OpenOffice.org at Apple Expo (Paris)
The Mac OS X Porting Team is proud to announce OpenOffice.org will be present at
Apple Expo (Paris), from 12 to 16 september.
Many thank's to Frédéric Vuillod, Manuel Naudin, Benoit Koch, Sophie Gautier and Cusoon for their help !
I'll be present too the 15th and 16th, a good occasion to show the native version (running without X11) in runtime.
See you !! 
Contact : mac@porting mailing list or ericb at openoffice dot org
OpenOffice.org without X11 : native menus are coming ...
Christian again did some black magic with event loops, with some code one proposed me to test.
Everything is described on
Christian's wiki
...and
now we have, combined with Pavel's work
real native menus.
It means OpenOffice.org without X11 menubar now looks like other Mac Applications !!
Currently, this bar is not completely active, and using a wrong charset, but this will be fixed soon (click on preview to enlarge) :
We know we have a lot to do to make all menus work, but this is another big step forward we did.
See the
OpenOffice.org without X11 screenshots link
Next work in progress : add other native controls (sccrollbar, buttons ..etc)
Stay tuned ;)Contact :
mac@porting mailing list or ericb at openoffice dot org
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ericb
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):
Second, opening Business cards sample in Writer (click the preview to enlarge):
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
