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Some Find Bar Improvements
The LibreOffice Find Bar has gained “Match Case” and “Find All” buttons to match the functionality of it’s Firefox Equivalent: The “Match Case” checkbox has made it into 4.1, I’m not sure whether the...
View ArticleGSOC 2013: LibreOffice Firebird SQL Connector
Yesterday I found out that I’d been accepted into the Google Summer of Code 2013 to work on LibreOffice! Many thanks to the Mentors for accepting me! My project involves implementing an SDBC driver for...
View ArticleFirebird building within LO
Things have been taking slighty longer than expected with the first stage of the Firebird integration project, I have however finally gotten Firebird building within LibreOffice both on Linux and...
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Embedded Firebird now working
The embedded firebird driver can now create new .odb’s using firebird, and open and save existing files — when running the firebird db is stored in a temporary file, this is copied into the .odb file...
View ArticleFirebird now in master
Firebird has now been integrated into LibreOffice master! It now builds on Mac and Windows in addition to Linux. (I’ve only tested on Linux but will be testing/fixing as necessary on Mac/Windows this...
View ArticleFirebird’s Dialects
After spending some time trying to figure out why firebird didn’t like quoted identifiers I discovered that I had missed that the database supports multiple sql “dialects” (quoted identifiers are...
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LO Embedded Firebird/HSQLDB performance comparison
One of the major motivations for my GSOC project this summer was to get rid of the somewhat inefficient use of Java from C++. One immediate difference noticeable from early on when working on Firebird...
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Calc & Impress Tiled Rendering preview
Recently I’ve been working on Calc and Impress tiled rendering, with some results now becoming visible: Impress Impress Tiled Rendering is now integrated into master — there are still some issues, i.e....
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Calc & Impress Tiled Rendering, and LOKDocView
At the Libreoffice Conference 2014 in Bern I gave some very brief talks, both related to my work this summer on tiled rendering (and the possibilities of reuse in external applications): Calc and...
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LibreOffice on Android #3 – Calc Documents
After a somewhat painful debugging experience*, it’s now possible to view Calc documents on Android too. This combines the Calc Tiled Rendering work (thanks to the Google Summer of Code) with the...
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