[dev] Re: does anybody still use tcsh to build OOo?

2011-04-05 Thread Malte Timmermann
I guess it shouldn't make a big difference for anyone whether he uses bash or tcsh for building OOo, so killing tcsh support is fine, IMO. Malte. Michael Stahl wrote, On 05.04.2011 13:04: hi all, currently configure generates 2 shell scripts for the environment, one for Bourne shell and

Re: [dev] where can i get the WORDSTAR source??

2011-02-14 Thread Malte Timmermann
You are kidding, aren't you? vaishnav kumarT.C wrote, On 02/14/11 14:48: hi everyone, i m currently doing a project in OPENOFFICE WRITER 3.2, i m in need of the old word processor 'WORDSTAR' s *source code.* Do anyone know where can i get the wordstar source code? i am very

Re: [dev] An image editing extension for Open office writer

2011-01-17 Thread Malte Timmermann
Hi Lakmal, I didn't try the extension yet, but the demo video indeed looks promising! :) Malte. lakmal padmakumara wrote, On 01/17/11 16:55: Hi all , I'm engaging in developing an extension for OO writer which allows users to * Re-size/Zoom images with different

Re: [dev] OOo starts working after installing VS 2008 C++ Express

2010-11-26 Thread Malte Timmermann
Hi Knut, actually, it should work out of the box when doing a regular OOo installation, as that would install the runtimes automatically. I just verified with OOo 3.3 RC on a plain Windows XP system, where I didn't install anything Except vanilla XP. How did you install OOo? (And which version

Re: [dev] OOo starts working after installing VS 2008 C++ Express

2010-11-26 Thread Malte Timmermann
customer have paid a lot of money to patch a broken installation. A lot of registry settings was also incorrect. On 26 November 2010 13:59, Malte Timmermann malte.timmerm...@oracle.com wrote: Hi Knut, actually, it should work out of the box when doing a regular OOo installation

Re: [dev] Slowness on UNC path

2010-10-15 Thread Malte Timmermann
Hi Camille, seems the configurations have been very different, so comparing didn't help much. But I just tried to set all existing file and printer sharing rules to block, which did the trick. (While adding a new rule for blocking it didn't help - seems the firewall simply stops processing rules

Re: [dev] Slowness on UNC path

2010-10-13 Thread Malte Timmermann
Hi Camille, I would like to look at that, but need help reproducing it. See my comments in the issue... Malte. MOULIN Camille wrote, On 10/13/10 15:12: Dear OOo Dev, I'd like to have your opinion on the issue 105283. http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=105283 In a

Re: [dev] Missing vcl resource

2010-09-09 Thread Malte Timmermann
3.2.1.4 sounds like ooo-build, not vanilla OOo, so please use the ooo-build mailing list for such questions... Malte. Soohong Min wrote, On 08.09.10 21:09: Hello, After building Openoffice 3.2.1.4, I tried to operate Openoffice by some scripts. I got error message as follows: Missing

Re: [dev] Two exploitable OpenOffice.org bugs!

2010-08-06 Thread Malte Timmermann
Will be handled by the OOo Security Team. http://www.openoffice.org/security/ Malte / OOo Security Team. Kálmán „KAMI” Szalai wrote, On 08/06/10 12:10: Hi Developers, Today I got a mail about this documentation about two OpenOffice.org bug in the latest version (3.2.1):

Re: [dev] FASTBOOL macro vs bool - decrease memory usage

2010-06-24 Thread Malte Timmermann
+1 for removing this ancient thing. Not for memory reasons (I doubt it would really make a difference), but for code cleanup reasons. I don't know how risky this is when it comes to the binfilter module. If the old binary filters simply stream FASTBOOL variables, the document format would

Re: [dev] SfxItemSet assumptions and assertions

2010-06-16 Thread Malte Timmermann
Mathias Bauer wrote, On 06/16/10 10:11: On 15.06.2010 11:47, Björn Michaelsen wrote: Well, the implementation in new_itemsets only checks for the which id being 0 and never checks for the type being an SfxVoidItem (outside assertions). So an disabled item is consistently defined as any

