Colored tabs implementation in Calc
... or howto help a new contributor joining the OpenOffice.org Project.Many thanks to Daniel Watson, who wrote this new feature, and I would like to mention the great support from Kohei Yoshida, another OpenOffice.org developer from Novell, who is a Calc expert.
From my side, I welcomed Daniel . Since two days, we work together, (mostly on the #education.openoffice.org IRC channel ), to avoid bothering other devs, with basic questions, like explaining the build process, how to debug, rebuild including symbols, how to improve the code (like respect the coding guidelines .. and son on), and I fixed some builds issues with him ( + I started the code review ). The biggest issue we encountered was a dark visibility issue, but SC_DLLPUBIC macro helped to solve that.
To illustrate the great work Daniel did (mostly alone !!), better use screenshots :-)
Please note, I used Mac OS X Aqua version for the screenshots, but it should work the same way on all ports
The first one describes how we can set the color of the tabs :
The next illustrates the result :
Yet another example :
Now what ?
Of course, the road is long before integration, but Daniel created a wiki page, to start with specifications, and if you want to help him, feel free to contact him !
At the end, I just would like to say this is fantastic to welcome new developpers like Daniel, the message to the other who hesitate, is : please don't !!
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publié par ericb @ vendredi, janvier 23, 2009
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