[dev] How to add item category to Tools/Customize

2006-01-12 Thread Matthias Benkmann
Is it possible to create a new item category that will be listed in Tools/Customize/Add../Category and to put custom commands into it? I know I can create macros that will appear in the OpenOffice.org macros category, but this is not what I want. I want to create a custom Java component with its

[dev] Intro and advice sought

2006-01-12 Thread George Pitcher
Hi all, I build dedicated websites in support of the service that my company runs for UK universities and colleges. I am about to make my second platform move. I moved from Mac to Windows 5 years ago and am about to move again to Linux (Debian is currenty used by the company). I use PHP, MySQL

Re: [dev] Intro and advice sought

2006-01-12 Thread Claus Agerskov
On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, George Pitcher wrote: You might be asking 'What's all that got to do with OpenOffice?'. Well, one of the things I currently do on the Windows (NT4) version of one of my sites, is to build MS Word documents from scratch, using COM. This involves multi-page documents and

Re: [dev] How to add item category to Tools/Customize

2006-01-12 Thread Carsten Driesner
Matthias Benkmann wrote: Is it possible to create a new item category that will be listed in Tools/Customize/Add../Category and to put custom commands into it? I know I can create macros that will appear in the OpenOffice.org macros category, but this is not what I want. I want to create a

Re: [dev] How to add item category to Tools/Customize

2006-01-12 Thread Matthias Benkmann
On 1/12/06, Carsten Driesner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From my point of view you should provide all functions of your component with an add-on (menu bar, toolbar, popup menu in the add-on menu). Well, the functionality I want to provide is not supposed to be visible by default, nor do I wish

RE: [dev] Intro and advice sought

2006-01-12 Thread George Pitcher
Claus, Thanks, I'll have a look at that. Cheers George -Original Message- From: Claus Agerskov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 January 2006 10:13 am To: dev@openoffice.org Subject: Re: [dev] Intro and advice sought On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, George Pitcher wrote: You might

Re: [dev] Build ID INSANITY...

2006-01-12 Thread Eike Rathke
Hi Heiner, On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 12:09:55 +0100, Heiner Rechtien wrote: Mathias Bauer wrote: Here I disagree. The version shound contain only the regular version number, but why not showing the build version directly in the About dialog below the version (instead of asking for CTRL-SDT to

Re: [dev] How to add item category to Tools/Customize

2006-01-12 Thread Carsten Driesner
Matthias Benkmann wrote: On 1/12/06, Carsten Driesner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From my point of view you should provide all functions of your component with an add-on (menu bar, toolbar, popup menu in the add-on menu). Well, the functionality I want to provide is not supposed to be visible

[dev] cow_wrapper proposal (was: [dev] Helper of the Day: call for papers)

2006-01-12 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Hi *, well, this one does not exactly present an existing helper, but rather introduces a new one. After fixing a self-assignment blunder in basegfx/source/matrix/b2dhommatrix.cxx, which happened in the copy-on-write-related parts of operator=(), I started to wonder why on earth everybody and

[dev] OpenOffice.org Developer Article Contest Rules - First Draft

2006-01-12 Thread Erwin Tenhumberg
Hi all, Here is a first draft of the rules for the OpenOffice.org developer article contest that I introduced a few days/weeks ago. Please take a look a the rules and provide feedback! As you can see below, I'd like to start the contest on February 1. Thanks a lot and all the best, Erwin

Re: [dev] OpenOffice.org Developer Article Contest Rules - First Draft

2006-01-12 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Erwin, Erwin Tenhumberg wrote: [...] submission deadline date. Only content that has been created AFTER the start date of the contest can be submitted, e.g. old articles and blog entries can be used. Seems not correct to me. No further comments. Only that it looks good and promising!

Re: [dev] OpenOffice.org Developer Article Contest Rules - First Draft

2006-01-12 Thread Stefan Taxhet
Hi, Erwin Tenhumberg wrote: What can be won? Each winner gets $750. (In what way/format???) Preferably PayPal; bank transfer otherwise. What criteria do article have to meet to get accepted? == A submitted article has to

Re: [dev] Build ID INSANITY...

2006-01-12 Thread Mathias Bauer
Jens-Heiner Rechtien wrote: Here I disagree. The version shound contain only the regular version number, but why not showing the build version directly in the About dialog below the version (instead of asking for CTRL-SDT to display it)? Yes, please let's do this. And it should be the

Re: [dev] How to add item category to Tools/Customize

2006-01-12 Thread Matthias Benkmann
May be you want to write a request for enhancement as we think to extend our add-on concept for the next major version. Any information what external developers need can be of great value for us. Done. http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=60471 Matthias