Re: Documentation for writing addins

2012-10-19 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
What language will you use? On 10/19/2012 09:00 AM, Christof Donat wrote: Hi, I am trying to write an addin for AOO writer. Thank google I found a fiew examples for additional calc functions and a bit of interface documentations so I was able to more or less guess how the code for my writer

Re: Apache OO General Questions

2012-10-14 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 10/14/2012 06:08 AM, Eike Rathke wrote: Hi Pedro, On Saturday, 2012-10-13 18:07:24 -0700, Pedro Giffuni wrote: This said, the latest versions of LO introduce bugs that I can't reproduce on AOO. AOO is very stable and we want to keep it that way. Thanks. The latest version of AOO also

Apache OO General Questions

2012-10-13 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
Couple of questions: (Q) it was stated to me at one time that integrating changes between AOO and LO would not be overly complicated (bad memory, but maybe it was Tom Davis referencing the fact that Symphony was kept in sync with OOo). Are any changes integrated between AOO and LO (in either

Re: Apache OO General Questions

2012-10-13 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 10/13/2012 07:07 PM, Rob Weir wrote: On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org wrote: Couple of questions: (Q) it was stated to me at one time that integrating changes between AOO and LO would not be overly complicated (bad memory, but maybe it was Tom

Re: Apache OO General Questions

2012-10-13 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 10/13/2012 07:20 PM, Regina Henschel wrote: Hi Andrew, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak schrieb: Couple of questions: (Q) it was stated to me at one time that integrating changes between AOO and LO would not be overly complicated (bad memory, but maybe it was Tom Davis referencing the fact

Re: Apache OO General Questions

2012-10-13 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 10/13/2012 09:07 PM, Pedro Giffuni wrote: Hi Andrew; - Original Message - ... Couple of questions: (Q) it was stated to me at one time that integrating changes between AOO and LO would not be overly complicated (bad memory, but maybe it was Tom Davis referencing the fact that

Re: bug in OpenOffice

2012-10-02 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 10/02/2012 05:46 AM, Yuri Myasoedov wrote: 02.10.2012, 05:05, Илья Родичев rodichevrus...@gmail.com: Hello, my english is bad, but i will try to tell you about a bug in OpenOffice which i found in russian - you must translate it: Документ, содержащий маркированный список, вложенный в

Re: [User Docs] What do we as a community want for user documentation or AOO

2012-09-22 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
Disclaimer: I am tired, I don't feel well, and I did not follow the precursors in detail, so this is the tired faulty memories of me. On 09/22/2012 05:17 PM, Rob Weir wrote: On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton orc...@apache.org wrote: I am not clear what the lazy consensus is

Re: [QA] Quality of bug reports and QA in bugzilla

2012-09-19 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 09/19/2012 08:34 AM, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 02:24:11PM +0200, Oliver Brinzing wrote: Hi Regina, Your own new issue should be UNCONFIRMED. Someone else should confirm your issue, if possible on a different operating system. i am pretty sure that i did not set

Re: Duplicate code in module binfilter [was: Re: svn commit: r1379349 - in /incubator/ooo/trunk/main: offapi/com/sun/star/sheet/ offapi/type_reference/ oox/inc/oox/xls/ oox/source/xls/ sc/inc/ sc/sour

2012-09-09 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 09/07/2012 01:46 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: On 04/09/2012 Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote: There is a misunderstanding. The module binfilter contains the needed code to import/export legacy binary StarOffice file format in order to remove this code from the main code base. Module binflter is

Re: [PERSONAL] My absence

2012-09-07 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 09/07/2012 07:40 AM, Donald Harbison wrote: Thanks everybody! Wonderful to feel the love. Kit is doing great and is expected to have a full recovery. It will just take time. She is very impatient, so that is now becoming my biggest challenge, if you know what I mean. :) I know EXACTLY what

Re: Duplicate code in module binfilter [was: Re: svn commit: r1379349 - in /incubator/ooo/trunk/main: offapi/com/sun/star/sheet/ offapi/type_reference/ oox/inc/oox/xls/ oox/source/xls/ sc/inc/ sc/sour

2012-09-06 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 09/06/2012 12:41 AM, Juergen Schmidt wrote: So that is what we will do with the older OOo file formats? I just want to be clear that I need to find these files ands then manually convert all of them before support is dropped. I don't like writing my own extractors from scratch, but I

Re: [PERSONAL] My absence

2012-09-06 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
Best wishes and a speedy recovery... -- Andrew Pitonyak My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php

Re: Duplicate code in module binfilter [was: Re: svn commit: r1379349 - in /incubator/ooo/trunk/main: offapi/com/sun/star/sheet/ offapi/type_reference/ oox/inc/oox/xls/ oox/source/xls/ sc/inc/ sc/sour

2012-09-05 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 09/04/2012 03:49 AM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: On 9/4/12 3:42 AM, Lei Wang wrote: Hi, So we have plan to remove import/export code from application modules(sw,sc,sd...) and implement import/export function in binfilter. Is there any document about this feature? What's the current status ? no,

Stale links...