Re: [dev] SfxItemSet assumptions and assertions

2010-06-16 Thread Malte Timmermann
below in other places. Malte. Malte Timmermann wrote, On 06/16/10 11:07: Mathias Bauer wrote, On 06/16/10 10:11: On 15.06.2010 11:47, Björn Michaelsen wrote: Well, the implementation in new_itemsets only checks for the which id being 0 and never checks for the type being an SfxVoidItem

Re: [dev] SfxItemSet assumptions and assertions

2010-06-14 Thread Malte Timmermann
Hi Bjoern, Björn Michaelsen wrote, On 06/14/10 13:34: Hi all, while testing the new SfxItemSets in cws new_itemsets I came across a few interesting uses of itemsets which I had considered to be illegal (but I might be wrong there). I assumed: - non-void items should only be put at the same

Re: [dev] SfxItemSet assumptions and assertions

2010-06-14 Thread Malte Timmermann
Björn Michaelsen wrote, On 06/14/10 16:09: Am Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:11:57 +0200 schrieb Malte Timmermann malte.timmerm...@sun.com: Hi Bjoern, Björn Michaelsen wrote, On 06/14/10 13:34: Hi all, while testing the new SfxItemSets in cws new_itemsets I came across a few interesting uses

Re: [dev] Not so free version of Openoffice

2010-04-14 Thread Malte Timmermann
Tor is right, see http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/SellingOOo#FAQ:_Is_it_Legal_to_sell_OpenOffice.org_Software.3F Malte. Tor Lillqvist wrote, On 04/14/10 11:40: Is somebody trying to earn money by distributing Openoffice without the consentment of SunMicrosystems? Nothing in the

Re: [dev] Should assertions abort?

2010-02-12 Thread Malte Timmermann
Christian Lippka wrote, On 02/12/10 12:34: Assertions are the first, cheapest and easiest way of defense in the fight for software quality. My 2c, assertions must not abort, developer must use non pro builds, assertions should be used in every new peace of code. I fully agree. -1 for

Re: [dev] Security

2009-10-21 Thread Malte Timmermann
Cool :) I guess you should visit the OOo Security Project, and subscribe to that mailing list: http://security.openoffice.org Malte. Ravipriya Thushara wrote, On 10/21/09 06:26: Hi, Im developing a File format fuzzer for Open Office.org. So It'll be easier to find vulnerabilities using it.

Re: [dev] Drawing layer performance problem.

2009-08-24 Thread Malte Timmermann
Hi zhiyong xue, for the first question: You are right that there shouldn't be too many SdrObject::RecalcBoundRect. I guess calls to RecalcBoundRect are not avoidable, because the ODF file only contains the object size, which doesn't have to be the same like the real text area. But it should

Re: [dev] Bug (fix attached) related to document signatures

2009-07-13 Thread Malte Timmermann
Hi Tomas, thanks for this - IIRC I already saw similar effects with other ID cards. May I ask you to file an issues for this, and attach the patch (which was cut off by the mailing list anyway)? The owner would be jl. Thanks and best regards, Malte. PS: You might want to look at our new

Re: [dev] OpenOffice running on Windows 7

2009-06-12 Thread Malte Timmermann
Mechtilde wrote, On 06/12/09 10:48: What happens with the system dialogs under Windows 7? Do we expect the similar problems as with Vista? We expected, and people are already working on this. At least on the file picker, not sure about other dialogs. Malte.

Re: [dev] [ClassRoom] Log available : introduction to git tool

2009-06-12 Thread Malte Timmermann
Jens-Heiner Rechtien wrote, On 06/12/09 15:33: Gi Eric, eric.bachard wrote: Hi, FYI, we had a nice ClassRoom, about git introduction, made by Jérémie Laval (from UTBM). As usual the log is available at : http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Education_ClassRoom/Previous_Logs/git

Re: [dev] Please fix these security flaws that could be considered bugs ...

2009-04-16 Thread Malte Timmermann
Well, Rene is right, but I also agree that it should be easy for people to delete the list. Instead of some config item in a dialog, which nobody will find, an extra menu item at the end of the list (with a separator above) would be nice: Clear list Or introduce some config in the dialog

Re: [dev] Please fix these security flaws that could be considered bugs ...

