Re: Playing ping pong with ODF version; does it pose a danger to the end user.

2021-04-23 Thread Drew Jensen
st wishes, Drew On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 3:05 PM Regina Henschel wrote: > > Hi Drew, > > Drew Jensen schrieb am 22.04.2021 um 18:59: > > Howdy, > > > > Recently I exchanged a few documents between a number of ODF editors: > > LO 7.1 (all documents were create

Playing ping pong with ODF version; does it pose a danger to the end user.

2021-04-22 Thread Drew Jensen
Howdy, Recently I exchanged a few documents between a number of ODF editors: LO 7.1 (all documents were created here with default settings) Google Docs Microsoft Office 365 Apache OpenOffice In the case of all Google and MSO the files open up without any kind of warning about the ODF version bein

Re: Modify Libreoffice UI

2021-03-03 Thread Drew Jensen
Howdy Heiko, Since I've switched almost entirely to use of the tabbed interface I was wondering if there is any time frame for fully updating the tabbed (notebookbar) interface using the customization dialog? I know there is a limited support currently but far short of what is available for the le

Calc Solvers Info Doc/wiki page Re: Calc solvers - what to say in the Calc Guide

2020-05-19 Thread Drew Jensen
wise - any review of the current state of the document is most welcome. At the moment the file is in my private storage space on the NC server; I would prefer to move it to the shared documentation folder but wasn't sure where to put it? Thanks, Drew On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 6:54 PM Drew Jensen w

Re: Calc solvers - what to say in the Calc Guide

2020-05-18 Thread Drew Jensen
k > and would not benefit from being expanded further to include more solver > details. > > Regards, > > Steve > > > On Mon, 18 May 2020 at 06:39, Drew Jensen wrote: >> >> HI, >> >> Well, I noticed something aside from the Guide and that is the FA

Re: Calc solvers - what to say in the Calc Guide

2020-05-17 Thread Drew Jensen
rithm engines in LO - for one thing maybe a bit more. Anyway, any feedback is welcome. Will post tomorrow when those changes are made. Thanks, Drew On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 7:31 PM Drew Jensen wrote: > > This is an interesting point of differentiation. > Reviewing some of the tools yest

Re: Calc solvers - what to say in the Calc Guide

2020-05-16 Thread Drew Jensen
along anyway. On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 5:22 PM Drew Jensen wrote: > > Well here is something > Looking at the help file for version 7 > https://help.libreoffice.org/7.0/en-US/text/scalc/01/solver.html?&DbPAR=CALC&System=UNIX > the final text box states that 'only li

Re: Calc solvers - what to say in the Calc Guide

2020-05-16 Thread Drew Jensen
Linear choices are crazy faster then DEPS >> and SCO (The firth choice Swarm non-linear is just as quick but the results >> are kaka, but it does say it is experimental). >> >> On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 7:55 PM Drew Jensen >> wrote: >> >>> hmm - there are bit

Re: Calc solvers - what to say in the Calc Guide

2020-05-14 Thread Drew Jensen
say it is experimental). On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 7:55 PM Drew Jensen wrote: > hmm - there are bits and pieces here and there. > > For example the first two choices (DEPS & SCO) have some explanation over > at AOO wiki > https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/NLPSolver > If that

Re: Calc solvers - what to say in the Calc Guide

2020-05-14 Thread Drew Jensen
hmm - there are bits and pieces here and there. For example the first two choices (DEPS & SCO) have some explanation over at AOO wiki https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/NLPSolver If that is still relevant for LibreOffice I can't say, but likely. CoinMD (which I assume here is type of Coin-MP) has a

Re: Fwd: [libreoffice-documentation] Multi-threading in Calc

2020-04-23 Thread Drew Jensen
hu, Apr 23, 2020 at 4:56 PM Drew Jensen wrote: > To follow up on that. > > Using LO 6.4 & 7.0 pre-release build on Ubuntu. Recalculating one of the > OpenCL test xls files just now. > > Starting up with a command line > MAX_CONCURRENCY=0 ./soffice > Does turn the CP

