[dev] Re: Issuezilla: How to follow fix after verify?

2007-05-14 Thread Joe Smith
Bernd Eilers wrote: ... There´s also a quick alternative way to get that kind of information: ... Nice--thanks. I see now that both the EIS and the issuelinks pages are available from any issue page under the Project Tools heading. Sorry I missed that before. Thanks again for the

[dev] Regexp support using libstdc++/tr1?

2007-05-17 Thread Joe Smith
I would dearly love to see OOo's regexp support get a solid foundation. The current implementation is based on a GNU regexp library from 1999, modified for OOo. This library is generally adequate but suffers from many glitches in syntax and semantics. In poking around a bit this week, I found

[dev] Re: Regexp support using libstdc++/tr1?

2007-05-18 Thread Joe Smith
Bernd Eilers wrote: ... I pretty much doubt that it would be possible to use just calls to these classes. This is because I would expect them to work on Srings and our Documents are just well a little bit more complex thing than just plain Strings. ... Sure. I'm still trying to work

[dev] Can't install latest 2.3 Dev Snapshot (SRC680_m212)

2007-05-19 Thread Joe Smith
$ ls -l OOo-Dev_SRC680_m212_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 jes jes 130406906 May 19 21:11 OOo-Dev_SRC680_m212_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz $ md5sum OOo-Dev_SRC680_m212_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz 72485f2c51a654e850719b3aaedefe47 OOo-Dev_SRC680_m212_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz --- from

[dev] Re: Can't install latest 2.3 Dev Snapshot (SRC680_m212)

2007-05-19 Thread Joe Smith
Joe Smith wrote: ... Same result with files from two different mirrors. Sorry, it does actually install and run. # rpm -ivh --prefix /home/openoffice.orgSRC680_m212 *.rpm Preparing... ### [100%] 1:ooo-dev-core08

[dev] Re: New chart integrated on the way to OOo 2.3

2007-05-25 Thread Joe Smith
Ingrid Halama wrote: ... You are welcome to download the latest developer snapshot containing the new chart for evaluation and testing purposes: ... Great news--congratulations! I've been waiting to give it a test drive; I'm sure a lot of other users have as well. Two questions: 1) What

[dev] Special characters broken in m213?

2007-05-26 Thread Joe Smith
Testing OOF680_m213 (pre 2.3) on Fedora Linux. Insert Special Character doesn't work at all for me--I just get a blank dialog window. Can anyone confirm this? It seems a little too obvious. Joe - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

[dev] m220 is unstable on Fedora 7

2007-07-12 Thread Joe Smith
Starts OK; registration finishes, but using the app (almost any action) for more than a few seconds triggers a crash with a recovery dialog. Please tell me if there's something else I can try. Joe - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

[dev] Re: m220 is unstable on Fedora 7

2007-07-12 Thread Joe Smith
Oliver Braun wrote: ... Try disabling online update check (Tools - Options - OpenOffice.org - Online Update). Yep, that's consistently where it poops out: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread -1231799408 (LWP 21348)] 0x07e04829 in ?? () from

[dev] Re: m220 is unstable on Fedora 7

2007-07-12 Thread Joe Smith
Joe Smith wrote: Oliver Braun wrote: ... Try disabling online update check (Tools - Options - OpenOffice.org - Online Update). Yep, that's consistently where it poops out: ... Seems stable now--thanks! Joe

[dev] Re: Disable automatic field updating

2007-08-13 Thread Joe Smith
Thullner, Robert wrote: Hello I have a problem with fields in OOo. I use OpenOffice to convert MS Word files to PDF format. The word files contain field functions(lastSaved, lastPrinted, savedBy, PageNumbers...). These field functions are automatically updated when I open the MS Word files

[dev] How to get a list of all CWS in a build?

2007-08-23 Thread Joe Smith
I'm looking at cws impress122 and I want to know if it has been integrated in the OOG680_mX builds. How can I do that? According to EIS, impress122 was integrated in m218 for 2.3: http://eis.services.openoffice.org/EIS2/cws.ShowCWS?Path=SRC680%2Fimpress122 but that's a different branch

[dev] Re: How to get a list of all CWS in a build?