2009-04-16 Thread Malte Timmermann
Rail Aliev wrote, On 04/16/09 11:00: On Thursday 16 April 2009 12:28:04 Malte Timmermann wrote: Well, Rene is right, but I also agree that it should be easy for people to delete the list. BTW, there is History Manager extension [1] where you can tweak your recently used document count

Re: [dev] Qt as a valid replacement for VCL

2009-01-16 Thread Malte Timmermann
When reading the announcement, I also though that Qt would be a valid option now :) The reason that I didn't post it here was that I didn't want to discuss it when nobody would work on a VCL replacement now. Sun Team in Hamburg not working on it of course doesn't mean that not somebody else

Re: [dev] Qt as a valid replacement for VCL

2009-01-16 Thread Malte Timmermann
of Qt's IAccessible2 implementation on Windows - which then would also mean that all OOo UAA implementations would need to be bridged to IA2 then, instead of to Java Accessibility APIs. Without Accessibility issues solved/solvable, every toolkit change is a no-go. Malte. Malte Timmermann wrote, On 01

[dev] OOo BoundsChecker How-To

2008-12-08 Thread Malte Timmermann
Hi, it's been a while (6 years) that I had created an OOo BoundsChecker How-To, and I had to figure out that it was not 100% up to date anymore ;) Some changes had been necessary to reflect 3-Layer-Office and new Memory Manager. Instead of updating the html file in the tools project, I decided

Re: [dev] Re: XUL to replace VCL?

2008-11-20 Thread Malte Timmermann
Alan Lord wrote, On 11/20/08 02:51 PM: Jan Holesovsky wrote: snip / The ongoing work is internally called 'Layout', and Michael Meeks had a presenatation about that on this year's OOoCon (unfortunately the slides are not uploaded yet). They are now.

Re: [dev] SVN-ignored files

2008-10-16 Thread Malte Timmermann
In short: Can we please add the platform-dependent output tree names as svn:ignore property to all modules? +1 Malte. Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany wrote, On 10/16/08 10:53 AM: Hi, now that we start working with SVN-based CWSes, those module output trees (common[.pro],

Re: [dev] SVN-ignored files

2008-10-16 Thread Malte Timmermann
to do so, it would be a PITA - so why should we do? Malte. Jens-Heiner Rechtien wrote, On 10/16/08 12:34 PM: bjoern michaelsen - Sun Microsystems - Hamburg Germany wrote: On 10/16/08 11:00, Malte Timmermann wrote: In short: Can we please add the platform-dependent output tree names as svn:ignore

Re: [dev] Certificate database architecture for NSS in Openoffice

2008-07-02 Thread Malte Timmermann
Since it's 100% the same question you asked yesterday: See my answer from yesterday, or rephrase. Make sure to be subscribed to the list, otherwise per default you won't get the answers... Malte. Ruchi Lohani wrote, On 02.07.08 18:07: Hi, Can anybody explain me how Open office uses the

Re: [dev] Certificate database architecture for NSS in Openoffice

2008-07-02 Thread Malte Timmermann
not recommended to use those for other applications also and applications should have their own copy of db. Any specific reasons for the way why open office is doing it? Thanks -Ruchi Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:14:16 +0200 From: Malte Timmermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-type: text/plain

Re: [dev] Certificate database architecture in OpenOffice

2008-07-01 Thread Malte Timmermann
No copy - simply using your default/current mozilla profile. Search order for profiles is thunderbird-mozilla-firefox http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Certificate_Detection On Windows, the personal Windows key store is used, instead of Mozilla. Malte. Ruchi Lohani wrote, On 01.07.08

Re: [dev] digital signature questions - multiple signatures, etc

2008-05-22 Thread Malte Timmermann
Jurgis, multiple signatures already work, all are contained in the same documentsignature.xml. We already have on our list to offer fields for displaying signature information, but IMHO no concrete plans to start such an implementation because we also have many many other things to do. Signing

