[ooo-build] openoffice.org API offers not the functionality of official OOo

I forgot: I found the bug in Ubuntu Gutsy OOo 2.3. I use the amd64 version.

Thank you for the bug report. Can you please provide a list of installed openoffice.org packages by running the following command in a Terminal window?

dpkg -l | grep openoffice.org

Also which java runtime are you using with OOo?

Hi Jason,

> Thank you for the bug report. Can you please provide a list of installed
> openoffice.org packages by running the following command in a Terminal
> window?
>
> dpkg -l | grep openoffice.org

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tobias@schleppi226:~$ dpkg -l | grep openoffice.org
ii openoffice.org 1:2.3.0-1ubuntu5.3
                 OpenOffice.org Office suite
ii openoffice.org-base 1:2.3.0-1ubuntu5.3
                 OpenOffice.org office suite - database
ii openoffice.org-calc 1:2.3.0-1ubuntu5.3
                 OpenOffice.org office suite - spreadsheet
ii openoffice.org-common 1:2.3.0-1ubuntu5.3
                 OpenOffice.org office suite architecture ind
ii openoffice.org-core 1:2.3.0-1ubuntu5.3
                 OpenOffice.org office suite architecture dep
ii openoffice.org-dev 1:2.3.0-1ubuntu5.3
                 OpenOffice.org SDK -- development files
ii openoffice.org-dev-doc 1:2.3.0-1ubuntu5.3
                 OpenOffice.org SDK -- documentation
ii openoffice.org-draw 1:2.3.0-1ubuntu5.3
                 OpenOffice.org office suite - drawing
ii openoffice.org-evolution 1:2.3.0-1ubuntu5.3
                 Evolution Addressbook support for OpenOffice
ii openoffice.org-filter-binfilter 1:2.3.0-1ubuntu5.3
                 Legacy filters (e.g. StarOffice 5.2) for Ope
ii openoffice.org-filter-mobiledev 1:2.3.0-1ubuntu5.3
                 Mobile Devices Filters for OpenOffice.org
ii openoffice.org-gnome 1:2.3.0-1ubuntu5.3
                 GNOME Integration for OpenOffice.org (VFS, G
ii openoffice.org-gtk 1:2.3.0-1ubuntu5.3
                 GTK Integration for OpenOffice.org (Widgets,
ii openoffice.org-help-de 1:2.3.0-1ubuntu2
                 German help for OpenOffice.org
ii openoffice.org-hyphenation 0.2
                 Hyphenation patterns for OpenOffice.org
ii openoffice.org-hyphenation-de 1:2.2.0-2ubuntu1
                 German hyphenation patterns for OpenOffice.o
ii openoffice.org-impress 1:2.3.0-1ubuntu5.3
                 OpenOffice.org office suite - presentation
ii openoffice.org-java-common 1:2.3.0-1ubuntu5.3
                 OpenOffice.org office suite Java support arc
ii openoffice.org-l10n-common 1:2.3.0-1ubuntu2
                 common files for OpenOffice.org language and
ii openoffice.org-l10n-de 1:2.3.0-1ubuntu2
                 German language package for OpenOffice.org
ii openoffice.org-math 1:2.3.0-1ubuntu5.3
                 OpenOffice.org office suite - equation edito
ii openoffice.org-officebean 1:2.3.0-1ubuntu5.3
                 OpenOffice.org Office Bean
ii openoffice.org-report-builder
1:1.0.0+OOo2.3.0-1ubuntu5.3 OpenOffice.org Report Builder
extension
ii openoffice.org-style-human 1:2.3.0-1ubuntu5.3
                 Human symbol style for OpenOf...

I talked to the Ubuntu openoffice maintainer and he suggested that most bugs in the Uno API are due to openoffice being compiled with gcj current, which doesn't provide the same level of java support as sun's java compiler. This should change once openjava (icedtea) is used to compile openoffice. This will likely happen in hardy or hardy+1. Thanks again for the bug report.

Does this problem still affect you on Ubuntu hardy openoffice.org 1:2.4.0~rc2-1ubuntu3?

Thanks,

Chris Cheney

Chris,

I tried to test it: the first bug, I reported (http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=85073) is now solved. It works correctly.

But I cannot test the second due to my comments to bug 193139 (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/193139/). Summary: OOo does not find a JRE and my Extension needs a JRE. Please fix bug 193139 soon! This is very severe!

Thanks a lot! Greetings, Tobias

Hi Chris,

after installing openoffice.org-gcj I have java functionality on OOo in Hardy. I testet the second issue (http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=83074). It still does not work. Installing the OOo extension works fine, but the contained commandURL does not work.

Greetings, Tobias

Hi Chris,

tested with the new OOo packages that entered hardy today / yesterday: no changes.

Greetings, Tobias

Thank you for the status update, it is most likely java related but we can't change the java compiler until openjdk final version is released and is migrated to main.

Thanks,

Chris Cheney

Thanks for the information.

See http://api.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=19229 for one more missing feature.

Hoping there will be an openjdk soon in main.

Greetings and thanks, Tobias

Can you still reproduce this bug on Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid)? If you can still reproduce it on Ubuntu 8.10 does this happen on other versions of Linux like OpenSUSE? I am not sure if it something I may be doing wrong in Ubuntu or something that is broken in ooo-build which most versions of Linux use (besides RedHat).

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

Hi Chris,

sorry for the late status update. I forgot to answer your comment from October. Here the status for the current Intrepid packages. The following things still do not work:
- the name of a new toolbar is not correctly set (http://api.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=19229)
- a Java Extension CommandURL does not work if installed via API (http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=83074)

Greetings, Tobias

As you adviced in the comment. If you need further information, please add a comment.

Once you have installed the extension what is it supposed to do when you click on the item in the menu? I sent this bug to ooo-build where the problem is probably caused but they didn't know what it was even supposed to verify it was not working.

Thanks,

Chris Cheney

Hi Chris,

the extension should just dispatch a uno command URL. Here is the relevant part of code that. But this code is never run - I cannot even remote debug it:
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public void dispatch(URL aURL, PropertyValue[] lArgs) {
 if (aURL.Path.startsWith("Saveto")) {
  // Setting the SaveTo property
  PropertyValue[] saveProperties = new PropertyValue[1];
  saveProperties[0] = new PropertyValue();
  saveProperties[0].Name = "SaveTo";
  saveProperties[0].Value = new Boolean(true);

  // Dispatching the CommandURL
  OOUtils.dispatchCommandURL(xComponentContext, xFrame,
    ".uno:SaveAs", saveProperties);
 }
        else ....
}
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Hope this will help you. Tell you if you need a sample extension. I'll send it via PM.

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

Note the upstream developer claimed to have contacted the original bug submitter and did not get any response from them. If someone who can reproduce this bug please follow up to the upstream bug report linked to this issue and reopen this bug report.

Thanks,

Chris Cheney

Hi Chris,

Thorsten Behrens did not receive my mail. Added additional information on https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=467209 and reopened the bug.

Greetings, Tobias

Thanks for the follow up.

From the discussion in the upstream bug report this appears to be fixed in OOo 3.1 in Karmic and the ppa.