Re: Script to get infos about development snapshot differences
On 12/10/12 6:29 PM, Herbert Duerr wrote: As we want more regular snapshots it is interesting to know what happened to code since the last snapshot. To get such info automatically I created a python script named svnlog2info.py [1] which creates a html file for such a revision range. For the changes in AOO's trunk between 1405864 and 1418409 run python svnlog2info.py trunk 1405864 1418409 to get something like http://people.apache.org/~hdu/izlist.htm [1] http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/openoffice/devtools/scripts I hope this tool is useful for our project. thanks Herbert, I think it will be very useful when we create our release notes. Maybe we can tweak the output a little bit to improve the readability but is secondary ;-) To simplify the script I would like to remind all developers to add the issue number in a common way in the svn logs. I personally use always: --- #issue-number# short_one_line_description optional long description optional Patch By: suggested By: Found By: Review By: ---
Re: Project website migrated
Hi 2012/12/9 Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org: The only thing that still needs to be done is to set up a redirect from http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/ to http://openoffice.apache.org/ so that the incubator pages are redirected to the current ones. Compare: http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/mailing-lists.html (old content, contains the typo commmits) This redirect didn't. It's best left to the next year, as Rob said. Albino
Re: Script to get infos about development snapshot differences
On 11.12.2012 10:02, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: On 12/10/12 6:29 PM, Herbert Duerr wrote: As we want more regular snapshots it is interesting to know what happened to code since the last snapshot. To get such info automatically I created a python script named svnlog2info.py [1] which creates a html file for such a revision range. For the changes in AOO's trunk between 1405864 and 1418409 run python svnlog2info.py trunk 1405864 1418409 to get something like http://people.apache.org/~hdu/izlist.htm [1] http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/openoffice/devtools/scripts I hope this tool is useful for our project. thanks Herbert, I think it will be very useful when we create our release notes. Maybe we can tweak the output a little bit to improve the readability but is secondary ;-) I have just updated the script to sort and color code the issues addressed in the revision range by their type (FEATURE, ENHANCEMENT, PATCH, DEFECT or TASK) and their priority. I also added a new column with links to the individual commits for each issue. Please see for an example: http://people.apache.org/~hdu/izlist.htm To simplify the script I would like to remind all developers to add the issue number in a common way in the svn logs. I personally use always: --- #issue-number# short_one_line_description Having a reliably parseable issue number in the commit summary is really important for such automated helpers. To find the issue number the case-insensitive regular expression ^\s*(?:re)?(?:fix)?\s*(?:for)?\s*(?:bug|issue|problem)?\s*#?i?([1-9][0-9]+)[#: ] is currently used, which is already complicated enough. If there good reasons why this regexp would need to be extended for handling more kinds of issue references then please speak up now. Herbert
Changing Builddefinition of the sfx2 module (tag 341)
Hello We have a build breaker on solaris 11/Sparc tag 341, we suppose that we have to add all indirectely linked libraries to the call below. Solaris seems like OS X not to support indirect linking. /opt/solarisstudio12.3//bin/CC -Bdynamic -z text -G '-R$ORIGIN:$ORIGIN/../ure-link/lib' -L$S/solenv/unxsols4/lib -L$O/lib -L$S/solenv/unxsols4/lib -L$S/solenv/unxsols4/libsolaris.2.6 -L/lib -L/usr/lib -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/dt/lib -L/usr/openwin/lib -L/usr/jdk/instances/jdk1.6.0/lib -L/usr/jdk/instances/jdk1.6.0/jre/lib/sparc -L/usr/jdk/instances/jdk1.6.0/jre/lib/sparc/xawt -L/usr/jdk/instances/jdk1.6.0/jre/lib/sparc/native_threads -L/usr/lib -temp=/tmp -w -mt -Bdirect -z defs -z combreloc -norunpath -PIC -library=no%Cstd -lcomphelpC52 -luno_cppu -luno_cppuhelperC52 -lfwe -li18nisolang1C52 -luno_sal -lsax -lsb -lsot -lstlport_sunpro -lsvl -lsvt -ltk -ltl -lucbhelper4C52 -lutl -lvcl -lvos3C52 -lxml2 -lsfx -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lsecdb -ltsol -lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lpangoft2-1.0 -lpangocairo-1.0 -lXext -lXrender -lXinerama -lXi -lXrandr -lXcursor -lXcomposite -lXdamage -lgio-2.0 -lXfixes -lcairo -lX11 -lpango-1.0 -lfreetype -lfontconfig -lgdk_pixbuf_xlib-2.