Re: [dev] List of 2730 uncallable methods in DEV300_m10

2008-05-06 Thread Malte Timmermann
Methods with very strange names, hard to speak ;) No just kidding - it means that very likely (100%?) these methods are never used/called from somewhere. Malte. Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany wrote, On 06.05.08 09:51: Hi Caolan, See

Re: [dev] RFC: java 1.5

2008-03-06 Thread Malte Timmermann
My point of view: Most people agree that OOo mustn't loose (meta) data when Java is not available, but plug ins for working with meta data can rely on Java. Changing OOo's Java base line from 1.4 to 1.5 is fine for most people then. Malte. Charles-H. Schulz wrote, On 03/06/08 18:02: Hi,

Re: [dev] Digital signatures in OOo. What about OOo 3.0?

2008-03-04 Thread Malte Timmermann
Having a Plugin doing the signature verification is one thing. The Plugin could even alert the user in case the signature is broken. But right now there is no way to get that information into the OOo framework, which then makes sure that the status occurs in the status bar, and that the

Re: [dev] RFC: java 1.5

2008-03-03 Thread Malte Timmermann
Thorsten Behrens wrote, On 03/03/08 17:21: On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 04:08:16PM +0100, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 15:37 +0100, Michael Stahl wrote: what are your opinions on making java 1.5 a requirement for OOo 3.0? Unfavorable. (this is a personal opinion) If -and only

Re: [dev] I Want to get involved in Flash-SWF format export utility from within OpenOffice desktop software

2008-01-29 Thread Malte Timmermann
Radheevar, for which document types are you considering the Flash export? Right now we have one for Presentations. Not sure if people need one for Text documents or Spreadsheets. I think there is some space for improvement in the export of presentations, so if you like to work on that, it

Re: [dev] how to sign a document macro ?

2008-01-16 Thread Malte Timmermann
Open the doc, choose tools / macros / digital signatures Malte. Oliver Brinzing wrote, On 01/16/08 09:46: Hi, i have a question about how to sign a document macro (*only* the macro, *not* the document content). For example a user should be able to edit the document but not allowed

Re: [dev] how to sign a document macro ?

2008-01-16 Thread Malte Timmermann
Then something is broken - file an issue please. Malte. Oliver Brinzing wrote, On 01/16/08 13:55: Hi Malte, Open the doc, choose tools / macros / digital signatures that's exactly what i did. After signing i can reload the document and execute the macros ... but if i edit the

Re: [dev] Disabled Record macro menu in Impress and Draw

2007-08-20 Thread Malte Timmermann
If it's not implemented, I wonder if it wouldn't be better to remove the menu item instead of disabling it... Malte. Mathias Bauer wrote, On 08/20/07 08:44: KAMI wrote: Hi! Few minutes ago someone said on IRC channel the Record Macro menu elements in the Tools are disabled in Impress

Re: [dev] A question about the destructor

2007-07-25 Thread Malte Timmermann
Andreas... Andreas Martens wrote: Hi Malte, Malte Timmermann wrote: IMHO there should be some notification, so the Layouts are simply listeners and we don't need the parameter. That's what I meant. My question was: why do we need this parameter in SwDoc::DeleteSection(..)? But I am

Re: [dev] A question about the destructor

2007-07-24 Thread Malte Timmermann
IMHO there should be some notification, so the Layouts are simply listeners and we don't need the parameter. But I am not sure - you are the expert ;) So if a broadcast is used, no Layout access is needed. But if the layouts have to be notified directly, you are right and we might need a list

Re: [dev] about devpartner

2007-07-16 Thread Malte Timmermann
, On 07/16/07 08:31: Malte Timmermann wrote: Should work. I didn't test latest devpartner suites, only boundschecker for C++. Make sure your version supports native/unmanaged code. For MLK detection, make sure to disable OOo memory manager. See http://tools.openoffice.org/files/documents

[dev] OOo Accessibility on WIndows via IAccessible2

2007-07-05 Thread Malte Timmermann
Hi, I am not sure if all of you are aware of IAccessible2 (IA2, http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/Accessibility/IAccessible2 ), and the influence that it will have on Assistive Technology (AT) on Windows. Right now, OOo is not well accessible (with screen readers) on Windows. OOo itself has a

Re: [dev] word bounding boxes in Impress?

