Re: [libreoffice-users] gettextfields

2013-05-09 Thread mcmurchy1917-libreoffice
Hi Vieri The form you've created contains a set of controls of which one or more of them are of the Text box variety. You may also have other controls on the form such as a Check Box, Label or Push Button these latter controls don't have the ability to hold text or edit text so don't have

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: re. Italics and bold in BASE

2013-05-09 Thread Kieran Peckett
However, MS Access has formatting support - so why not LibO Base? If there truly is no support for this, then this could be filed as an enhancement on FDO (our bug tracker). On 8 May 2013 20:31, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi :) Only in Forms and Reports. Not in the data (Tables)

[libreoffice-users] Draw

2013-05-09 Thread Jonathan Han
Hello, I checked on the website and tried to have this question solved, but could not find an answer. Does LibreOffice Draw have line smoothing, like that in Adobe Photoshop? I look forward to hearing back. Thanks. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org

Re: [libreoffice-users] Draw

2013-05-09 Thread Jean-Francois Nifenecker
Le 09/05/2013 05:43, Jonathan Han a écrit : Hello, I checked on the website and tried to have this question solved, but could not find an answer. Does LibreOffice Draw have line smoothing, like that in Adobe Photoshop? You're comparing apples and oranges. Draw is a *drawing* tool ;) while

Re: [libreoffice-users] gettextfields

2013-05-09 Thread Vieri
--- On Thu, 5/9/13, mcmurchy1917-libreoff...@yahoo.co.uk mcmurchy1917-libreoff...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi Vieri The form you've created contains a set of controls of which one or more of them are of the Text box variety. You may also have other controls on the form such as a Check

[libreoffice-users] java macro

2013-05-09 Thread Vieri
Hi, I'm new to making Java macros. I compiled my Java class, created the parcel-descriptor.xml file and placed the .xml, .jar and .class files within the following folders I also created: C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\LibreOffice\4\user\Scripts\java\MACRO1 C:\Program Files\LibreOffice

Re: [libreoffice-users] gettextfields

2013-05-09 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2013/5/8 Vieri rentor...@yahoo.com: --- On Tue, 5/7/13, Vieri rentor...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Mon, 5/6/13, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org wrote: On 05/06/2013 05:21 AM, Vieri wrote: Hi, I have an odt writer document with 2 input text fields (added with the form

Re: [libreoffice-users] java macro

2013-05-09 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Errr, now that you have learned about programming in a general way and looking to consolidate details would it be a good time to learn something more solid?  C++ or Python perhaps?  Oracle seem to be having a lot of trouble writing code that doesn't get compromised really fast.  So,

Re: [libreoffice-users] java macro

2013-05-09 Thread William Drago
Tom Vieri, Let's not get the Java browser plugin and the Java programming language confused... Java is an excellent programming language and in no way can be considered any less solid than C++. In fact, in many ways it is more secure and more reliable than code written in C++. What

Re: [libreoffice-users] java macro

2013-05-09 Thread Vieri
Hi Tom, I just need to get the job done. Right now, I can use whatever language, just as long as it's supported within LO. The problem with LO and OOo is that it apparently supports X programming language (such as Java) but there's barely enough documentation on how to bind it to the

Re: [libreoffice-users] java macro

2013-05-09 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi Vieri, Vieri schrieb: Hi, I'm new to making Java macros. I compiled my Java class, created the parcel-descriptor.xml file and placed the .xml, .jar and .class files within the following folders I also created: C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\LibreOffice\4\user\Scripts\java\MACRO1

[libreoffice-users] [4.0.3.3 non fixed bug] Link with a space Pdf export error (%20 characters - space ones - exported as %2520 ones)

2013-05-09 Thread Carlo Strata
Hi Everyone and sorry for my long silence! I have not read the mailing list for a long, but I am always here to use, test, update and spread LibreOffice! ;-) Since 4.x versions - but maybe since before: 1. if you create a new writer document and copy in it a with-space-link like this:

Re: [libreoffice-users] [4.0.3.3 non fixed bug] Link with a space Pdf export error (%20 characters - space ones - exported as %2520 ones)