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lm -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -lgthread-2.0 -lpthread -lglib-2.0 $W/CxxObject/sfx2/source/appl/shutdowniconunx.o -o $W/LinkTarget/Library/libqstart_gtk.so We wanted to test this call with different linker settings. But the call has many variables: $ORIGIN/$W/$S. In order to continue with our investigation, we have to be either: 1. able to get the contents of this variables 2. find the definition of LIBS or similar for this project - The makefile seems to part of complex build system, that doesn't use make in a verbose way. Is there any documentation for gbuild.mk based makefiles? We found the command above using cd main/sfx2 /usr/bin/gmake -r -j1 which also gives us an error like this: Undefined symbol void*__Crun::ex_alloc(unsigned) first referenced in file /home/oobuild/aoo-build-341/ooo/main/solver/341/unxsols4.pro/workdir/CxxObject/sfx2/source/appl/shutdowniconunx.o (symbol belongs to implicit dependency /usr/lib/libCrun.so.1) ... ... all of the missing symbols are in implicit dependencies. Best, Jean-Louis Fuchs -- Adfinis SyGroup AG Jean-Louis 'Hans' Fuchs, Software Engineer Keltenstrasse 98 | CH-3018 Bern Tel.: +41 31 550 31 11
[proposal]: Enhance visualisation of Handles
Hi List, I took the time and started to look technically and bitmap'ally at the handles and how to make them some nicer, but also more useful (aka slightly transparent). For deeper information, please see the task (https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=121463) I have opened for it. I know handles and how they look is a question of taste; I tried to carefully alter them and did not take away any existiong options (two sets, two sizes to choose from, plus HighContrast). To take a look, follow the link to find the things I changed and the bitmaps in the files referenced there. P.S.: I actually used Draw and it's 3D engine to create the handles before scaling them down in a bitmap program, it's all in there :-) -- ALG
Official Solaris
Hello We are working on building AOO for Solaris on Sparc and x86. There are people out there who would like to see official builds for these platforms. For us (and our customers), this would also be a great step forward, and we're eager to do what we can to work on this. So, here's a few questions / discussion points. * What are the steps required to promote those builds to be official AOO builds? Is there an official process? * What is the process to make solaris a officially supported platform, other than providing official installers/binaries? We are currently checking with our customers if we could move to the GNU Toolchain instead of the Solaris-compiler. (One uses a plug-in that is available in binary only.) This would resolve many build-problems and reduce our effort. * Is something to be said against moving to GCC on solaris? Best, Jean-Louis Fuchs -- Adfinis SyGroup AG Jean-Louis 'Hans' Fuchs, Software Engineer Keltenstrasse 98 | CH-3018 Bern Tel.: +41 31 550 31 11
Re: Official Solaris
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 8:58 AM, Jean-Louis 'Hans' Fuchs jean-louis.fu...@adfinis-sygroup.ch wrote: Hello We are working on building AOO for Solaris on Sparc and x86. There are people out there who would like to see official builds for these platforms. For us (and our customers), this would also be a great step forward, and we're eager to do what we can to work on this. So, here's a few questions / discussion points. * What are the steps required to promote those builds to be official AOO builds? Is there an official process? * What is the process to make solaris a officially supported platform, other than providing official installers/binaries? The main requirement for adding Solaris as a platform is to sync up your work with Subversion and sync up with our release date and pre- and post-release activities. For Solaris build to be official for that release, we would need: 1) Someone volunteering to post regular builds for Solaris from the sources in our Subversion tree. 2) One or more people to test the Solaris builds. 