dimanche, août 20, 2006

Native Mac OS X port: new screenshots

Back since a week, a lot of changes in Mac OS X native port of OpenOffice.org have been done while I was on holidays !!

I first want to say thank you to Christian Lippka for all the work he recently did with bitmaps: his work is great, and helped a lot.

A big thank you Christian !!

Of course, I don't forget Pavel, Pierre ...and all other people of the Mac Team, doing a wonderfull work for the port: thank you too ! :-)

Using these changes, OpenOffice.org runs without X11 (using Pavel tips with droplet).
How ? Just have a look... ( Terminal.app replaced xterm, to proof I really didn't use X11)

First example, using draw (click the preview to enlarge):


Native Draw




Native Draw



Second, opening Business cards sample in Writer (click the preview to enlarge):


Native writer



To satisfy the curious ~ 70 other screenshots can be found here : Other screenshots of OpenOffice.org on Mac OS X without X11

Note: don't forget to ask me if you want to use these screenshots.


Of course , a lot has to be done, and currently, we have still important problems to solve :

- event loops
- complete ATS font server implementation
- implement all missing methods in aqua
- complete windowing management (some parent issues)
- practice intensive debug

- (lot of other tasks ... )

The most important: we need help from experimented Carbon developers.

If you have a very good Carbon API experience and want to contribute on OpenOffice.org, please contact us !


To be continued ...

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ericb

Contact : mac@porting mailing list or ericb at openoffice dot org

publié par ericb @ dimanche, août 20, 2006