[users] Re: MS Word Alternative
Dale Erwin wrote: but .odt is the proper file extension for ODF files. For text files. Spreadsheets use .ods etc. -- - To unsubscribe send email to users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
[users] Basic – Feeling stupid…
For years I have emptied arrays by just setting each element to 0 with For loops. That's time consuming for big arrays and today when I was looking at some old code I wrote a couple of years ago I ran into those lines, and I thought that there must be a much better way to do this, so I started thinking… And yes, of course there is! How many times didn't I scratch my head when my array is suddenly empty when I forgot ”Preserve” in ReDim? So why not just forget it by purpose…? Here's my example code: REM * BASIC * Option Explicit Sub Main Const MaxElements=100 ' Create an array. Dim A(1 To MaxElements) As Integer Dim i As Long ' Fill the array with some data. Randomize For i=1 To MaxElements A(i)=Rnd*1000 Next i ' Empty the array. Dim Time As Long Time=GetSystemTicks() For i=1 To MaxElements A(i)=0 Next i Print GetSystemTicks()-Time ' Fill it again. For i=1 To MaxElements A(i)=Rnd*1000 Next i ' Empty it again. Time=GetSystemTicks() ReDim A(1 To MaxElements) As Integer Print GetSystemTicks()-Time End Sub Running this, two message boxes (from the Print command) pops upp. Typically the first one displays around 14000 (14213 when I tested a few seconds ago) and the second one around 600 – 800 (797 in this case, 638 is the lowest value so far). After trying a couple of times it seems like the ReDim statement is about 20 times faster than the For loop. It doesn't really matter for small arrays, but the ReDim is a one-liner, For requires three lines. So now I feel really stupid that I didn't think of this before… By the way, the getSystemTicks() function seems to return the time in ms, at least on my system (did some experiments with it a while ago). Try this one, for example: REM * BASIC * Sub Main Dim A As Long, B As Long, C As Long A=getSystemTicks() Wait 100 B=getSystemTicks() Wait 100 C=getSystemTicks() Print A, B, C End Sub Kind regards Johnny Rosenberg ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ -- - To unsubscribe send email to users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
[users] Calc fails inexplicably
Hello: Calc now offers VERY LARGE numbers of rows and columns. On the surface this seems great, but I have recently encountered problems updating a spreadsheet which uses just IT columns and 1055 rows on the main sheet, and about 9 subordinate sheets, mostly with just a few cells filled. One sheet has graphs based on the contents of the main sheet (and it can be a little slow to update). The specific problem was that Calc simply aborted without warning when I did an Edit-Fill-Down on several dozen columns. The version is 3.3.0, M20, build 9567. Another issue is that adding a reference takes forever - not just a long time as the maintainers suggested. One last issue is that OO when initiated without the command line option -norestore, it says that it wants to restore a small CSV file that always exists on my system. If I click OK, it aborts, again without warning. Anyone else had similar problems? Are these bugs that need to be reported? Dean -- Dean Provins, P. Geoph. dprov...@alumni.ucalgary.ca KeyID at at pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371: 0x9643AE65 Fingerprint: 9B79 75FB 5C2B 22D0 6C8C 5A87 D579 9BE5 9643 AE65 -- - To unsubscribe send email to users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
[users] Re: operating problem
Copy to Roy Commander - Non-Subscribed Poster Original Message From: David Barlow davebar...@clear.net.nz To: users@openoffice.org Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2011 09:22:58 +1200 I had the same thing and installed O.O. 3.3 WITHOUT uninstalling first - and it worked. Dave Barlow N.Z. -- From: Johnny Rosenberg gurus.knu...@gmail.com Sent: Monday, August 08, 2011 8:21 AM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: [users] Re: operating problem 2011/8/4 Roy Commander r...@talktalk.net: Hi I have been using Open Office for a number of years as a private individual. Suddenly it fails to work,I cannot access my files or open Open Office files without being asked to register which I have done on a number of occasions only to be back to no access, I have also tried uninstalling and reinstalling all to no avail. Can you help please I am a retired pensioner. Thanks Roy Commander UK Maybe if we know what you've got. What version of OpenOffice.org? What operating system (and version)? Kind regards Johnny Rosenberg Roy, You do NOT have to register to download, install or use OpenOffice.org I recommend you take Dave Barlow's advice and get 3.3.0 from: http://www.openoffice.org/ Dave -- - To unsubscribe send email to users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
[users] Re: MS Word Alternative
