On 7/13/16, William Sullivan <billsull1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is anything published about these differences? > > Is there a forum for users on OS X? > > Is there a forum Moderator who uses OO Writer with OS X? > > I have submitted a problem to the forum, but all the response I get is from > people using OO Writer on Windows and they cannot understand the problem. > > Thank you, > > Bill Sullivan
Bill, When Stardivision Gmbh, a German software firm headed by Marco Boerries started making its StarOffice suite available across different PC and Mac platforms, they quickly realized they needed to support several operating systems at once with little reprogramming and visual differences (for the user). So they ended up creating a set of graphical components for "StarOffice" that looked the same and worked across the several supported operating systems (back then, Windows, Unix, OS/2, etc). They called that "framework as "StarView" (1) Then came Sun Microsystems which bought Stardivision and created Sun StarOffice and OpenOffice.org opening up the source code. It included further cross-platform abilities like separation of the different apps that make the "offic suite" into components (2). Then Oracle bought Sun and then after a revolt by a group of external programmers, Oracle decided to hand over OpenOffice.org to the Apache Software Foundation. All the above is to say: the cross-platform fundamentals remain the same on today's AOO. It has and continues to look and behave the same no matter what OS you use. There is little if any retraining to be done when moving across AOO running on different operating systems. The programs should work and behave the same no matter what the underlying operating system youu are using. FC (1) http://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/examining-the-starview-application-frame/184409128 (2) http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/co-uno.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
