Re: [Libreoffice] making binfilter aka StarOffice FileFormat read-only

2011-01-17 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Regina, On Fri, 2011-01-14 at 23:23 +0100, Regina Henschel wrote: > I use the German LibO RC3 on WinXP and the filters are not there. Riight - we fixed this bug; having said that Pierre's work should make the binfilter tolerably small, instead of another handful of megabytes that the

Re: [Libreoffice] making binfilter aka StarOffice FileFormat read-only

2011-01-14 Thread Tor Lillqvist
> there is something wrong actually. Removing *Export*-filter is > reasonable, but now in LibO RC3 I cannot *read* my SO5 files. That is caused by the build having been done without --enable-binfilter, I think. Not on purpose, and not related to this "making binfilter formats read-only" discuss

Re: [Libreoffice] making binfilter aka StarOffice FileFormat read-only

2011-01-14 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi Pierre-André, Pierre-André Jacquod schrieb: Hi, On 01/14/2011 07:33 PM, Regina Henschel wrote: Hi all, there is something wrong actually. Removing *Export*-filter is reasonable, but now in LibO RC3 I cannot *read* my SO5 files. Kind regards Regina Up to now, nothing has been committed. On

Re: [Libreoffice] making binfilter aka StarOffice FileFormat read-only

2011-01-14 Thread Pierre-André Jacquod
Hi, On 01/14/2011 07:33 PM, Regina Henschel wrote: > Hi all, > > there is something wrong actually. Removing *Export*-filter is > reasonable, but now in LibO RC3 I cannot *read* my SO5 files. > > Kind regards > Regina Up to now, nothing has been committed. On trunk master, all is OK, I just teste

Re: [Libreoffice] making binfilter aka StarOffice FileFormat read-only

2011-01-14 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi all, there is something wrong actually. Removing *Export*-filter is reasonable, but now in LibO RC3 I cannot *read* my SO5 files. Kind regards Regina Pierre-André Jacquod schrieb: Hello, these days, I have tried (and not really with full success) to understand how binfilter works... My

Re: [Libreoffice] making binfilter aka StarOffice FileFormat read-only

2011-01-13 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Pierre, On Sat, 2011-01-08 at 00:15 +0100, Pierre-André Jacquod wrote: > >> The filter, despite write is not usable (no export). ... > >> So ideally could it be: not export, READONLY and pop-up ?? :- / > > I'd still prefer not to set the read-only flag if possible, it is a > > After playing a b

Re: [Libreoffice] making binfilter aka StarOffice FileFormat read-only

2011-01-08 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Michael Meeks wrote: > Anyhow - just wondering how this is progressing ? :-) and looking > forward to having it integrated. I haven't checked details, but it seems this might overlap with the work done (and possibly still being done) in the OOo trunk, see http://www.openoffice.org/issues/sho

Re: [Libreoffice] making binfilter aka StarOffice FileFormat read-only

2011-01-08 Thread Pierre-André Jacquod
Hi Jan / Hi Michael, some more testing and code reading. Here some answers. [I was writing this mail while testing, mostly written before Michael's mail. Hence this will answers both mails. ] > This is a good point - as you say, I agree we can omit the creation of > the lock file. It would be go

Re: [Libreoffice] making binfilter aka StarOffice FileFormat read-only

2011-01-07 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Pierre, This looks like a really useful start :-) On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 13:27 +0100, Jan Holesovsky wrote: > > Second issue I see: (I just though of it right now, did not yet test / > > investigate): with opening in read/write and without EXPORT filter, what > > happens with the auto-s

Re: [Libreoffice] making binfilter aka StarOffice FileFormat read-only

2011-01-03 Thread Jan Holesovsky
Hi Pierre-Andre, On 2010-12-30 at 17:30 +0100, Pierre-André Jacquod wrote: > Thus, there is a major difference: With READONLY, no lock-file is > generated when the file is openend. With filter without the EXPORT, the > lock-file is still generated This comes during the load process, > where t

Re: [Libreoffice] making binfilter aka StarOffice FileFormat read-only

2010-12-30 Thread Pierre-André Jacquod
Hi, >> in binfilter as read-only filters (using as filter flag >> SFX_FILTER_OPENREADONLY defined as 0x0001L) This will make the >> opening read-only. By this way, this is not possible any more to save > IIRC the resolution was a bit different ;-) you are right:-) > This way the user will

Re: [Libreoffice] making binfilter aka StarOffice FileFormat read-only

2010-12-29 Thread Jan Holesovsky
Hi Pierre-Andre, On 2010-12-27 at 21:31 +0100, Pierre-André Jacquod wrote: > An easy (and clean) possibility would be to change the filters defined > in binfilter as read-only filters (using as filter flag > SFX_FILTER_OPENREADONLY defined as 0x0001L) This will make the > opening read-only. B

[Libreoffice] making binfilter aka StarOffice FileFormat read-only

2010-12-27 Thread Pierre-André Jacquod
Hello, these days, I have tried (and not really with full success) to understand how binfilter works... My goal: since it is an old legacy format, make StarOffice formats read-only, and clean binfilter component of all code used for writing files. Reason: with read-only, you will still be able to