Copy to paul whitehill - Non-Subscribed Poster Original Message From: Doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net To: users@openoffice.org Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2011 17:18:22 -0400 On 08/07/2011 04:18 PM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: 2011/7/30 paul whitehillwhitehill_p...@yahoo.com: Hi i wonder if you can help me. I wonder that too� the alternative seems to have a charge £1.59 but it says it is free. What alternative and to what? OpenOffice.org is free if you download it at http://www.openoffice.org/. No charge what so ever, as long as you download it yourself. Is the open office Writer the same as MS Word ? No. If it was, it wouldn't be free. This is the software I want to type up a document, can you help me ? Well� download it from http://www.openoffice.org/, install it, run it and start typing� Don't forget to use Styles from the beginning. It will save you a lot of time later. There is built in help which is sometimes helpful. If not, ask specific questions here. Are there any software clashes, Say i want to send a document attached to my e.mail, will it Open in all systems? Yes, as long as support for ODF is installed (like OpenOffice.org, LibreOffice, AbiWord, ODF-plugins for MS Office and so on). If the receiver doesn't have to edit your document, you can always send it as a PDF. Thanks, please answer my questions Regards, Paul Whitehill. What's ODF? My OO/LO/Symnphony wants to save in .odt. --doug ODF (OpenDocument ISO/IEC 26300:2006 standard file format http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ODF) -- - To unsubscribe send email to users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
[users] Re: operating problem
To all. My advice seems to have taken a step backwards. Every time I open O.O. up, it now lasts for about a minute and then crashes, regardless of what I do. I've tried everything I know and it won't come right. Don't quite know what to do next. Come back Sun Systems! David Barlow N.Z. -- From: Dave Barton d...@tasit.net Sent: Monday, August 08, 2011 10:25 AM To: users@openoffice.org Cc: r...@talktalk.net Subject: [users] Re: operating problem Copy to Roy Commander - Non-Subscribed Poster Original Message From: David Barlow davebar...@clear.net.nz To: users@openoffice.org Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2011 09:22:58 +1200 I had the same thing and installed O.O. 3.3 WITHOUT uninstalling first - and it worked. Dave Barlow N.Z. -- From: Johnny Rosenberg gurus.knu...@gmail.com Sent: Monday, August 08, 2011 8:21 AM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: [users] Re: operating problem 2011/8/4 Roy Commander r...@talktalk.net: Hi I have been using Open Office for a number of years as a private individual. Suddenly it fails to work,I cannot access my files or open Open Office files without being asked to register which I have done on a number of occasions only to be back to no access, I have also tried uninstalling and reinstalling all to no avail. Can you help please I am a retired pensioner. Thanks Roy Commander UK Maybe if we know what you've got. What version of OpenOffice.org? What operating system (and version)? Kind regards Johnny Rosenberg Roy, You do NOT have to register to download, install or use OpenOffice.org I recommend you take Dave Barlow's advice and get 3.3.0 from: http://www.openoffice.org/ Dave -- - To unsubscribe send email to users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help -- - To unsubscribe send email to users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
[users] Re: operating problem
I have just found that if disconnect from the net, O.O. operates perfectly well without 'crashing!' David Barlow N.Z. -- From: David Barlow davebar...@clear.net.nz Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2011 12:55 PM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: [users] Re: operating problem To all. My advice seems to have taken a step backwards. Every time I open O.O. up, it now lasts for about a minute and then crashes, regardless of what I do. I've tried everything I know and it won't come right. Don't quite know what to do next. Come back Sun Systems! David Barlow N.Z. -- From: Dave Barton d...@tasit.net Sent: Monday, August 08, 2011 10:25 AM To: users@openoffice.org Cc: r...@talktalk.net Subject: [users] Re: operating problem Copy to Roy Commander - Non-Subscribed Poster Original Message From: David Barlow davebar...@clear.net.nz To: users@openoffice.org Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2011 09:22:58 +1200 I had the same thing and installed O.O. 3.3 WITHOUT uninstalling first - and it worked. Dave Barlow N.Z. -- From: Johnny Rosenberg gurus.knu...@gmail.com Sent: Monday, August 08, 2011 8:21 AM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: [users] Re: operating problem 2011/8/4 Roy Commander r...@talktalk.net: Hi I have been using Open Office for a number of years as a private individual. Suddenly it fails to work,I cannot access my files or open Open Office files without being asked to register which I have done on a number of occasions only to be back to no access, I have also tried uninstalling and reinstalling all to no avail. Can you help please I am a retired pensioner. Thanks Roy Commander UK Maybe if we know what you've got. What version of OpenOffice.org? What operating system (and version)? Kind regards Johnny Rosenberg Roy, You do NOT have to register to download, install or use OpenOffice.org I recommend you take Dave Barlow's advice and get 3.3.0 from: http://www.openoffice.org/ Dave -- - To unsubscribe send email to users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help -- - To unsubscribe send email to users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help -- - To unsubscribe send email to users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
