Re: [dev] datamatrix 2d barcodes for Calc
Hi Alessandro, On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 01:51:17AM +0100, Alessandro Zummo wrote: [...] I'm planning to write a plugin for Calc to draw DataMatrix 2D barcodes. If you don't have the logic already to actually generate that barcode, I suggest to have a look at the barcode4j project. http://barcode4j.sourceforge.net/ It is under Apache License v2 I'm new in writing plugins, so I would like to ask if someone can help in dealing with the interfacing with OO while I can write the barcode handling code. See above. You don't need to reinvent the whell :-) Basically the tough thing is embedding the generated graphic into the document. I was having trouble with this as well, but got around it using an idea from Danny Brewer (using the BitmapTable to get the graphic into the container): http://codesnippets.services.openoffice.org/Writer/Writer.EmbedAGraphicIntoATextdocument.snip If things goes well, support for other 1D and 2D barcode symbologies will be added. Others were faster :-)) (but maybe you could do the same in another programming language) ciao Christian -- NP: Bif Naked - Any Day Now - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [dev] DOES OOo has a grammar checker? (english,etc)
On Saturday 10 February 2007 06:15, jonathon wrote: The FLOSS ones were designed for Linux. That is not quite correct, most of them should work on any system. Here's a list of links: http://lingucomponent.openoffice.org/grammar.html -- http://www.danielnaber.de - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [dev] File | Open default file type
Allen Pulsifer wrote: Hello Mathias, There may be a misunderstanding about the suggestion. If you do a File | Open in OOo, the File Type displayed by default is All files (*.*). You can manually select Text documents, Spreadsheets, Presentations, etc., or you can select a specific file extension, such as OpenDocument Text (*.odt). The suggestion is not to list all file extensions supported by OOo. The suggestion is to add another type grouping, All Documents, that would be similar to Text documents, Spreadsheets, Presentations, etc. When selected, this would cause the File chooser dialog to display all document types supported by OOo, i.e., it would display Text documents + Spreadsheets + Presentations + In that way, it would be similar to All Files, except it would not display files with extensions OOo cannot open, such as .pdf. Does that make sense? Ah, fine. I misunderstood you and thought you wanted to change the behavior of All files. Yes, something like this could makes sense, though I'm wondering if All documents is understandable. Anyway, IMHO All documents shouldn't be the default filter as then you created a problem for all people that don't use extensions at all or that use files with unknown extensions (e.g. text files with extension log). These files then will not be visible by default though OOo could load them without any problems. OOo does not use extensions to decide wether it can load a particular file, it checks the content. Extensions are only a hint to speed up the search or resolve ambiguities. OTOH if we didn't use this all documents filter by default the question remains if it makes sense at all. As I understood you wanted to have this filter as a feature for the unexperienced users. But without having this filter used by default I assume that especially these user won't use it. So all in all I think that though your idea makes some sense I don't see how it could be implemented without either annoying a part of the user base or hiding this new filter so that especially the target audience for it will never find it. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[dev] How to check whether nas is working?
repost becasue I didn't recieve any answer... cc dev@openoffice.org this time. Hi *, How would I check whether nas support is working in an installation set? There's a compiletime option to disable or enable nas, but apart from its name (network audio support) I don't have a clue what it is used for and how to check whether it is really working in an installation. So could anybody give me some hints please? ciao Christian -- NP: Rage Against The Machine - Freedom Join #qa.OpenOffice.org on irc.freenode.net - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [dev] File | Open default file type
OTOH if we didn't use this all documents filter by default the question remains if it makes sense at all. Yes, I agree with you. If All documents is not the default then there might not be much benefit. A better approach might be to give the user an error or warning message when attempting to open a file of unknown type. For example, when you try to open a pdf, OOo displays a text filter configuration dialog box. A better approach might be to first tell the user: OOo does not recognize the format of this document. Would you like to try opening it as a text document? Allen - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