2013-05-09 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) %25 is the code for a % symbol so the 'wrong' link is not really wrong after all.  It's just a bit odd and unnecessary.  In the 'wrong' link replace all the %25s with % so that %2520 becomes %20 and then the apparently 'wrong' link looks right.  It's a good reason for avoiding spaces and

Re: [libreoffice-users] java macro

2013-05-09 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Regina know a lot more about all this so hopefully her answer will fix it.  There are a couple of places to get written documentation but probably not as many as we would like.  This list is often quite a good place to get single issue answers but for a broader perspective Chapter 13 of

Re: [libreoffice-users] java macro

2013-05-09 Thread Vieri
--- On Thu, 5/9/13, Regina Henschel rb.hensc...@t-online.de wrote: Hi Vieri, Vieri schrieb: Hi, I'm new to making Java macros. I compiled my Java class, created the parcel-descriptor.xml file and placed the .xml, .jar and .class files within the following folders I also created:

[libreoffice-users] re. Draw

2013-05-09 Thread anne-ology
I'm sure someone on this list can answer your questions. BTW - you can subscribe to this list, by sending a message to users+subscr...@global.libreoffice.orgusers%2bunsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Hello, I checked on the website and tried to have this question solved, but

Re: [libreoffice-users] re. Draw

2013-05-09 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Sorry that address looks like it got a bit mangled.  this one might too so i have tried to send it plain text users+subscr...@global.libreoffice.org Usually the users+ bit at the beginning gets missed off only everything after the + turning blue and getting underlined.  however the

[libreoffice-users] Re: Freezing a cell in Calc permanently

2013-05-09 Thread david scollon
On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 20:47 -0400, The Wolfkin wrote: When you freeze a row or column in Calc http://help.libreoffice.org/Calc/Freezing_Rows_or_Columns_as_Headers is there a way to save that as a permanent state? I've tried freezing and after a few minutes I managed to get it to

Re: [libreoffice-users] java macro

2013-05-09 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi Vieri, Vieri schrieb: I didn't need to use BeanShell. I edited the parcel descriptor xml file directly. I finally found out why I wasn't seeing the macro (or at least I think so). I needed to create my class within default package (I'm using NetBeans IDE). I'm able to launch my Java

Re: [libreoffice-users] Copy / Paste - Include Recorded Changes?

2013-05-09 Thread Joel Madero
On 05/08/2013 07:27 PM, Brian Barker wrote: At 18:56 08/05/2013 -0700, Joel Madero wrote: On 05/08/2013 07:05 PM, Joel Madero wrote: Is there a way for me to copy a bunch of stuff that has recorded changes from one document and paste to another document including the changes? A regular copy

Re: [libreoffice-users] re. Draw

2013-05-09 Thread anne-ology
HOW does this internet mess things up so completely at times; when I plopped it into the message, it was only 1 in text ... oh where, oh where, did the internet bytes pick up those stray bits ;-) yikes, the mouse is attacking again ... and byte-ing ;-)

Re: [libreoffice-users] Draw

2013-05-09 Thread Kracked_P_P---webmaster
On 05/09/2013 03:01 AM, Jean-Francois Nifenecker wrote: Le 09/05/2013 05:43, Jonathan Han a écrit : Hello, I checked on the website and tried to have this question solved, but could not find an answer. Does LibreOffice Draw have line smoothing, like that in Adobe Photoshop? You're

Re: [libreoffice-users] re. Draw

2013-05-09 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Can't you poke him back into his pad? Regards from Tom :)  From: anne-ology lagin...@gmail.com To: Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Thursday, 9 May 2013, 14:55 Subject: Re:

[libreoffice-users] GSOC = Google's Summer Of Code

2013-05-09 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Did anyone else miss that Google's Summer of Code is here again already!  Last year several projects were aimed at expanding LibreOffice's functionality.  I think one was something to do with importing Visio files?  Anyone any idea what is being put forwards this year?  Apparently

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: re. Italics and bold in BASE

2013-05-09 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) But does Access have all the formatting options available in Writer, or even in Word?  Base does.  It doesn't swap around what the Ctrl and Alt keys do either so you keep using the tools you are familiar with instead of going into some weird scary thing that keeps throwing curved balls. 