2012-09-03 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
I was looking here: http://www.openoffice.org/support/index.html The last link on the page is as follows: OpenOffice.org Macros Explained (Publisher's site) Introduction to macro programming in OpenOffice.org. 300 pages. August 2004, ISBN 1-930919-51-4. The publisher is out of books and I

Re: Stale links...

2012-09-03 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 09/03/2012 02:16 AM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: I was looking here: http://www.openoffice.org/support/index.html The last link on the page is as follows: OpenOffice.org Macros Explained (Publisher's site) Introduction to macro programming in OpenOffice.org. 300 pages. August 2004

Re: Stale links...

2012-09-03 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 09/03/2012 03:00 AM, Dave Barton wrote: Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: On 09/03/2012 02:16 AM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: I was looking here: http://www.openoffice.org/support/index.html The last link on the page is as follows: OpenOffice.org Macros Explained (Publisher's site

Re: Stale links...

2012-09-03 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 09/03/2012 09:32 AM, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: On 3 September 2012 02:16, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org wrote: I was looking here: http://www.openoffice.org/support/index.html Do we continue using that very very old support page? I had replaced it with http://suppport.ooo

Re: [QA][Request]Apply for the membership of AOO QA and edit permission in Bugzilla.

2012-08-31 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
In the original OOo, I had the role to confirm bugs and such, did those roles transfer to the Apache system? -- Andrew Pitonyak My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php

Re: A direct answer to a direct question, please

2012-08-31 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 08/31/2012 12:39 AM, Paul Myers wrote: I have not been able to locate a direct answer to the following direct question on any of your webpages or fora sites: How comparable is the OpenOffice variant of VBA to the original version developed by Microsoft for its Office components

Re: Is this a UNO API bug?

2012-08-23 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
No. and the Author fields that are set to the current values. - The FileName fields are updated with the current name of the file. - The DocInfo.XXX fields are updated with the current document info of the document. All other fields ignore calls to update(). 2012/8/23 Andrew Douglas Pitonyak

Re: Is this a UNO API bug?

2012-08-22 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
) { e.printStackTrace(); } 2012/8/22 Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org On 08/21/2012 09:08 PM, dongjun zong wrote: Andrew, I think you are right, I add a sleep time after insert page number field before getText, the page number can get correct. But I think it's a bug for page

Re: Is this a UNO API bug?

2012-08-21 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
Did you successfully insert the text field? If yes, then after you insert a text field, it has probably not yet refreshed its value. Off hand, I don't remember exactly what you need to refresh first I would need to look it up and I really need to run but figured it might help you a bit

Re: Is this a UNO API bug?

2012-08-21 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
refresh (probably using a dispatch). On 08/21/2012 02:30 AM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: Did you successfully insert the text field? If yes, then after you insert a text field, it has probably not yet refreshed its value. Off hand, I don't remember exactly what you need to refresh first I

Re: Is this a UNO API bug?

2012-08-21 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
before it returns. On 08/21/2012 03:23 AM, dongjun zong wrote: The strange thing is this API can works fine for doc sample file. I guess this is a bug. 2012/8/21 Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org OK, I had to look... For a text field, see if you can call update. This may not work

Re: Is this a UNO API bug?

2012-08-21 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
. Oliver, I have tired again, on my computer, if don't add sleep time, it has problem for exist more than 2 page sample fie. You can try this sample, add a page nubmer at end of this document. pls get this sample from attachement. 2012/8/21 Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org mailto:and

Re: [HELP]Where could get the information about parameter Properties values in method XStorable.storeAsURL

2012-08-15 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 08/16/2012 01:40 AM, dongjun zong wrote: Hi, I am tring to use the method storeAsURL of interface XStorable void storeAsURL( [in] string aURL, sequence com::sun::star::beans::PropertyValue aArgs) What's second parameter valid values? I have searched in Wiki, and get below

Re: Linux install instructions

2012-08-14 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 08/14/2012 11:42 AM, Andre Fischer wrote: On 14.08.2012 15:05, Rob Weir wrote: I just noticed this new article. It seems to have a complete description, including uninstalling LO and blocking future updates:

Re: AOO-LibreOffice comparison?

