OpenOffice.org
Development digest
2nd February 2004
Spanish translation available thanks to Alexandro Colorado.
It seems thet the MyDoom/Novarg virus affected the mailing lists at OpenOffice.org
as most lists grew to a crawl and some even shut for business completely.
Besides this normal OpenOffice.org development proceeded.
Biweekly developers build M22
The developers build m22 has been released and includes changes for table cells/rows which can now continue over a page boundary, general UNO API for URI handling, more compatability fixes, VCL cleanups, and many other bug fixes. Also included is the work around for the comma/dot usage on the keypad for spreadsheet users.
Plugins for VCL
The document here describes the VCL plugin architecture and which plugins are available at this time.
Native Language News
Afrikaans, Zulu and Sipedi announcements
Craig Adams wrote
to tell us that the Afrikaans dictionary and the beta
Zulu translation of OOo 1.1.0 were available adn that the the Northern Sotho (Sipedi) and Afrikaans
beta translations are now available. For more info you can refer to
openoffice.org.za or www.translate.org.za.
Arabic & Hebrew Native-Lang Projects
Two more native-lang projects were announced.
The Arabic Project is led by Mr Khayat and
backed by the Arabeyes free-software community, an important player
and supporter of free software and OpenOffice.org in the Arabic world.
The Hebrew project has been created by Tkos, an Israeli company who is
also in charge of localizing OpenOffice.org and StarOffice but who
managed to
set up a real and lively community of users, developpers and marketers.
These two projects show the growing influence of OpenOffice.org in the
Middle-East and we are delighted that such prestigious cultures and
people have adopted OpenOffice.org as their free and open productivity suite .
In Other Development News
Mailing list problems
OpenOffice.org mailing lists were severelly affected by the MyDoom virus as the mail server was very busy routing the messages to the poor receipients. Work from the COllabNet camp hints at messages in the millions being handled. This is another reason why this digest is a bit one the "light" side.
Some of the impressive statistics available up to Feburary 2nd :
- total for week prior to 2 Feb: Total messages: 2702804
- Accepted by destination: 416751 (15.4%)
- Rejected by destination: 117692 (4.4%)
- Rejected by Brightmail: 237632 (8.8%) (spam detection tool)
- Rejected by sendmail: 1930729 (71.5%)
API@OOo NEWSLETTER: Janurary/2004
This months newsletter covers :
- Multiple-Inheritance Interface Types
- How to insert a Field usable in the mailmerge function.
- Casting Versus UnoRuntime.queryInterface
- Opportunities to Contribute to OOo
- What do do in Listeners and What Not do in Listeners
- Preventing OpenOffice GUI DIalogs from Popping up
- No TLB Files needed for OLE-Automation Binding
- StarOffice7 Basic Programmers Guide in 10 Languages
- Retrieving a TextField in the Current Paragraph
- CodeSnipped: Merging Subsequent Cells with Equal Values
- Correction of CodeSnippet Template
- Closing Office Documents
- Security Within Macros
- How to Make Another Document the Current Document?
- Worm-Attack
OpenOffice.org Perl Library
The OpenOffice.org Perl Library(ooolib) can be used to create simple OpenOffice.org Calc spreadsheet and Writer text documents.
Mistaken attribution of the PyUNO OOo XML SAX Parser
I must applologise to Danny Brewer as last week I mistakenly attributed the PyUNO code he wrote to someone else.
Danny has actually written quite a number of PyUNO articles on OOoForum.
OpenOffice.org 1.1 for OS/2 goes beta
Innotek announced the Beta port of OO 1.1 for OS/2 and eCs is now available
at the innotek download site.
This weeks Issuezilla summary
Many bugs have been worked on and resolved (as of Monday Feb 02 2004
):
|
No this week |
Change from last week |
Issues which have the status UNCONFIRMED |
390
|
-41
|
Issues which have the status NEW |
952
|
+4
|
Issues which have the status STARTED |
1035
|
+45
|
Issues which have the status FIXED |
7724
|
+53
|
(a more detailed set of statistics is available here)
Some of the more interesting CVS developments over the last week include:
week 5 (2004):