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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

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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 Impress Tiled Rendering A shortish talk (as

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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. foreground images are not shown yet (this is

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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

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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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Firebird 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 week.) The database driver itself is almost

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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 every time it is

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Firebird 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 Windows (Mac OS still to be tested). Firebird (2.5) is

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GSOC 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 the Firbird SQL Database for

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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 “Find All” will make it as

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