2012-07-18 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
Peter, if you do create a feature comparison, I would be interested in seeing what you create. I use both, and to some extent it is related to a particular feature that I need at the moment, or a bug that I want to avoid at the moment. As an example, on one computer at an off-site location,

Unexpected behavior while writing Calc Functions

2012-07-15 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
I wrote a simple function Function mydate As Date mydate = CDate(100) End Function I then called this function from a Calc document =myDate() Finally, I directly accessed the cells with the dates from a macro similar to the following code: Print

Re: Suggestion - file format

2012-07-12 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 07/12/2012 09:41 AM, Rob Weir wrote: On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 2:30 AM, Shenfeng Liu liush...@gmail.com wrote: Considering this... Then I agree with Dennis that we should consult users for ODF format. But my concern is that it will look like Apache OpenOffice gives the same weight of support

Re: Suggestion - file format

2012-07-11 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
I agree with Dennis, if there is already an association, ask. I frequently use computers with more than one application that uses ODF file formats as the default format. The problem, of course, is how to choose which to associate. For example, off hand, the first thought is that you have an

Re: Labels

2012-07-06 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
I believe that your templates can be bundled into an extension (or similar) and distributed from an extension web site. http://extensions.openoffice.org/ On 07/06/2012 03:38 AM, Sybil Snyders wrote: Good day Hope you are well. We would like to get in contact with you to see how we can

Re: Labels

2012-07-06 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 07/06/2012 05:49 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: On 07/06/2012 03:38 AM, Sybil Snyders wrote: We would like to get in contact with you to see how we can work together on the label printing functionality of your software. We have our own templates, which we like

Re: [Call-for-​Review] one fix for odt saving performance improvement

2012-06-22 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 06/21/2012 01:00 AM, li zhang wrote: hi, all I'm zhang li from China. My main focus is performance(loading, saving, asynchronous loading, etc). I have one fix need for review. It is about odt saving. Please check the below for details, thanks!

Re: Java

2012-06-19 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 06/19/2012 12:29 PM, Maya Cain wrote: I had an older copy of OpenOffice which ran very well but then I found there was a newer version and so I updated and now my database will not work. I get a message saying that the Java environment has changed. The text function and the spreadsheets

Re: The reason I removed the program called Open Office 3.4

2012-06-05 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
the program called Open Office 3.4 Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: On 06/04/2012 11:07 AM, Phillip Rhodes wrote: On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Kay Schenkkay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: . In no circumstance should AOO establish itself as a default for any file type. I'd say In no circumstance should AOO

Re: The reason I removed the program called Open Office 3.4

2012-06-04 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 06/03/2012 05:34 PM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: Three immediate subjects for such an FAQ come to mind: 1) The file associations just discussed 2) When Java is needed for Windows it should be 32bit and version 1.6 I stressed over this one and simply installed multiple versions of Java to see

Re: The reason I removed the program called Open Office 3.4

2012-06-04 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 06/04/2012 11:07 AM, Phillip Rhodes wrote: On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Kay Schenkkay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: . In no circumstance should AOO establish itself as a default for any file type. I'd say In no circumstance should AOO establish itself as a default for any file type which

Re: The reason I removed the program called Open Office 3.4

2012-06-03 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 06/01/2012 09:48 PM, Felix Brown wrote: The reason I removed the program called Open Office 3.4 was: Today the automatic update to 3.4 happened. Today I opened a WordPad file, (Which I open often; It's my list of birthdays.); And to my surprise, Your piece of junk software had hijacked all

Re: [AUTOSAVE] Where is

2012-05-28 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 05/27/2012 12:53 AM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: On 05/25/2012 11:59 PM, Kayo Hamid wrote: Hello, i'm having problems with autosave and want to see around the code, where is the implementation? ooo/trunk/main/framework/qa/complex/framework/autosave ? Thanks, Kayo Hamid. What problem

Re: Fwd: [Dev] Redundant information in ODF document

2012-05-27 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
I did not bother to check the spec, but I will hazard a guess that the problem is that the information is in the style itself. If the information is in the style, then if it is not persisted then it will be lost. Are you looking at a style that has a parent style? I expect that if I create

Re: [AUTOSAVE] Where is

2012-05-26 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 05/25/2012 11:59 PM, Kayo Hamid wrote: Hello, i'm having problems with autosave and want to see around the code, where is the implementation? ooo/trunk/main/framework/qa/complex/framework/autosave ? Thanks, Kayo Hamid. What problem are you chasing? Is it a problem with disappearing

Re: Linux install issues

2012-05-19 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 05/19/2012 01:00 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: Hi all-- It seems we are running into a number of very difficult problems with Linux installs, the latest just e-mailed to this list this morning, due to the way some vendors have installed LO. see: http://markmail.org/message/qz72ouzjvcm7uyfn I'd

Re: Linux install issues

2012-05-19 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 05/19/2012 04:52 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Rory O'Farrellofarr...@iol.ie wrote: On Sat, 19 May 2012 10:00:39 -0700 Kay Schenkkay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all-- OK, thanks. I will wait until the world turns :) before editing the install guide.