3) Make sure all fixes and patches needed to build under Solaris are checked into Subversion 4) Before we reach Release Candidate for AOO 4.0, all changes needed to support Solaris are in Subversion, and we have build instructions on our wiki so a developer could download the source from Subversion and build on Solaris. In other words there is no additional secret knowledge or code needed to build. It is all in Subversion (or freely available compatible 3rd party modules). You can look at the level of detail provided for our other platforms for an example: http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide_AOO and https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Development+Snapshot+Builds#DevelopmentSnapshotBuilds-buildflags 5) For support, volunteers already provide support on user list and community forums. For most functional issues this would be fine. But you would probably want to monitor to see if any Solaris-specific issues come up. We are currently checking with our customers if we could move to the GNU Toolchain instead of the Solaris-compiler. (One uses a plug-in that is available in binary only.) This would resolve many build-problems and reduce our effort. * Is something to be said against moving to GCC on solaris? Best, Jean-Louis Fuchs -- Adfinis SyGroup AG Jean-Louis 'Hans' Fuchs, Software Engineer Keltenstrasse 98 | CH-3018 Bern Tel.: +41 31 550 31 11
Re: [proposal]: Enhance visualisation of Handles
Hi Armin, getting bigger handles is good. But I'm not convinced, that transparency is good. Please try the handles in a presentation, which has a dark background, like some master pages in our new set. LibreOffice has handles with transparency and I noticed, that they cannot be seen so good as the bright handles of AOO. More helpful for exact positions than transparency would be snap functions for handles and a tab in the sizeposition dialog for entering values directly. Especially the 3D handles are really nice and it is good that you show, what can be done in Draw. Kind regards Regina Armin Le Grand schrieb: Hi List, I took the time and started to look technically and bitmap'ally at the handles and how to make them some nicer, but also more useful (aka slightly transparent). For deeper information, please see the task (https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=121463) I have opened for it. I know handles and how they look is a question of taste; I tried to carefully alter them and did not take away any existiong options (two sets, two sizes to choose from, plus HighContrast). To take a look, follow the link to find the things I changed and the bitmaps in the files referenced there. P.S.: I actually used Draw and it's 3D engine to create the handles before scaling them down in a bitmap program, it's all in there :-) -- ALG
Learn SVN, and remove item
Hi How do I remove the word incubating the images ? I want help this item [1], is possible. I haven't experience with svn. 1 - https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Graduation+Infrastructure+Changes Albino
Re: Official Solaris
Hello Jean-Louis; From: Jean-Louis 'Hans' Fuchs Hello We are working on building AOO for Solaris on Sparc and x86. There are people out there who would like to see official builds for these platforms. For us (and our customers), this would also be a great step forward, and we're eager to do what we can to work on this. This is great news! So, here's a few questions / discussion points. * What are the steps required to promote those builds to be official AOO builds? Is there an official process? * What is the process to make solaris a officially supported platform, other than providing official installers/binaries? There is no actual process, we just want to make sure that there is someone that makes sure it builds and works fine with the code in trunk and that provides the official builds. I understand you might be helping set up a buildbot which is a great start. We are currently checking with our customers if we could move to the GNU Toolchain instead of the Solaris-compiler. (One uses a plug-in that is available in binary only.) This would resolve many build-problems and reduce our effort. * Is something to be said against moving to GCC on solaris? Nothing against it. The main issue is probably the C bridge and then the linux/bsd ports may be of help. There is a few documentation on how it's done: http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Porting_Introduction Pedro.