2007-03-27 Thread Malte Timmermann
This information is only available for things rendered to the screen. There you can use the Uno Accessibility API (XAccessibleText for char glyphs) But I don't know if you can query XAccessibleText from XShape directly. See openoffice.org/access for details. Malte. Laurent Denoue wrote, On

Re: [dev] Finding automatic page breaks

2007-03-04 Thread Malte Timmermann
The soft page break thing is also needed for DAISY export. Therefor, after investigating into Accessibility related things in ODF, optionally exporting soft page breaks is now defined in ODF 1.1. See my OOo conference presentation

Re: [dev] Extending the binfilter Module

2007-02-07 Thread Malte Timmermann
Armin Le Grand wrote, On 02/07/07 11:40: Freeze means: Add all still missing and urgently necessary C++ dependencies methodically: Link without the standard modules and add missing code. Yes, this might take a while and is not easy but might have been done by one person

[dev] OOo Security Enhancements?

2007-02-07 Thread Malte Timmermann
Based on the article In-depth analysis of the viral threats with OpenOffice.org documents, published in Journal in Computer Virology, I had some discussions on how OOo security can be further improved. I have put some information here:

Re: [dev] OO.o / Win32 startup profiles ...

2006-11-02 Thread Malte Timmermann
I don't have any current numbers, sorry. A good profiler for Windows is Intel VTune, evals can be downloaded. Does the Novell build contain more optimizations than the standard build? Is it compiled/linked differently? Would you like to also measure the standard build on your machine? Thanks,

Re: [dev] OOo Digital Signatures

2006-10-19 Thread Malte Timmermann
You might be true about Apple (which is not in my personal focus - any volunteers?), but some GNOME stuff doesn't help for people using KDE or other things... Malte. Oliver Braun wrote, On 10/19/06 08:55: Hi Malte, Malte Timmermann wrote: On other platforms there is no global key store

Re: [dev] interested to contribute in openoffice.org

2006-07-31 Thread Malte Timmermann
Cool :) What's your main interest - core, components, helping on bug fixes? If your answer is writing a helpful component for OOo from scratch, I would suggest writing the Creative Commons component. http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=devmsgNo=17284 I think there is a lot of

[dev] Volunteer(s) for a Creative Commons component?

2006-07-13 Thread Malte Timmermann
on the specification and I can help out with hints for design and implementation. Best regards, Malte. -- Malte Timmermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems GmbH Technical Architect Software Engineering Nagelsweg 55 http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/malte 20097 Hamburg, Germany

Re: [dev] Volunteer(s) for a Creative Commons component?

2006-07-13 Thread Malte Timmermann
Laurent, thanks for offering mentoring on the OOo basics. That might convince people to start working on an OOo component, who otherwise feared the barrier of entrance :) Malte. Laurent Godard wrote, On 07/13/06 11:21: Hi Malte You are right, OOo build environment might not be an issue

Re: [dev] Creative Commons support in OpenOffice.org

2006-07-07 Thread Malte Timmermann
Nathan, I am also looking into this. My feeling is that it should be in the standard office installation, not an extension. Reason: If I attach a license to my document, I want that everybody is aware of that when opening the doc, not just people who have the extension. License must be

Re: [dev] Creative Commons support in OpenOffice.org

2006-07-07 Thread Malte Timmermann
I took a quick look into the MS solution: They simply place some text and links into the document, that's all. This, of course, can be done as a component, and people w/o that component will also see the license. Such a component shouldn't be to hard to implement - any volunteers? ;) Malte.