Re: Fwd: [libreoffice-documentation] Multi-threading in Calc

2020-04-23 Thread Drew Jensen
0 at 1:48 PM Drew Jensen wrote: > BTW I'm copying a paragraph from an email on a different list. > > "Also - if you set MAX_CONCURRENCY=16 - or somesuch (ie. twice your > number of threads) - you may be able to defeat the hyper-threaded > halving, and see if this workloa

Re: Fwd: [libreoffice-documentation] Multi-threading in Calc

2020-04-23 Thread Drew Jensen
BTW I'm copying a paragraph from an email on a different list. "Also - if you set MAX_CONCURRENCY=16 - or somesuch (ie. twice your number of threads) - you may be able to defeat the hyper-threaded halving, and see if this workload happens to be one that does better with hyper-threading than withou

Re: How do I get rid of this error? Macro file requires OpenOffice but I would like to use Libreoffice

2020-03-14 Thread Drew Jensen
or happened. Good job, thanks Drew > > Jean-Pierre > > Le 11/03/20 à 21:34, Drew Jensen a écrit : > > Actually as I think about it. > > > > Isn't one of the differences between AOO and LO that AOO creates a new > > calc file with multiple sheets and LO

Re: How do I get rid of this error? Macro file requires OpenOffice but I would like to use Libreoffice

2020-03-14 Thread Drew Jensen
eets in a new Calc file and wanted to delete two. Changing the options setting from 1 to 3 allows it to run that function. Good job, thanks Drew > > Jean-Pierre > > Le 11/03/20 à 21:34, Drew Jensen a écrit : > > Actually as I think about it. > > > > Isn't one of

Re: How do I get rid of this error? Macro file requires OpenOffice but I would like to use Libreoffice

2020-03-11 Thread Drew Jensen
o. On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 4:31 PM Drew Jensen wrote: > Interesting. > > Just did a search in the issue tracking system and there is an open issue > regarding RemoveByName, but in a different context. > > Taking a quick look at that function and where it is called from it seems &g

Re: How do I get rid of this error? Macro file requires OpenOffice but I would like to use Libreoffice

2020-03-11 Thread Drew Jensen
Interesting. Just did a search in the issue tracking system and there is an open issue regarding RemoveByName, but in a different context. Taking a quick look at that function and where it is called from it seems a quick test using a copy of that function should be a fairly quick exercise. Befor

Re: Create my own function in Libreoffice Writer

2020-03-02 Thread Drew Jensen
Howdy, For a first start I'd recommend you grab a copy of the Writer Guide (6.0 is the latest of today) here: https://documentation.libreoffice.org/assets/Uploads/Documentation/en/WG6.0/WG60-WriterGuideLO.pdf Jump to Chapter 21 which covers basics of how to customize both menus and toolbars. If

GSoC 2020

2020-02-20 Thread Drew Jensen
Howdy, Noticed that Google has just released the selection for this years GSoC mentoring projects; LibreOffice has been selected. https://opensource.googleblog.com/2020/02/google-summer-of-code-2020-mentoring.html Best wishes, Drew ___ LibreOffice mai

Re: Open Source Hackathon Mentorship Invitation

2020-02-19 Thread Drew Jensen
Hello Misha, First I would like to thank you for taking the time to reach out to the community here. The work you are doing seems quite exciting and certainly appears to fit well with the goals of The Document Foundation. I suspect the biggest hurdle at the moment is time, or lack thereof, with

Problem launching latest dev build of LO7

2020-02-11 Thread Drew Jensen
Howdy, Running Ubuntu 18.04 (64bit) with LIBC_2.27 installed from the OS repo. Was successfully running Version: 7.0.0.0.alpha0+ Build ID: 4ff12ba6f4639c73587f2bb58afcc3ca6fb30105 CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 4.15; UI render: default; VCL: kf5; TinderBox: Linux-rpm_deb-x86_64@86-TDF, Branch:master,

LibreOffice and old Microsoft Binary file formats.