Re: Script to get infos about development snapshot differences
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Herbert Duerr h...@apache.org wrote: As we want more regular snapshots it is interesting to know what happened to code since the last snapshot. To get such info automatically I created a python script named svnlog2info.py [1] which creates a html file for such a revision range. For the changes in AOO's trunk between 1405864 and 1418409 run python svnlog2info.py trunk 1405864 1418409 to get something like http://people.apache.org/~hdu/izlist.htm [1] http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/openoffice/devtools/scripts I hope this tool is useful for our project. Very cool. And now I know where to go with my Python questions ;-) -Rob Herbert
Re: Learn SVN, and remove item
On 12/11/12 3:46 PM, Albino Biasutti Neto wrote: Hi How do I remove the word incubating the images ? the related image source files have to be changed. But maybe we should wait a little bit longer on the output of the branding efforts to avoid duplicate work. Juergen I want help this item [1], is possible. I haven't experience with svn. 1 - https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Graduation+Infrastructure+Changes Albino
Re: CMS diff:
On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Yan Ji anonym...@apache.org wrote: Clone URL (Committers only): https://cms.apache.org/redirect?new=anonymous;action=diff;uri=http://ooo-site.apache.org/stats%2Fdefects.txt Yan Ji Thanks for the patch. I just checked it in. -Rob Index: trunk/content/stats/defects.txt === --- trunk/content/stats/defects.txt (revision 1416085) +++ trunk/content/stats/defects.txt (working copy) @@ -17,3 +17,4 @@ 2012-09-01,2161,597 2012-10-01,2444,718 2012-11-01,2576,756 +2012-12-01,2680,780 \ No newline at end of file
Re: [Proposal] Create new mailing list: d...@openoffice.apache.org
There were no objections, so I think we can now request the new list. The service to request new mailing lists is here: https://infra.apache.org/officers/mlreq It requires an ASF Member or Officer to submit it, so Andrea will need to do this. List name: d...@openoffice.apache.org Moderators: b...@apache.org bin...@apache.org and...@pitonyak.org peter.ju...@gmx.org duanx...@gmail.com Thanks! -Rob On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: This idea has come up on another thread, where we've been discussed the future of the documentation effort and a future call for volunteers. We'd like a dedicated list for these efforts. Name: d...@openoffice.apache.org OR d...@openoffice.apache.org (I don't have a strong preference for the name) Moderators: Please respond if you can volunteer as moderator. We should aim for 2 or 3 geographically dispersed. I'll wait 72 hours, and if no objections we can ask Andrea to submit the form for the new list creation. Regards, -Rob
Re: Updating ooo-dev list subscriber stats -- need assist from list moderator
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: Could I get an assist from a dev list moderator to provide the updated count? I'm updated the stats page. I need the subscriber count. Moderators can get this by sending the dev-l...@openoffice.apache.org command. I just need the count, not the individual names. Thanks! I recently made a bash script to pull some NBA stats from the ESPN website. Was pretty simple, althought maybe using beautifulsoup in python would prove to be more effective. Anyway not much science here, just doing a lynx -dump http://path/to/site.html |grep -n3 $1 lynx is a cmd line browser, dump will just send the site to standard ouput and grep will filter 3 lines around whatever team I put in ($1 means is the first atribute). I also when it was long extensive tables I applied sed and cut to get rid of the excess of text. This was useful on pages like statistics. Again I would recomend python for a better formated scrapping. But hope this helps in such task. -Rob On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 5:56 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: This page here: http://www.openoffice.org/stats/ooo-dev-subscribers.html I'd like to update this one a month. Now seems like a good time. This is really, really easy to do. All that is required is to update this CSV file in Subversion and publish it on the website: http://www.openoffice.org/stats/ooo-dev.txt This is a 2 minute task for anyone familiar with the CMS. But we do need to feed it data that only a list moderator has access to. List moderators can get the current subscriber report by sending this request: ooo-dev-l...@incubator.apache.org. Can I get some help with this from a list moderator? Thanks! -Rob -- Alexandro Colorado Apache OpenOffice Contributor http://es.openoffice.org
Re: Updating ooo-dev list subscriber stats -- need assist from list moderator
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Dave Barton d...@tasit.net wrote: I updated https://www.openoffice.org/stats/ooo-dev-subscribers.html on Dec. 1 when the subscriber count was 425. Today the count stands at 433 OK. Great. You are one step ahead of me. Thanks, -Rob Regards Dave Original Message From: Rob Weir robw...@apache.org To: ooo-...@incubator.apache.org Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 11:48:42 -0500 Could I get an assist from a dev list moderator to provide the updated count? I'm updated the stats page. I need the subscriber count. Moderators can get this by sending the dev-l...@openoffice.apache.org command. I just need the count, not the individual names. Thanks! -Rob On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 5:56 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: This page here: http://www.openoffice.org/stats/ooo-dev-subscribers.html I'd like to update this one a month. Now seems like a good time. This is really, really easy to do. All that is required is to update this CSV file in Subversion and publish it on the website: http://www.openoffice.org/stats/ooo-dev.txt This is a 2 minute task for anyone familiar with the CMS. But we do need to feed it data that only a list moderator has access to. List moderators can get the current subscriber report by sending this request: ooo-dev-l...@incubator.apache.org. Can I get some help with this from a list moderator? Thanks! -Rob
