012 01:00 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: Hi all-- It seems we are running into a number of very difficult problems with Linux installs, the latest just e-mailed to this list this morning, due to the way some vendors have installed LO. see: http://markmail.org/message/qz72ouzjvcm7uyfn I'd re

Re: HELP NEEDED

On 05/14/2012 09:34 AM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: On Mon, 14 May 2012 11:35:37 +0200 (CEST) "kod...@libero.it" wrote: Hello, I'm sorry if I'm writing to the wrong email adres but i can't find the support email adress. i need help! i saved last night an odt file 28 apges long terribly important t

Re: [WWW] AOOo french website

On 05/12/2012 01:22 AM, eric b wrote: LibreOffice does not respect Apache OpenOffice, Surely I have seen some of this, but not from the majority. My expectation is that those that feel the strongest and are the most vocal likely split with LO. As such, I also expect some of those people to

Re: A wiki about how to support a VBA API

On 05/07/2012 10:08 PM, TJ Frazier wrote: On 5/7/2012 20:02, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: I owe you one, for the help your (on-line) book provided, when I was writing the temporary GUI for the new encoding feature: <http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/User:TJFrazier/Encryption&

Re: A wiki about how to support a VBA API

If your changes show properly in the Preview mode, then they will be correctly saved when you Save. Sometimes the ATS delivers stale pages, so you might see the original page, unchanged, after the Save. The workaround is described in "Moving Day":

Re: A wiki about how to support a VBA API

On 05/02/2012 04:29 AM, Peng Chen wrote: Hi All, I post a wiki about how to support a VBA API in OpenOffice, http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/How_to_support_a_VBA_API_in_OpenOffice Any feedback will be appreciated, thanks. Now that I know what the page describes (thanks ever

Re: A wiki about how to support a VBA API

. 2012/5/3 Andrew Douglas Pitonyak <mailto:and...@pitonyak.org>> On 05/02/2012 04:29 AM, Peng Chen wrote: Hi All, I post a wiki about how to support a VBA API in OpenOffice, http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/How_to_support_a_VBA_API_in_O

Re: A wiki about how to support a VBA API

On 05/02/2012 04:29 AM, Peng Chen wrote: Hi All, I post a wiki about how to support a VBA API in OpenOffice, http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/How_to_support_a_VBA_API_in_OpenOffice Any feedback will be appreciated, thanks. I am almost embarrassed to say this, but after havin

Re: Clarifying facts

If YOU (the reader) disagree with a specific statement in the original post (shown below if you really need to see it), please be specific about which statement and how you would fix the statement. As an example, some clarification was provided that left me less confused with respect to the d

Re: Calling all volunteers: It is time to test

Perhaps it was because I still had an old copy of something running in the background. Unsure about that, however, because even when I rolled back, the newer version still claimed to be running. H Too late to test again, I must sleep. On 03/02/2012 01:42 AM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak

Re: Calling all volunteers: It is time to test

Can you give me some clarification on exactly what I should test? I just downloaded and installed OOo_3.4.0_Linux_x86-64_install-rpm_en-US.tar.gz and it seems to NOT have the English language. It does, however, seem to have classic French. I also do not see the en-US language pack that I can

Re: oooforum.org

I posted this to their forum, see if it may motivate some people there http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?p=456167#456167 -- Andrew Pitonyak My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php

Re: oooforum.org

On 11/20/2011 04:33 AM, Peter Junge wrote: Hi, is there any admin of oooforum.org around here? It's getting spamed with really disgusting content on the front page. Peter The OOoForum is fully managed to Ed Buck. He has two low level administrators of which I am one. Ed appears to have g

Re: working on a OpenOffice roadmap

On 10/21/2011 10:26 PM, Pedro Giffuni wrote: --- On Fri, 10/21/11, Rob Weir wrote: On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: On 10/20/2011 05:02 AM, Martin Hollmichel wrote: * A call to LibreOffice contributors also to contribute their changes to Apache as the ASF

Re: [Proposal] Shutting down legacy OOo mailing lists

On 10/20/2011 12:20 PM, Rob Weir wrote: On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Dave Fisher wrote: That may not be possible. It depends on how Oracle understands the ToU for the legacy lists and relevant data protection laws. Corporations tend to be conservative and risk-averse, I do not think they w

Re: working on a OpenOffice roadmap

On 10/20/2011 05:02 AM, Martin Hollmichel wrote: * A call to LibreOffice contributors also to contribute their changes to Apache as the ASF is the long desired independent foundation for OpenOffice.org. On this basis a collaboration among the OpenOffice.org Apache Project and TDF can be achieve

Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

On 09/06/2011 10:04 PM, Rob Weir wrote: It couldn't have been all that bad if you spent so much time volunteering on those boards. -Rob The problem is that the forum was setup years ago by a single individual who is too busy to maintain it. The forum software is very old and the spammers t

Re: [OT] What is needed for Support Forums to be fully integrated into the Apache OpenOffice.org project

On 09/07/2011 05:39 PM, eric b wrote: Hi ** , Le 7 sept. 11 à 22:03, Hagar Delest a écrit : Le mar. 06 sept. 2011 17:36:10 CEST, eric b a écrit : No, Hagar introduced his pseudo, not himself. I wonder how we can trust people we don't know the identity ? Regards, Eric First note that

Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

On 09/04/2011 02:23 PM, Rob Weir wrote: On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Terry Ellison wrote: On 04/09/11 18:01, Rob Weir wrote: On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Terry Ellison wrote: On 04/09/11 17:22, Simon Phipps wrote: If you do not own the hardware, the domain name and the trademark,

Re: Forums footer layout ( was : Migrating the web forums at user.services.openoffice.org to Apache servers )

On 08/06/2011 11:50 AM, drew wrote: On Sat, 2011-08-06 at 17:41 +0200, Eike Rathke wrote: Hi drew, On Saturday, 2011-08-06 11:27:14 -0400, drew wrote: Ok - here is a possible footer http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/w/images/c/cc/Aoo-OOo-Comm-Forum-footer.png The gulls should be above the