Re: [dev] Creative Commons support in OpenOffice.org

2006-07-07 Thread Malte Timmermann
at the custom document properties and see that they also embed the information re: derivatives, commercial use, etc. NRY Malte Timmermann wrote: I took a quick look into the MS solution: They simply place some text and links into the document, that's all. This, of course, can be done

Re: [dev] PKCS#11 support on Openoffice

2006-04-26 Thread Malte Timmermann
Problem within OOo is that OOo currently only supports one security environment. As Jochen said, that should change soon. If you want to see if your implementation will (probably) work with OOo, you can use some of our test tools: xmlsecurity/tools/demo = signdemo and verifydemo There you can

Re: [dev] Implementing Document Restrictions in Star Office and Open Office

2006-04-19 Thread Malte Timmermann
through After talking with Malte Timmermann from Sun, he mentioned I might want to bring my ideas to this group. Is this the correct group for this idea? Attached are two OOo files on how we can use both symmetric and asymmetric encryption--WITHOUT using a Rights Management or Licensing

Re: [dev] warnings01: Windows C4355 'this' : used in base member initializer list

2006-03-07 Thread Malte Timmermann
I don't understand the not look too safe example: Class B will never be able to call a virtual method which is implemented in C. Not within the CTOR. And when talking about Dialogs: Moving member initialization with 'this' to the body is not easily done. You must change all Window members to

[dev] New OOo mailing list for Accessibility

2005-11-17 Thread Malte Timmermann
Hi, I have introduced a new mailing list for Accessibility on OpenOffice.org: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I wanted to have [EMAIL PROTECTED] (without ui.), but was told that new mailing lists have to be assigned to a project :( If you want some details about me and the list, you might have a look into

[dev] [Fwd: Do we need an OOo Accessibility mailing list?]

2005-11-14 Thread Malte Timmermann
wanting card-key access to a particular building...). If address length is an issue, 'a11y' is becomming a common abbreviation, like 'i18n' is for 'internatinalization'. So another choice would be [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Regards, Peter Korn Accessibility Architect, Sun Microsystems, Inc. Malte

Re: [dev] proposal: rtl::LeakGuard

2005-11-09 Thread Malte Timmermann
We should talk about the LeakGuard when consolidating the debug macros, as Frank suggested. Please don't introduce before. I also suggest to have a macro for it, which simply expands to nothing in product builds. If we do anything in this direction, I think it shouldn't be only leak detection,

Re: [dev] proposal: rtl::LeakGuard

2005-11-08 Thread Malte Timmermann
I like leak detection, but I think inheritance is not so useful here, because you can't simply add leak detection to a class 'on demand', without compiling all following modules. We already have some leak detection in tools/debug.hxx: DBG_CTOR and DBG_DTOR. Together with DBG_CHECKTHIS, you can

Re: [dev] OOo Performance Activities

2005-11-04 Thread Malte Timmermann
was started... Malte. Caolan McNamara wrote: On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 19:12 +0100, Malte Timmermann wrote: http://tools.openoffice.org/performance/performance-activities-overview.html If I missed something, please let me know and I will update the document. I have some prelink data and custom

Re: [dev] warnings01: -Wnon-virtual-dtor

2005-11-03 Thread Malte Timmermann
Also +1 for switching this warning off from within idlc-generated headers only Malte. Tino Rachui - Sun Germany - Development - Software Engineer wrote: Stephan Bergmann wrote: Thus, we can either switch off -Wnon-virtual-dtor globally, or switch off *all* warnings from within

[dev] OOo Performance Activities

2005-11-03 Thread Malte Timmermann
might be finished soon. Or perhaps someone identifies something that's not on the list, where he would like to work on? Best regards, Malte. Malte Timmermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems GmbH Technical Architect

Re: [dev] non-xml files in 2.0 format?

2005-07-08 Thread Malte Timmermann
See them as redundant information. Metafile for displaying content of OLE objects, without having to launch the needed application, which might not be available on your system. This is a general mechanism, which doesn't make any differene between known and unknown document formats. You

Re: [dev] detecting unused code

2005-07-07 Thread Malte Timmermann
Coalan, output of your tool looks nice, think I should have a look at that for some code clean ups I want to do :) Thanks, Malte. Caolan McNamara wrote: I updated my callcatcher tool (http://www.skynet.ie/~caolan/pub/callcatcher/callcatcher-1.0.1.tar.gz) to be easier to use. It attempts to