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…
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…
I’ve started working on a version of the Impress Remote for Firefox OS. It currently only supports using TCP (i.e. Wifi or wired network), I’m going to start working on adding Bluetooth support once I get hold of some suitable…
More good news: the Libreoffice Design Team has come up with a first prototype icon for the remote (I hear they are working on further versions) — here’s a screenshot in context: Most of the development recently has been on…
Windows users will be glad to know that Impress Remote now supports bluetooth on windows, albeit only using the Microsoft Bluetooth Stack, and not (at least for the moment) any of the other stacks. I am however looking into adding…
The Impress Remote Control now supports bluetooth, albeit currently only on Linux machines. I’m going to be adding windows support as soon as the bluetooth dongle for my windows desktop arrives. In the meantime I’ve been working on a bit…
I’ve doing a fair bit of background work on the Impress Remote, involving a tedious couple of days getting pairing functioning correctly and reliably, and refactoring various services. For example, now you can control which remotes can control your presentation…
The last few days I’ve been working on the dialog which is used to allow a client to connect to libreoffice, here’s a very early screenshot: This screen will also have a pin input added to allow authentication (i.e. to…
On Friday I implemented the finding and almost the choosing of servers from the app — almost since a list of servers appears, but selection doesn’t yet actually do anything yet. I’m currently testing on a tablet, hence the rather…
Yesterday I added the ability to pause a presentation, which results in this screen being shown: There is also a very basic configuration screen, which lets you enable slide switching using the volume buttons, and to change the computer that…