#i110253# - Chart: chart2: chart::WrappedPropertySet::setPropertyValue crash
Many people complain about an issue they have with Excel after uninstalling or upgrading the Sun ODF Plugin for Microsoft Office: When starting Excel, Excel complains that the Add-In odfaddin.xla can't be found: 'C:\Program Files\Sun\Sun ODF Plugin for Microsoft Office <old version>\converter\odfaddin.xla' could not be found. (...)Step 1: Installing the ODF Plugin:
+ [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{16A1C170-D2C8-423B-AEC6-BAD7A26F1828}\InprocServer32]
+ @="C:\\Program Files\\Sun\\Sun ODF Plugin for Microsoft Office 3.1\\converter\\odfaddin.dll"
+ [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\Excel\Addins\ODFAddIn.Connect]
+ "Description"="Load and save files in OASIS OpenDocument format"
+ "FriendlyName"="ODF Add-in"
+ "LoadBehavior"=dword:00000003
Step 2: Starting Excel (now Excel creates the entry that leads to the problem):
+ [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Excel\Options] + "OPEN"="\"C:\\Program Files\\Sun\\Sun ODF Plugin for Microsoft Office 3.1\\converter\\odfaddin.xla\""
Step 3a: Uninstalling the ODF Plugin (all entries written by the installer are being removed):
- [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{16A1C170-D2C8-423B-AEC6-BAD7A26F1828}\InprocServer32]
- @="C:\\Program Files\\Sun\\Sun ODF Plugin for Microsoft Office 3.1\\converter\\odfaddin.dll"
- [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\Excel\Addins\ODFAddIn.Connect]
- "Description"="Load and save files in OASIS OpenDocument format"
- "FriendlyName"="ODF Add-in"
- "LoadBehavior"=dword:00000003
still there (of course!):
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Excel\Options]
"OPEN"="\"C:\\Program Files\\Sun\\Sun ODF Plugin for Microsoft Office 3.1\\converter\\odfaddin.xla\""
Step 3b: Upgrading the ODF Plugin, instead of uninstalling:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{16A1C170-D2C8-423B-AEC6-BAD7A26F1828}\InprocServer32]
- @="C:\\Program Files\\Sun\\Sun ODF Plugin for Microsoft Office 3.1\\converter\\odfaddin.dll"
+ @="C:\\Program Files\\Sun\\Sun ODF Plugin for Microsoft Office 3.2\\converter\\odfaddin.dll"
still there (of course!): HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Excel\Options] "OPEN"="\"C:\\Program Files\\Sun\\Sun ODF Plugin for Microsoft Office 3.1\\converter\\odfaddin.xla\""
So if Excel has a reference to the Add-In, Excel should probably simply disable the Add-In when it doesn't exist anymore, instead of complaining over and over again. Or at least ask the user whether or not to keep the entry...
You may not know what the drawinglayer is and what it would bring to borders in Writer. This is a new framework for drawing stuffs on the screen in OpenOffice.org. It offers a nice and easy API to render complex shapes. When implementing the new engraved / embossed / inset / outset border types in OpenOffice.org, I have seen the big difference between the rendering in Writer or Calc and the rendering for impress tables. To give you an idea of what happens, here are several motivations to change the way to render borders in Calc and Writer:
I have just completed a first implementation for the Writer objects and tables: some screenshots will help you to understand the whole story…
Embossed table before the hack
Embossed table with the drawinlayer
Outset table with the drawinglayer
The changes will soon be committed to ooo-build git repository… but the patch won’t be applied by default as it’s still work in progress.
Yesterday evening we received the good news from Google: ooo-build will be a mentoring organization this year again. This year we will have the pleasure to share projects slots with ooo4kids, the new OpenOffice.org based Office suite for 7/12 years old children. I hope that we will have motivated and fantastic students this year too!
It’s now time to choose some project and submit your ideas to the community. Check out the project ideas wiki page and don’t hesitate to ask for some additional information or discuss your ideas with us on the IRC (#go-oo on irc.freenode.net), mailing list or by private email with the mentor. Please note that we are requiring each student submitting a project to solve a simple coding exercise described on the wiki page.
Many thanks to Google Summer of Code organization team for allowing us to live this hacking experience again!
#i110236# - Database access: Error: operator delete mismatch
#i110214# - Drawing: Polygon fill not matching border lines
#i110202# - Database access: Fehler beim Schreiben des aktuellen Datensatzes
git pull --rebase origin master was not working,
or at least why the git diff master..origin/master
after that was showing me rubbish. Apparently my local
origin/master was not really fetched. git fetch
made everything consistent; good stuff.
-freorder-blocks-and-partition and compared notes
on lots of different esoteric possible speedups. Chattered
happily with the system-tap guys and Federico, prodded Evo some
more, bed late.
#i110190# - Database access: Column headings used in report writer instead of column names
#i110179# - Database access: report builder extension 1.2 fails to install on oo.org 3.2
Yesterday, Matthieu Paret, student at UTBM, joined the channel and proposed to help us. So, I suggested to install a Mandriva, and try to build OOo4Kids. Once installed, we helped Matthieu to start the build, and spend yesterday evening, with some issues.