2020-01-21 Thread Drew Jensen
Howdy, Today I worked with 5 different word processors (LibreOffice 6.4, OnlyOffice 5.2, MS Word web, LibreOffice online and Google Docs, all current and in use in the wild. Of those 5 only one still allows the user to save files in the old Microsoft Binary version. In fact the other 4, includin

Re: GPU optimization feedback (I hope ;-)

2019-12-09 Thread Drew Jensen
I would be happy to share my sheets, such as they are, with them." So, question for the list; Take him up on the offer? If there is a use for another test file I'll let them know and IDK get it to the QA group, I guess - ? Thanks On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 2:10 PM Drew Jensen wrote:

GPU optimization feedback (I hope ;-)

2019-12-09 Thread Drew Jensen
Howdy, Thought I'd pass on a twitter exchange, to the list here, between myself and Wikisteff regarding another attempt to benchmark some of the changes to Calc recently. Wikisteff: "Oh, yeah! I wrote a 25th order Runge-Kutta integrator in Excel without using VB as well." Wikisteff: "Well, it *w

Re: Base without HSQL support?

2019-06-06 Thread Drew Jensen
On Thu, Jun 6, 2019 at 11:41 AM Caolán McNamara wrote: > On Wed, 2019-06-05 at 18:00 -0400, Drew Jensen wrote: > > > > Should the Migration Assistant be enabled by default yes, but the > > default button on the Dialog box which opens when the connection to > > an HSQL

Base without HSQL support?

2019-06-05 Thread Drew Jensen
Howdy, I'm just going to jump into it. If the question is; should Base not include the HSQL driver in the 6.3 release I would say no. Should Firebird Embedded SDBC be the default selection for new Base files, I'm agnostic. But Yes to include it as an option (without needing experimental mode). H

Re: Myanmar dictionary

2019-04-27 Thread Drew Jensen
Just in case 64bit Linux is correct for you - if you start on the main download page, find your OS and you will find a link to the language packs there for your particular OS. On Sat, Apr 27, 2019 at 3:18 PM Drew Jensen wrote: > Howdy, > > If you are looking for Burmese there is a lang

Re: Myanmar dictionary

2019-04-27 Thread Drew Jensen
Howdy, If you are looking for Burmese there is a language pack listed on the download page. All available are listed here https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download/?type=deb-x86_64&version=6.2.3&lang=pick Hope that helps. Best wishes, Drew On Sat, Apr 27, 2019 at 3:04 PM Cyrille wrote:

Re: [Bug 123999] time change causes the return of "parameter index out of range... using mysql and J/connector

2019-03-31 Thread Drew Jensen
Howdy Dan, You find all the daily builds at https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ I install those in parallel on my system, which I figure you already know how to do but for those who may not: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel Best wishes, Drew On Sat, Mar 30, 201

Re: Bug 122520 foreign key constraints

2019-01-12 Thread Drew Jensen
Hola Dan, Noticed that Tamas Bunth checked in two patchs today regarding MySQL foreign keys, it is marked as fixing issues in https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122437 I wonder if it might also address the problem here. I would give it a try with the latest 6.3 daily build in a d

Re: Bug 122675 MySQL native connector problem with LO 6.2.0.2

2019-01-12 Thread Drew Jensen
ew-default-authentication-plugin-caching_sha2_password/ On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 1:11 PM Drew Jensen wrote: > Howdy Dan, > > Some information on the problem and work around can be found here: > https://tableplus.io/blog/2018/07/failed-to-load-caching-sha2-password-authentication-plugin-solved.

Re: Bug 122675 MySQL native connector problem with LO 6.2.0.2

2019-01-12 Thread Drew Jensen
Howdy Dan, Some information on the problem and work around can be found here: https://tableplus.io/blog/2018/07/failed-to-load-caching-sha2-password-authentication-plugin-solved.html The issue was opened by another person yesterday and this issue was lined to it. Drew On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 12

Re: What does checking the option "Formatted Display" on the Calc Find Toolbar actually do?