[libreoffice-users] Re: re. Italics and bold in BASE

2013-05-09 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 09/05/13 08:32, Kieran Peckett a écrit : Hi Kieran, However, MS Access has formatting support - so why not LibO Base? If there truly is no support for this, then this could be filed as an enhancement on FDO (our bug tracker). Probably because - LO Base only inherited what limited

Re: [libreoffice-users] re. Draw

2013-05-09 Thread anne-ology
actually, he died ;-( On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 9:40 AM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi :) Can't you poke him back into his pad? Regards from Tom :) From: anne-ology lagin...@gmail.com To: Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org

Re: [libreoffice-users] GSOC = Google's Summer Of Code

2013-05-09 Thread anne-ology
Is this it? - https://developers.google.com/open-source/soc/ On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 9:45 AM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi :) Did anyone else miss that Google's Summer of Code is here again already! Last year several projects were aimed at expanding LibreOffice's

Re: [libreoffice-users] Database problem

2013-05-09 Thread Paul D. Mirowsky
On 5/8/2013 2:43 PM, Dan Lewis wrote: On 05/08/2013 02:06 PM, Sean wrote: Hello, the header constantly repeats itself around 8 times on every page. it's in the location: Database- MusicStudents Reports- AverageCostLesson please tell me the solution

Re: [libreoffice-users] GSOC = Google's Summer Of Code

2013-05-09 Thread Tom Davies
Hi : That is it.  The deadline for entries has gone by already.  However it is still going to be interesting to see which projects are picked! :) Regards from Tom :)  From: anne-ology lagin...@gmail.com To: Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk Cc:

Re: [libreoffice-users] GSOC = Google's Summer Of Code

2013-05-09 Thread Mirosław Zalewski
On 09/05/2013 at 16:45, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Anyone any idea what is being put forwards this year? Take a look of ideas page on a wiki: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/Ideas This is by no means list of things that will be done. It's only a list of

Re: [libreoffice-users] java macro

2013-05-09 Thread Vieri
--- On Thu, 5/9/13, Regina Henschel rb.hensc...@t-online.de wrote: Hi Vieri, Vieri schrieb: I didn't need to use BeanShell. I edited the parcel descriptor xml file directly. I finally found out why I wasn't seeing the macro (or at least I think so). I needed to create my

Re: [libreoffice-users] Link with a space Pdf export error (%20 characters - space ones - exported as %2520 ones)

2013-05-09 Thread anne-ology
Seems strange this would be almost rejected ;-) Hi, this is the Mlmmj program managing the users@global.libreoffice.org Hi, Does a bug report exist yet? Liebe Grüße, / Yours, Florian Reisinger reisi...@gmail.com Am 09.05.2013 um 14:10 schrieb Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk:

[libreoffice-users] Re: Freezing a cell in Calc permanently

2013-05-09 Thread anne-ology
You can join this list by sending an e-mail to users+subscr...@global.libreoffice.org Hi The Wolfkin, try resetting the user profile, many times solve strange issues. https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/UserProfile -- To unsubscribe e-mail to:

Re: [libreoffice-users] re. Draw

2013-05-09 Thread anne-ology
That URL is to subscribe to this list; then you'll be able to post whatever whenever. Your question is now on this list; hopefully someone - in the know - will respond to you anon; actually, I believe some already have so done. On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 12:19 PM,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Database problem

2013-05-09 Thread Dan Lewis
On 05/09/2013 10:59 AM, Paul D. Mirowsky wrote: On 5/8/2013 2:43 PM, Dan Lewis wrote: On 05/08/2013 02:06 PM, Sean wrote: Hello, the header constantly repeats itself around 8 times on every page. it's in the location: Database- MusicStudents Reports- AverageCostLesson please tell me the

