Re: Usage of ActiveX in Libre Office

On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 11:49 AM, wrote: > Hi, > > I did today a quick test on a Windows 7 (32Bit) computer. > > AOO 4.1.1 was de-installed completely first and I verified that COM and OLE > didn't worked anymore. > After that LOO 5.2.5.1 was installed with deactivated

Re: Usage of ActiveX in Libre Office

Hi, I did today a quick test on a Windows 7 (32Bit) computer. AOO 4.1.1 was de-installed completely first and I verified that COM and OLE didn't worked anymore. After that LOO 5.2.5.1 was installed with deactivated ActiveX support. Both COM and OLE are working. Automation through our ERP is

Re: Usage of ActiveX in Libre Office

I believe it's just the ActiveX plugin which was designed to view LibreOffice documents through IE. Unfortunately, we did not have a test case for other COM automation to confirm if that's the case. On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 11:47 AM, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > I think what he

Re: Usage of ActiveX in Libre Office

I think what he meant is that rewriting their ERP to another API to drive LibreOffice would be quite some work for them, and not gonna happen except if forced kicking and screaming. In principle, I like to support these kinds of universal (in this case "universal on a platform") APIs; are we

Re: Usage of ActiveX in Libre Office

To test most* of what I proposed to remove: During Install disable the ActiveX control. (Ideally with a fresh install) AFAICT OLE is actually also separate (but if it's not we don't want to break that). It works fine on Linux (and I don't have a copy of MS Office to test with on Windows).

Re: Usage of ActiveX in Libre Office

Hi, Am 27.01.2017 um 18:03 schrieb Bryan Quigley: Looking back over my previous attempt, I think you might not be affected. (In any case COM/ATL support would not be dropped) The other problem was not having good test cases for making changes to the code. I do note in my original release

Re: Usage of ActiveX in Libre Office

libreoffice@lists.freedesktop.org, libroffice@artavi.de Subject: Re: Usage of ActiveX in Libre Office I don't believe it would be affected, but it would need to be tested to be sure. Thanks, Bryan On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 3:43 PM, sos <s...@pmg.be> wrote: > Bryan, > Please clarify, wi

Re: Usage of ActiveX in Libre Office

It would be much nicer to have a Pascal bridge rather than to support the proprietary ActiveX protocol. Some references are on the Freepascal wiki http://wiki.freepascal.org/Office_Automation 2017-01-23 15:42 GMT+01:00 : > We are recently switched from AOO to LO. In the

Re: Usage of ActiveX in Libre Office

Hi. On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 11:07 AM, wrote: > Hi, > Am 25.01.2017 um 20:43 schrieb Bryan Quigley: >> >> Welcome and thanks for responding to notice! >> >> You're the first person (AFAICT) who has written in response to the >> deprecation notice. My original

Re: Usage of ActiveX in Libre Office

...@canonical.com> > Date: 25/01/2017 20:43 (GMT+01:00) > To: libreoffice@lists.freedesktop.org, libroffice@artavi.de > Subject: re: Usage of ActiveX in Libre Office > > Welcome and thanks for responding to notice! > > You're the first person (AFAICT) who has written in response t

Re: Usage of ActiveX in Libre Office

Hi, Am 25.01.2017 um 21:31 schrieb Kaganski Mike: Just wanted to mention two (now discontinued) projects that aimed to provide alternative ActiveX MS Office-compatible APIs for OpenOffice.org: AutomateIT! (https://sourceforge.net/projects/automateit/) and UniOffice

Re: Usage of ActiveX in Libre Office

Hi, Am 25.01.2017 um 20:43 schrieb Bryan Quigley: Welcome and thanks for responding to notice! You're the first person (AFAICT) who has written in response to the deprecation notice. My original intention was to remove it from the 5.2 release if we got no responses to that notice (that

re: Usage of ActiveX in Libre Office

--From: Bryan Quigley <bryan.quig...@canonical.com> Date: 25/01/2017 20:43 (GMT+01:00) To: libreoffice@lists.freedesktop.org, libroffice@artavi.de Subject: re: Usage of ActiveX in Libre Office Welcome and thanks for responding to notice! You're the first person (AFAICT)

Re: Usage of ActiveX in Libre Office

Hello, On 1/23/2017 5:42 PM, libroffice@artavi.de wrote: We are recently switched from AOO to LO. In the release notes a possible removal of ActiveX is announced. You are asking for information about the use case so here we are: We are using in our company

re: Usage of ActiveX in Libre Office

Welcome and thanks for responding to notice! You're the first person (AFAICT) who has written in response to the deprecation notice. My original intention was to remove it from the 5.2 release if we got no responses to that notice (that obviously hasn't happened). At this point the soonest

Usage of ActiveX in Libre Office

We are recently switched from AOO to LO. In the release notes a possible removal of ActiveX is announced. You are asking for information about the use case so here we are: We are using in our company a selfmade ERP system which is grown for more than 15 years now. For historical reasons the