Over the course of the summer I’ve been adding some minor improvements to various parts of the Impress Remote — both on the Server and Android components. Remote Deauthorisation & Dialog Improvements (for WiFi connected remotes) (Implemented at the Paris…
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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 LibreOffice Android Viewer developed by Collabora (thanks to…
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 Impress Tiled Rendering A shortish talk (as…
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. foreground images are not shown yet (this is…
LibreOfficeKit GTK+ Viewer Widget
Easily integrating LibreOffice directly into any other application is now a step closer thanks to the new GTK+ lok_docview widget (currently only on the feature/gtkbmptiledviewer2 branch, API and naming liable to change, usual disclaimers, etc.). It currently sports a very…
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Tiled Rendering with LibreOfficeKit
This summer I’m going to be working on (hopefully) helping to add Tiled Rendering support to LibreOffice Calc and Impress. As a first stage I’ve been experimenting with implementing a pure GTK+ tiled rendering app, to allow for active testing…
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Bluez 5 support for LibreOffice Impress Remote
Recently some distros have started shipping Bluez 5 — this introduces a completely new DBus API, meaning that bluetooth support for Impress Remote was broken on such systems (openSuse and Fedora being the more notable distros now shipping Bluez 5,…
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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 integration is the disappearance of…
Embedded DB Selector for Base
It’s now possible to select the driver to use for embedded databases within Base thanks to the new selector: The default database remains HSQLDB, however this change allows easy creation of new firebird based .odb files (mainly for testing purposes…
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Firebird’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 needed e.g. in ‘CREATE TABLE “aTableName”….’ — Base uses quoted…
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