[libreoffice-users] Table of Contents woes

2013-05-09 Thread Carl Paulsen
LibreOffice 3.5.6.2 Build ID: e0fbe70-dcba98b-297ab39-994e618-0f858f0 On an Intel Mac on 10.6.8 I have a draft document in which I've used heading styles for sections. I now want to create a Table of Contents (ToC), but I'm having trouble getting it to work right. I'm using the styles almost

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: [libreoffice-users] [4.0.3.3 non fixed bug] Link with a space Pdf export error (%20 characters - space ones - exported as %2520 ones)

2013-05-09 Thread Florian Reisinger
Hi, Does a bug report exist yet? Liebe Grüße, / Yours, Florian Reisinger Am 09.05.2013 um 14:10 schrieb Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk: Hi :) %25 is the code for a % symbol so the 'wrong' link is not really wrong after all. It's just a bit odd and unnecessary. In the 'wrong' link

[libreoffice-users] Re: Freezing a cell in Calc permanently

2013-05-09 Thread mariosv
Hi The Wolfkin, try resetting the user profile, many times solve strange issues. https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/UserProfile -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Freezing-a-cell-in-Calc-permanently-tp3975798p4054962.html Sent from the Users mailing list

Re: [libreoffice-users] re. Draw

2013-05-09 Thread Jonathan Han
Hi! Thanks for the fast reply. So, just making sure, I send an email to users+subscr...@global.libreoffice.org with that question? Thanks! On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 5:59 AM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi :) Sorry that address looks like it got a bit mangled. this one might

[libreoffice-users] 4.0.3 64-bit DEB removed my extensions, but Windows version did not

2013-05-09 Thread Kracked_P_P---webmaster
I just installed 4.0.3 on two systems The 64-bit DEB install removed my extensions and the persona I has setup. The Windows install did not do this. Any idea way the 64-bit DEB install in Ubuntu 12.04 would remove my added items, but Windows did not? I do not know if it is a bug, or not.

[libreoffice-users] Re: Draw

2013-05-09 Thread D4rthFluffles
Thanks for the responses! To the extent of my knowledge, Photoshop smooths lines out when you draw. Like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7tvEBymKWw Haha, I know that's really bad, but something like that. That's what I meant by line smoothing -- View this message in context:

Re: [libreoffice-users] 4.0.3 64-bit DEB removed my extensions, but Windows version did not

2013-05-09 Thread Dan Lewis
On 05/09/2013 03:40 PM, Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: I just installed 4.0.3 on two systems The 64-bit DEB install removed my extensions and the persona I has setup. The Windows install did not do this. Any idea way the 64-bit DEB install in Ubuntu 12.04 would remove my added items, but

Re: [libreoffice-users] 4.0.3 64-bit DEB removed my extensions, but Windows version did not

2013-05-09 Thread Tim Lloyd
Fedora 18. Previous version 4.0.2.2. tar.gz downloaded via bit torrent from website. All good On 05/10/2013 07:16 AM, Dan Lewis wrote: On 05/09/2013 03:40 PM, Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: I just installed 4.0.3 on two systems The 64-bit DEB install removed my extensions and the persona I

Re: [libreoffice-users] 4.0.3 64-bit DEB removed my extensions, but Windows version did not

2013-05-09 Thread Kracked_P_P---webmaster
On 05/09/2013 05:16 PM, Dan Lewis wrote: On 05/09/2013 03:40 PM, Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: I just installed 4.0.3 on two systems The 64-bit DEB install removed my extensions and the persona I has setup. The Windows install did not do this. Any idea way the 64-bit DEB install in Ubuntu

[libreoffice-users] Help with multiple indexes

2013-05-09 Thread Eddie Armstrong
I'm trying to create multiple indexes in writer 4 but I cannot find out how to get them sorted alphabetically. From your help files: /For example, you might want an index containing only the scientific names of species // //mentioned in the text, and a separate index containing only the common

Re: [libreoffice-users] 4.0.3 64-bit DEB removed my extensions, but Windows version did not

2013-05-09 Thread Don Myers
Hi, I installed LO 4.0.3.3 on two machines running Ubuntu 13.04 with Unity today. I always download LO from the LO site, extract it to the desktop, and then run the following commands in the terminal: 1. sudo apt-get remove libreoffice*.* 2. sudo dpkg -i