2018-12-30 Thread Drew Jensen
Thank you On Sun, Dec 30, 2018 at 3:50 PM Jan-Marek Glogowski wrote: > Am 30. Dezember 2018 20:57:34 MEZ schrieb Drew Jensen < > drewjensen.in...@gmail.com>: > >Howdy, > > > >Long and the short of this email is the question posed in the subject > >line. >

What does checking the option "Formatted Display" on the Calc Find Toolbar actually do?

2018-12-30 Thread Drew Jensen
Howdy, Long and the short of this email is the question posed in the subject line. Can anyone point to where the answer to that question can be found? Thanks, in advance, for your time and help. Best wishes, Drew ___ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffi

Re: Minutes from the UX/design meeting 2018-Dec-06

2018-12-06 Thread Drew Jensen
abbed bar makes reasonable sense IMO. I just wanted to make sure to pay attention to the change for the documentation work. On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 11:12 AM Heiko Tietze wrote: > On 06.12.18 15:41, Drew Jensen wrote: > > ... > > My question Is; Will this change in menus to happe

Re: Minutes from the UX/design meeting 2018-Dec-06

2018-12-06 Thread Drew Jensen
I was just now looking at this using the tabbed notebook interface (though I'm running the 6.3Alpha0 build, so maybe there is some difference there from 6.2) and I see that the different places where the header/footer dialog is available already enables or disables depending on what was selected in

Re: OpenDocument spec tables row height [was: Writer - row-height, min-row-height and use-optimal-row-height]

2018-09-30 Thread Drew Jensen
For what it's worth as I am no sw expert, I'd say do the commit. It isn't like there is a real chance of an interoperability problem, AFAIK only other implementation is AOO. so... What could possibly go wrong? On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 4:51 PM Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > In the absence of feedbac

Re: How to Build LO Eclipse

2018-09-12 Thread Drew Jensen
to check > out this pull request: https://github.com/LibreOffice/loeclipse/pull/68 > > Regards > Samuel > > Am 03.09.2018 um 16:28 schrieb Drew Jensen: > > Howdy Shobhan, > > First, a little embarrassed that I somehow skipped visually what was there > for instruc

Re: How to Build LO Eclipse

2018-09-03 Thread Drew Jensen
Howdy Shobhan, First, a little embarrassed that I somehow skipped visually what was there for instructions. Not sure I understand about the python project, that is the only reason I cloned the repository https://github.com/LibreOffice/loeclipse was to pickup the python support. There was no pytho

Re: How to build LO Eclipse.

2018-09-02 Thread Drew Jensen
at 3:30 PM Drew Jensen wrote: > Howdy, > > Over at https://github.com/LibreOffice/loeclipse > the installation instructions are to use the Eclipse Marketplace. > > Currently the source has been updated from the recent GSOC project to add > python support and I would like to give

How to build LO Eclipse.

2018-09-02 Thread Drew Jensen
Howdy, Over at https://github.com/LibreOffice/loeclipse the installation instructions are to use the Eclipse Marketplace. Currently the source has been updated from the recent GSOC project to add python support and I would like to give that a shot. Are there any instructions for building the Ecl

Re: License information for extensions on LO's extension site

2018-08-31 Thread Drew Jensen
Hola, Just curious if the Templates will also require a license to be eligible for the TDF site. Today: - some don't declare a license on the website page. - some state a license on the website page -- some include a license declaration inside the template file. some of these do so in the fi

Re: Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64 in libmariadb-connector-c - build failure on master, with macOS

2018-08-20 Thread Drew Jensen
Noticed over on the QA IRC channel some talk about Mac and a recent change to the MySQL sdbc code: "Switch from mysql to MariaDB C API" : https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=3478d7453a3d65b3d8d164e8f898a0b79f005c58 for the change record. On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 11:38 AM Alexan

Re: HSQL to Firebird auto migration firebird data types

2018-05-07 Thread Drew Jensen
On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 4:25 AM Tamas Bunth wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, May 07, 2018 at 03:24:49AM +0000, Drew Jensen wrote: > > Looking at the open issues for the HSQL to Firebird auto migration > > functionality particular the issues regarding data types and other test >