#i110170# - Database access: Base help not contain help text for option "Use keyword..."
#i110157# - Database access: Memo length should retain value when editing a table in design view.
#i110126# - Database access: Selective Data MergeI’m happy to announce OpenOffice.org 3.2.1 beta1 packages for openSUSE. They are available in the Build Service OpenOffice:org:UNSTABLE project, are based on the upstream 3.2 sources and include many Go-oo fixes and improvements. Please, look for more details about the openSUSE OOo build on the wiki page.
The packages are beta versions and might include even serious bugs. Therefore they are not intended for data-critical usage. A good practice is to archive any important data before an use, …
As usual, we kindly ask any interested beta testers to try the package and report bugs. See also the list of known bugs.
Other information and plans:
The beta1 packages are not available for openSUSE Factory. We are working on fixing the build there.
The beta2 build should be available two weeks from now. The first release candidate should be by the end of April. The final release should happen in May.
Developer Snapshot OOo-Dev DEV300_m75 is available for download.
DEV300 is the development codeline for upcoming OOo 3.x releases.
If you find issues within this build please file them to OpenOffice.org's bug tracking system IssueTracker.
Download:
http://download.openoffice.org/next
Release Notes:
http://development.openoffice.org/releases/DEV300_m75_snapshot.html
MD5 checksums:
http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/DEV300_m75_md5sums.txt
#i110117# - Database access: Turning off alias options in Advanced settings does not remove aliased table name from SQL
#i110111# - Database access: No access to subform data in form (MS-Access)
Un grand merci à Jean-Marie Lafon pour son super boulot.Protection des préférences par mot de passe from Jean-Marie LAFON on Vimeo.
Réglage du niveau utilisateur pour "Writer" from Jean-Marie LAFON on Vimeo.
git
merge is not what you want to do, particularly several
times. Seemingly git pull --rebased - which is
marked as dangerous and bad in the man page is what you want.
This brings back the darkest days of trying to track and
update a large, long running cvs branch: but worse.
Incompetant git use: no doubt.
git pull --rebase
would want to apply the same changeset twice ? apparently
nonsensical but after skipping a number of such sillies, the
diff to the original merge tag evaporated: near victory.
Annoyingly Matthew's identical merge went with, apparently
no problems, amazing. Dinner, bed.
#i110089# - Chart: Copy cell range, then move it on chart makes chart "invisible"
#i110084# - external: python: Error smtplib.py:709 in function sendmai (OO 3.2)
#i110067# - Database access: connectivity: typos in resource.pot
#i110063# - Formula editor: in subscript error
#i110040# - *Testproduct: alignment problem
#i110034# - Chart: copy-paste of chart+ranges looses data references
#i110004# - Drawing: New colors are not updated in standard.soc
Developer Snapshot OOo-Dev DEV300_m74 is available for download.
DEV300 is the development codeline for upcoming OOo 3.x releases.
If you find issues within this build please file them to OpenOffice.org's bug tracking system IssueTracker.
Download:
http://download.openoffice.org/next
Release Notes:
http://development.openoffice.org/releases/DEV300_m74_snapshot.html
MD5 checksums:
http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/DEV300_m74_md5sums.txt
DEV300_m74 +5 overall unused, though sal becomes unused method free.
#i109984# - Chart: Data table headers become misaligned when a column is resized via double-clicking
DEV300_m74 has been built by Hamburg RE. No open build problems are known, and smoketest has been passed successfully.
Tasks and their ChildWorkspaces for Milestone DEV300m74
fix problems in cygwin build
Writer fields enhancements.
support for shapes in chart
move jpeg CMYK extension from jpeg lib into jpeg filter
various bug fixes
OOo 3.3 installation tasks. This cws replaces native276 because of technical problems.
Fix for HH MacOSX environment
configmgr reimplementation (to improve performance etc.)
misc. OOo 3.3 issues
Hamburg Release Engineering <hr@openoffice.org>, March 09, 2010 06:52 PM
#i109970# - Chart: Transparency in grids and axes slow down chart updating
One of the rather odder bugs. OOo’s file menu suddenly appears for no good reason (while playing embedded video in Firefox on another workspace). Story is that OOo has the focus while the video is playing in totem-mozplugin, totem-mozplugin seems to want to inhibit the screensaver from kicking in so sends regular Left Alt strokes to the display via XTest. If OOo has the focus, it receives the Alts, and one of its quirks is that the file menu appears on press and release of Left Alt.
#i109956# - Database access: refreshRow does not refresh text fields bound to a field whose value changed
#i109937# - Installation: openofficeorg32 abends w/o installing
#i109901# - Presentation: a pps file failed to play in Impress
#i109898# - Database access: oForm.insertRow() doesn't work correct
#i109881# - Chart: chart2: ChartTypeTemplateProvider has no virtual dtor, but delete is called on ChartTypeTemplateProvider* on inherited objectsLast updated: March 20, 2010 03:16 PM