Re: [libreoffice-users] 4.0.3 64-bit DEB removed my extensions, but Windows version did not

2013-05-09 Thread Kracked_P_P---webmaster
I extract them to the /home folder then rename it to Lib then I cd Lib cd DEBS then sudo dpkg -i *.deb I tend to not run an command on a folder that I am not in. I learned that in my mainframe days as a safety feature. So far, I have installed it on Ubuntu 12.04 and 13.04 with MATE

Re: [libreoffice-users] Help with multiple indexes

2013-05-09 Thread Brian Barker
At 23:34 09/05/2013 +0100, Eddie Armstrong wrote: I'm trying to create multiple indexes in writer 4 but I cannot find out how to get them sorted alphabetically. From [the] help files: /For example, you might want an index containing only the scientific names of species // //mentioned in the

Re: [libreoffice-users] 4.0.3 64-bit DEB removed my extensions, but Windows version did notI

2013-05-09 Thread Don Myers
I installed LO 4.0.3.3 tonight on a third computer, also with Ubuntu 13.04 and with Unity. No problems there either. On 05/09/2013 08:19 PM, Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: I extract them to the /home folder then rename it to Lib then I cd Lib cd DEBS then sudo dpkg -i *.deb I

Re: [libreoffice-users] 4.0.3 64-bit DEB removed my extensions, but Windows version did notI

2013-05-09 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Errr, the User Profile changed with the 4.0.x.  Under 3.x.x the path was blah...blah/3/blah under 4.0.x it's changed to blah...blah/4/blah So if you are upgrading from 3.x.x to 4.0.x then your Extensions, galleries, backups, templates and all the rest might not get picked up by the

Re: [libreoffice-users] gettextfields

2013-05-09 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
The problem is probably because these are input fields in a form. Either that, or it is because the fields are not anchored directly into the text in a way that enumerating text will display them. Can you email a copy of your document directly to me (off list). As long as it contains the

Re: [libreoffice-users] gettextfields

2013-05-09 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
http://www.pitonyak.org/OOME_3_0.odt http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt This document contains information on forms and such http://www.pitonyak.org/database/AndrewBase.odt On 05/08/2013 08:33 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) You might find it well worth buying the 3rd party guide produced

Re: [libreoffice-users] gettextfields

2013-05-09 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
Umm, it looks like I was a few days late and you already solved your issue, so no need to send me a copy of the document :-) On 05/10/2013 12:38 AM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: The problem is probably because these are input fields in a form. Either that, or it is because the fields are

[libreoffice-users] Base data-loss and other problems

2013-05-09 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) The marketing list is trying to tell people to use the internal back-end in Base because it's so good that it's a great selling point.  I'm fairly sure that quite a few people have had troubles with the internal back-end that were solved by 'just' moving to an external back-end.  I

[libreoffice-users] Not able to Unsubscribe from the mail-list

2013-05-09 Thread Wadhwa Sanjay-R56684
Hi, I am not able to unsubscribe from the [libreoffice-users] mail-list. When I click on the link, To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.orgmailto:users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Within seconds, I get a confirmation email. When I reply to that email, I do

Re: [libreoffice-users] Not able to Unsubscribe from the mail-list

2013-05-09 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Yes, you can't just click on those unsubscribe addresses.  You have to copypaste them into the To field at the top.  When you just click on them it ignores the users+ bit at the front and that is the important bit.  So, please copypaste those addresses.  Apols and regards from Tom :) 

Re: [libreoffice-users] Base data-loss and other problems

2013-05-09 Thread Hank Alper
Hi Tom, My experience with the embedded database in Base has convinced me to move to an external back-end. I have had several instances of data loss particularly during sessions of heavy data input. While I'm in the process of moving my database to an external H2 database, I still use the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Not able to Unsubscribe from the mail-list

2013-05-09 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Sorry, i sent this back tot he list because i'm not sure how to solve this one now.  The problems? page http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ suggests  1.  Check what type of subscription you have.  Either Standard or Digest.  Looks like Standard in this