On 11/26/2013 01:56 PM, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 08:34:04PM +0100, Jan Holesovsky wrote:
Thomas Krumbein píše v Pá 15. 11. 2013 v 15:43 +0100:
Well, this change was a small technical thing - but with a very big
influence on typical market applications. Every custom macro application
with dialogs or forms for user interfaces is influenced if dialogs/forms
using Date/time fields.
Have you filed a bugreport, please? A minimal example of the macro that
fails would be most appreciated.
Well - it´s not a bug, because you mentioned the change in release-notes
of version 4.1.
There are many ways how to make the problem less annoying in Basic
;-) - we control the Basic implementation, so can work around many
things, and if we are lucky, this will be one of them. I am sure
we'd try to do that before the release with the incompatible change
if we knew early.
Well, I considered doing some "magic" that when the property is
written, if it gets an integer, interpret it the old way and if it
gets a UNO Date struct, interpret it the obvious (new) way. Someone
(Stephan Bergmann?) told me that one could do that for attributes but
not (pseudo?)properties (or something like that); the Basic
implementation (bridge?) would refuse to even pass a value of the
wrong type to the C++ code. I don't see how to achieve it short of
special-casing this into the bridge / other parts of the Basic
implementation. Which sounds like a guaranteed subscription for
maintenance nightmares, and thus not the best of ideas. Would the
Basic implementation / UNO bridge people be willing to actually have
that kind of special-casing?
Not sure what you mean with the sentence about attributes and
properties. But the Basic implementation would indeed be the place
where to handle such special cases to improve backwards compatibility.
(Which matches the observation that Basic authors and Basic code, which
often comes included in documents, probably have the hardest time
copying with our deliberate incompatibilities.)
Stephan
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