Re: HELP NEEDED

2012-05-14 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 05/14/2012 09:34 AM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: On Mon, 14 May 2012 11:35:37 +0200 (CEST) kod...@libero.itkod...@libero.it wrote: Hello, I'm sorry if I'm writing to the wrong email adres but i can't find the support email adress. i need help! i saved last night an odt file 28 apges long

Re: [WWW] AOOo french website

2012-05-12 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 05/12/2012 01:22 AM, eric b wrote: LibreOffice does not respect Apache OpenOffice, Surely I have seen some of this, but not from the majority. My expectation is that those that feel the strongest and are the most vocal likely split with LO. As such, I also expect some of those people to

Re: A wiki about how to support a VBA API

2012-05-09 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 05/07/2012 10:08 PM, TJ Frazier wrote: On 5/7/2012 20:02, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: I owe you one, for the help your (on-line) book provided, when I was writing the temporary GUI for the new encoding feature: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/User:TJFrazier/Encryption I

Re: A wiki about how to support a VBA API

2012-05-07 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
If your changes show properly in the Preview mode, then they will be correctly saved when you Save. Sometimes the ATS delivers stale pages, so you might see the original page, unchanged, after the Save. The workaround is described in Moving Day:

Re: A wiki about how to support a VBA API

2012-05-05 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 05/02/2012 04:29 AM, Peng Chen wrote: Hi All, I post a wiki about how to support a VBA API in OpenOffice, http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/How_to_support_a_VBA_API_in_OpenOffice Any feedback will be appreciated, thanks. Now that I know what the page describes (thanks

Re: A wiki about how to support a VBA API

2012-05-03 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
. 2012/5/3 Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org mailto:and...@pitonyak.org On 05/02/2012 04:29 AM, Peng Chen wrote: Hi All, I post a wiki about how to support a VBA API in OpenOffice, http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki

Re: A wiki about how to support a VBA API

2012-05-02 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 05/02/2012 04:29 AM, Peng Chen wrote: Hi All, I post a wiki about how to support a VBA API in OpenOffice, http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/How_to_support_a_VBA_API_in_OpenOffice Any feedback will be appreciated, thanks. I am almost embarrassed to say this, but after

Re: Clarifying facts

2012-03-13 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
If YOU (the reader) disagree with a specific statement in the original post (shown below if you really need to see it), please be specific about which statement and how you would fix the statement. As an example, some clarification was provided that left me less confused with respect to the

Re: Calling all volunteers: It is time to test

2012-03-01 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
Can you give me some clarification on exactly what I should test? I just downloaded and installed OOo_3.4.0_Linux_x86-64_install-rpm_en-US.tar.gz and it seems to NOT have the English language. It does, however, seem to have classic French. I also do not see the en-US language pack that I can

Re: oooforum.org

2011-11-22 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 11/20/2011 04:33 AM, Peter Junge wrote: Hi, is there any admin of oooforum.org around here? It's getting spamed with really disgusting content on the front page. Peter The OOoForum is fully managed to Ed Buck. He has two low level administrators of which I am one. Ed appears to have

Re: working on a OpenOffice roadmap

2011-10-21 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 10/20/2011 05:02 AM, Martin Hollmichel wrote: * A call to LibreOffice contributors also to contribute their changes to Apache as the ASF is the long desired independent foundation for OpenOffice.org. On this basis a collaboration among the OpenOffice.org Apache Project and TDF can be

Re: [Proposal] Shutting down legacy OOo mailing lists

2011-10-21 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 10/20/2011 12:20 PM, Rob Weir wrote: On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Dave Fisherdave2w...@comcast.net wrote: That may not be possible. It depends on how Oracle understands the ToU for the legacy lists and relevant data protection laws. Corporations tend to be conservative and risk-averse,

Re: working on a OpenOffice roadmap

2011-10-21 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 10/21/2011 10:26 PM, Pedro Giffuni wrote: --- On Fri, 10/21/11, Rob Weirrobw...@apache.org wrote: On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org wrote: On 10/20/2011 05:02 AM, Martin Hollmichel wrote: * A call to LibreOffice contributors also to contribute

Re: [OT] What is needed for Support Forums to be fully integrated into the Apache OpenOffice.org project

2011-09-07 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 09/07/2011 05:39 PM, eric b wrote: Hi ** , Le 7 sept. 11 à 22:03, Hagar Delest a écrit : Le mar. 06 sept. 2011 17:36:10 CEST, eric b eric.bachardnos...@free.fr a écrit : No, Hagar introduced his pseudo, not himself. I wonder how we can trust people we don't know the identity ?

Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-06 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 09/04/2011 02:23 PM, Rob Weir wrote: On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Terry Ellisonte...@ellisons.org.uk wrote: On 04/09/11 18:01, Rob Weir wrote: On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Terry Ellisonte...@ellisons.org.uk wrote: On 04/09/11 17:22, Simon Phipps wrote: If you do not own the