Re: Current stats
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 02:35:06PM -0500, Rob Weir wrote: Slightly delayed due to the website migration, but here are the updated stats: -- 3.4.x downloads now over 28 million: http://www.openoffice.org/stats/downloads.html We might hit 30 million by the end of the month. -- Updated per-country downloads: http://www.openoffice.org/stats/countries.html No change in the ordering for the top 10. But Belgium and Brazil overtake India for positions #11 and #12. Also, three new download countries/territories: Niue, Tuvalu and Antarctica. -- Updated committers count: http://www.openoffice.org/stats/committers.html -- Updated dev list subscriber count: http://www.openoffice.org/stats/ooo-dev-subscribers.html -- Defect find/fix rates: http://www.openoffice.org/stats/defects.html It looks like http://www.openoffice.org/stats/ is missing a left navigation bar with Stats We Publish Download Counts Downloads by Country Committers Mailing list subscribers Defect find/fix rates If you one one, let me know. Regards -- Ariel Constenla-Haile La Plata, Argentina pgp98PgZPEIfr.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Current stats
On 11 December 2012 21:23, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 3:08 PM, janI j...@apache.org wrote: Nice statisticand I am sure when we (finally) get a danish release it will jump to a higher level...but anyhow considering we do not have a danish 3.4 release #56 is not bad !! If we look at version 3.3.0 downloads (and we still get these), Danish is the #1 download. So I agree that once we have AOO 3.4.1 released in Danish, it will be much higher in position. thought so, unless we have lost to end-users in the meantime...the do not wait forever, especially not with a very active danish user group. From the numbers I assume you are basing the download on ip addr. and NOT the language selected, it would be interesting to see a breakdown of the downloaded languages, and not from where they are downloaded. This is the download location, as reported by SourceForge via their Stats API.I assume it is based on IP Address of the HTTP request header. A while back I did a full matrix of language x country. It was interest, e.g., to see how widespread some translations were used, especially English, Spanish and French. This was back in May: http://markmail.org/message/gludyoq2n72iqwpa I can update that report. I thought of doing it as a table, but 20 languages x 230 countries isn't fun to look at in a browser. How about keeping the list you have right now, stating it is download place...and a second column with download language sort of: from, language Denmark: x y that way is would be less heavy on the browser...of course it also have a value to see e.g. how many times the danish version was downloaded in spain, but that is making it very very fine grained. Just the 2 numbers would be very nice. -Rob rgds jan I On 11 December 2012 20:35, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: Slightly delayed due to the website migration, but here are the updated stats: -- 3.4.x downloads now over 28 million: http://www.openoffice.org/stats/downloads.html We might hit 30 million by the end of the month. -- Updated per-country downloads: http://www.openoffice.org/stats/countries.html No change in the ordering for the top 10. But Belgium and Brazil overtake India for positions #11 and #12. Also, three new download countries/territories: Niue, Tuvalu and Antarctica. -- Updated committers count: http://www.openoffice.org/stats/committers.html -- Updated dev list subscriber count: http://www.openoffice.org/stats/ooo-dev-subscribers.html -- Defect find/fix rates: http://www.openoffice.org/stats/defects.html Regards, -Rob
Re: [proposal]: Enhance visualisation of Handles
Hi Armin, Armin Le Grand schrieb: Hi Regina, On 11.12.2012 15:36, Regina Henschel wrote: [..] More helpful for exact positions than transparency would be snap functions for handles and a tab in the sizeposition dialog for entering values directly. ?!? The geometry snaps (with all possibilities available on optiopns toolbar), what is the sense to snap handles, where their size is fixed and thus has no real meaning relative to the zoom showed in the document? Try to draw a parallelogram (from custom shapes) so that its upper edge is shifted 2cm to the right. Or for a polar handle, try to draw a sector (from custom shapes), which has exactly 30degree. It is not possible with the current UI. For classical sector shape exists a workaround: set a snap angle in ToolsOptions. Or for a parallelogram use a polygon and snap lines. But that do not work for custom shapes. I see no advantage of transparency. You loose the brightness and neon colors and get what? Please try it in LibreOffice. What do others think? Or I'm the only one who often use Draw? Kind regards Regina
Re: Fisheye setup?
