Re: [framework-dev] File locking in 2.*

2008-10-02 Thread Mathias Bauer
Hi Dirk, if you are planning a browser plugin that should cooperate with OOo, monitoring system file locking is a dead-end street as in OOo3.0 this will work totally different. IMHO there are better ways to "localize" remote files, providing webdav access (either on the server or by an applicatio

Re: [framework-dev] File locking in 2.*

2008-10-01 Thread Mikhail Voitenko
Hi Dirk, OOo ( any version ) does not lock files opened using remote protocols currently ( http:, https: and etc ), except the case when the path to the files is mounted as a local volume and thus is masqueraded as local file system path. In the last case the office recognizes them as local f

Re: [framework-dev] File locking in 2.*

2008-09-30 Thread Dirk Bonenkamp - Bean IT
Hi Mikhail, First off all, thank your for your reply. I'm intending to do it through a third party application. This is a browser plugin, which enables you to open files which are located online, just as they where on your local pc. This works fine, except that I'm facing difficulties in moni

Re: [framework-dev] File locking in 2.*

2008-09-30 Thread Mikhail Voitenko
Hi Dirk, OOo2.x versions use the system file locking. So it depends from the OS, how the locked file is handled. The easiest way seems to be to try just to open a file for editing ( with the appropriate system locking ). It is not clear in which context you are going to do it. Will it be third

[framework-dev] File locking in 2.*

2008-09-30 Thread Dirk Bonenkamp - Bean IT
Hi all, I don't know if this is the right place to ask... I already tried the forum, but no answer over there. I also searched the web quite a lot, but no luck. I'd like to know how the file locking of OpenOffice files works in version 2.* (I did find a document about locking in 3.*, but tha