2007-08-23 Thread Joe Smith
Eike Rathke wrote: I remember seeing somewhere a page that would list all cws integrated in a specific release, but now I can't find that page. That's in EIS under Child workspaces - Search, list box Release. Choose one, e.g. 'OOo 2.3', and from the Status list box select 'integrated', then

[dev] Re: [allfeatures] new/OOo 2.4 : Context menu entry to quickly insert picture background for slides

2007-11-10 Thread Joe Smith
I've started to see these messages on the features announce list (via Gmane). This seems like a good thing, but I have some questions: 1) Is there any mechanism for feedback on these features? None seem to have any issue number; are they supposed to be tracked through the CWS name? If so, is

[dev] Re: [allfeatures] new/OOo 2.4 : Context menu entry to quickly insert picture background for slides

2007-11-12 Thread Joe Smith
Mathias Bauer wrote: Joe Smith wrote: I've started to see these messages on the features announce list (via Gmane). This seems like a good thing, but I have some questions: 1) Is there any mechanism for feedback on these features? None seem to have any issue number; are they supposed

[dev] Re: feature feedback channels

2007-11-12 Thread Joe Smith
Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany wrote: ... I like this idea. ... Cool! Of course now there are some replies appearing on [EMAIL PROTECTED], so maybe that's the simplest thing. I read the list through Gmane, where it appears as ..OO.announce.features, so I assumed it would not be

[dev] Re: [allfeatures] new/OOo 2.4 : Context menu entry to quickly insert picture background for slides

2007-11-12 Thread Joe Smith
Uwe Fischer wrote: ... there is a Spec Doc at http://specs.openoffice.org/impress/sd.insertbackground.odt In that doc, the issue number is given as: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=82911 I assume we use this mailing list for feedback ... Ahh, of course. I should've

[dev] Re: [allfeatures] new/OOo 2.4 : Context menu entry to quickly insert picture background for slides

2007-11-13 Thread Joe Smith
Mathias Bauer wrote: ... I think your suggestion to allow for more and earlier feedback is valid and good. But getting involved should be a duty of those wanting to get involved, there shouldn't be a duty for iTeams to wait for input upfront. ... Just to be perfectly clear, I agree with you

[dev] Any workaround for auto file extension always on?

2008-01-08 Thread Joe Smith
The option for Automatic file name extension is to be removed from all file save dialogs as of OOo 2.4: http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=73876 As far as I can see, that will also remove any capability to save a file with an arbitrary user-specified extension. Before this change,

[dev] Re: Any workaround for auto file extension always on?

2008-01-10 Thread Joe Smith
Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany wrote: Hi Mathias, Sounds like the decision to remove the box was perhaps ... premature? No, just the way it was done is wrong. We should do it the following way: if the file name contains something that looks like an extension, leave it alone. If it

[dev] Re: Thank you for new Calc feature!

2008-01-25 Thread Joe Smith
Jonathan Kamens wrote: For years, I've been waiting for the Enter key to become smart ... ... To the developer who finally implemented this bit of functionality, I want to say thank you, and keep up the good work! There is quite a number of significant enhancements in the snapshots now,

[dev] Re: Proposal: Drop Win98 support with OOo 3.0 release

2008-02-11 Thread Joe Smith
Martin Hollmichel wrote: since the efforts for supporting Windows98 and WindowsME are reasonable high and makes maintainability of the code quite hard, I would like to propose to drop Windows 98/ME support with the release of OOo 3.0. ... (Briefly) what is it about supporting Win98 that

[dev] Re: Issue/Bug: OpenOffice.org 2.4.0rc1 (OOH680_m7)

2008-02-14 Thread Joe Smith
NoOp wrote: ... OOo_2.4.0rc1_20080211_LinuxIntel_install_en-US_deb.tar.gz from: http://mirrors.isc.org/pub/openoffice/contrib/rc/2.4.0rc1/ and installed as usual: sudo dpkg -i *.deb etc. This version is seriously broken; ... I've been running rc1 (Writer, Calc, Draw) all afternoon with

[dev] m29_LinuxIntel snapshot has no RPMs

2008-08-14 Thread Joe Smith
I'm trying to install the latest snapshot on a Fedora Linux system. Normally, I can use rpm to install the packages in the LinuxIntel tarball. However the latest snapshot has no RPMs: $ tar tzf OOo-Dev_DEV300_m29_LinuxIntel_install_en-US.tar.gz | grep -i rpm

[dev] Re: m29_LinuxIntel snapshot has no RPMs

2008-08-14 Thread Joe Smith
Christian Lohmaier wrote: It was planned to only provide cws-builds in that form, and keep with packages for the regular Milestone builds. m30 will have RPMs again. Cool. Thanks for the clue. I did get m29 to run. It turns out there are some files with too-restrictive permissions: # find

[dev] Re: m29_LinuxIntel snapshot has no RPMs

2008-08-15 Thread Joe Smith
Jean-Baptiste Faure wrote: ... There is a workaround in http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=92405 Merci! It works fine unpacked run under my home directory. Joe - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For