HSQL to Firebird auto migration firebird data types

2018-05-06 Thread Drew Jensen
Hi, Looking at the open issues for the HSQL to Firebird auto migration functionality particular the issues regarding data types and other test files I put together a possible map of what I think makes sense in translating hsql to firebird types. [Read only view of it here https://nextcloud.docume

Re: API-CHANGE - dropping string properties which use vnd.sun.star.GraphicObject URL

2018-05-05 Thread Drew Jensen
Hi, > > On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 10:34 AM, Drew Jensen > wrote: > > Howdy list, > > > > Reading over this, and sorry if this is a naive question, but I was > > wondering if this could effect the way image controls work in forms and > > reports. > > >

Re: API-CHANGE - dropping string properties which use vnd.sun.star.GraphicObject URL

2018-04-27 Thread Drew Jensen
Howdy list, Reading over this, and sorry if this is a naive question, but I was wondering if this could effect the way image controls work in forms and reports. When an imagecontrol on a form (or Report Builder report) is linked to a character field in a data table the control reads a URL from th

Re: Database migration in Base

2018-04-13 Thread Drew Jensen
at 3:49 PM, Drew Jensen wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 3:33 AM, Bunth Tamás wrote: > >> Hi Alex, >> >> On 10 April 2018 at 15:04, Alexander Thurgood >> wrote: >> > Le 10/04/2018 à 12:30, Tamas Bunth a écrit : >> > Read through your blog pos

Re: Database migration in Base

2018-04-13 Thread Drew Jensen
On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 3:33 AM, Bunth Tamás wrote: > Hi Alex, > > On 10 April 2018 at 15:04, Alexander Thurgood > wrote: > > Le 10/04/2018 à 12:30, Tamas Bunth a écrit : > > Read through your blog posts, sounds really promising, and I am > > interested in testing with various hsqldb ODB files t

Re: Database migration in Base

2018-04-11 Thread Drew Jensen
Cool. Grabbed the 6.1alpha daily build just now and there it is as the default. Also grabbed a 6.04 and then the 5.whatever it is that comes out of the Ubuntu repo so I could create fresh hsql embed to open in 6.1. There are a bunch of older odb files on my computer which could feed some tests (s

Re: [libreoffice-website] Re: Promoting RCs on Facebook

2012-03-16 Thread drew jensen
On Fri, 2012-03-16 at 15:34 +0100, Volker Merschmann wrote: > Hi Cor, > > 2012/3/16 Cor Nouws : > > Volker Merschmann wrote (07-03-12 13:59) > >> In the meantime I have found the names of the maintainers: Gerard > >> Jensen, Don Crowley, Nikola Yanev > >> I do not know any of them and they are not

Re: [Libreoffice] (no subject)

2010-11-16 Thread Drew Jensen
On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 09:04 -0700, Tor Lillqvist wrote: > I would be very careful in using that number in any kind of bragging > fashion, without very explicitly indicating what it measures, exactly. > Of course, hard to do that in a short tweet, and it is bound to be > misinterpreted. Right - I u

Re: [Libreoffice] (no subject)

2010-11-16 Thread Drew Jensen
On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 15:51 +0100, Sebastian Spaeth wrote: > Summary, is that we lost 34,000 lines of > code since we started to code on LO... Howdy Sebastian, Outstanding - this is a figure we are confident enough in to publish? Sounds like it, but just to be sure..so, this is how I put it out

Re: [Libreoffice] Calc usability improvements

2010-11-15 Thread Drew Jensen
On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 09:47 -0500, Kohei Yoshida wrote: > 2) change the polarity of the current dialog so that the user > *unchecks* > the check box to dismiss future popups of the dialog, or Hi folks, Have been reading along quietly. +1 for that solution. Best wishes, Drew __

Re: [Libreoffice] credits page is 403 access forbidden

2010-10-26 Thread Drew Jensen
On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 15:39 +0200, Sebastian Spaeth wrote: > On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 13:50:06 +0200, Cedric Bosdonnat wrote: > > I'ld love to have at least the wiki authors in before making the > > official page live. > Done: http://sspaeth.de/uploads/tmp/index.html :-) > > No clue how to do a mapping