[top posting] as a quick FYI on this. I contacted the Altassian folks, informed them of the svn move, and they will get to correcting this soonish. No need to change the link on: http://openoffice.apache.org/source.html I guess...some day Dec activity will just show up On 12/04/2012 10:19 AM, Kay Schenk wrote: On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 10:50 PM, Juergen Schmidt jogischm...@gmail.com wrote: Am Montag, 3. Dezember 2012 um 23:34 schrieb Kay Schenk: I don't know who did the initial setup for our fisheye instance -- https://fisheye6.atlassian.com/browse/ooo The last activity on trunk/main via this interface seems to be Nov 24. Does the fisheye instance need editing do the recent svn move? Since I don't download the complete source, I use this a lot to find stuff. :/ I don't know, I have tested fisheye ones but do not use it. A much better tool to search the code is opengrok. You can find an instance under http://opengrok.adfinis-sygroup.org/source I hope adfinis is keeping this up-to-date. Juergen Oh OK...I only brought this up because this it was referenced on our Source page: http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/source.html so I thought one of the folks on the dev list had set this up. I will look into opengrok -- MzK “How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?” -- Anais Nin -- MzK No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. -- Aesop
Re: [proposal] manual create new user on upgraded wiki
On 12/10/2012 09:39 AM, janI wrote: On 10 December 2012 17:51, Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/10/12 5:45 PM, Rob Weir wrote: On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 9:52 AM, janI j...@apache.org wrote: we have now seen over the last period that the number of new wiki users are very low and since the normal spam measures have received a -1, I propose the following for the new Wiki. What was the normal measure that got a -1? Are there no CAPTCHA plugins that work? maybe http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit This one is about edit, and not create user, or prime problem is create user and sending mail, Editing/Creating pages is a secondary problem. or better https://www.keycaptcha.com/mediawiki-captcha/ It might be an idea, but they are very focused on advertising, and that is something I do not like. Well...how does anyone else feel about this? Is this is the pertinent information -- https://www.keycaptcha.com/captcha-features-for-site-owners/ Is advertising required in some way? This is not clear to me. Ok, here's another one to check out -- https://developers.google.com/recaptcha/docs/mediawiki Juergen -Rob The new user page is changed, to send an e-mail to dev@openoffice.apache.org (as done manual today), and one of the sysop reply (as today). Thereby we can avoid a lot of spam. If no objections within 72 hours, I will continue along that path (ONLY for the new version of wiki). rgds Jan I -- MzK No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. -- Aesop
Request Mwiki account
Would you please create me a Wiki account. I wish to interact regarding macros. Preferred username: johnsojm47 email: jeffjohn...@cox.net
Re: Wish List Item - Compatibility with SolidWorks
Hi Al, As another in the M.E.field and a user of SolidWorks I would like this as well. However, I don't see that progressing far until Dassault is looking for alternatives. Dassault and Microsoft are large partners and as this quote from Dassault: “Microsoft technologies are at the foundation of everything we do. can be found on a Microsoft/Dassult partner page. http://www.microsoft.com/enterprise/partners/dassault.aspx#fbid=FEwAECyPuBb It's not just Excel, it's IE and Windows only also. Best regards, Carl On 11/24/2012 10:57 AM, Al Burbeck wrote: Greetings! Open Office has been a standard for me for a long time. My thanks to all who have contributed in one way or another. I ply my trade as a consulting mechanical engineer to a diverse list of manufacturers and create all of my design work in SolidWorks. Part parcel with my work are Bills of Materials, Weldment Cut lists, Table of Contents, and other custom spreadsheets I have developed. My clients have no issue with the Open Office document formats I use, and in some cases have moved their organizations solely to Open Office. The challenge for me is I cannot directly import Open Office documents into SolidWorks (any version. I use SolidWorks 2010 and 2012). It is necessary to convert to MS Office formats, as that is the only format SolidWorks accepts. While I can also convert to PDF and paste, there are the typical burdensome steps when document changes are required. I do the usual work-arounds, but it's a pain to constantly have to go through the routines. Same with MS Office files. How about getting with SolidWorks and get yourselves in their game? I am quite sure there are many, many others that would also appreciate the compatability. Or, if you have solution, please give me a heads-up. Best Regards, Al
