Archive for August, 2006

Uno IDL is the component specification language of OpenOffice.org. Here is a
solution to show some highlighted Uno IDL code. It uses GeSHi and you need to add a language
file describing how to parse and colorize you Uno IDL code. As this language
file doesn’t exist I created one, attached to this article.

(Post originally written by Cedric Bosdonnat on the old Nuxeo blogs.)

A new release is available on the usual update site.

http://cedric.bosdonnat.free.fr/ooeclipseintegration/

It mainly contains fixes for windows version as some code cleaning. This
version warns the user that white spaces in the SDK or project paths may
lead to problems of builds. This problem is due to some bugs of the idlc
compiler and will be fixed in a future release of the OpenOffice.org
SDK.

The next release will contain new interesting features like a Java
skeleton generation, services.rdb or component exports, and may be URE
application run in eclipse. Thus stay tuned…

(Post originally written by Cedric Bosdonnat on the old Nuxeo blogs.)

As office suites evolve, more and more functionalities are proposed to
end-users. Regarding spreadsheets, the next Excel generation will propose around 16
billions of cells in one sheet !!
This is done through a 1 000 000 rows versus 16 000 columns sheet

Damned, who needs
so many numbers on one sheet ???

Anyway, if it is not enough, for you, powerfull end-users, OpenOffice.org
Calc spreadsheet can propose a little bit more with a matrix of 2 000 000
rows versus 32 000 columns
The last cell coordinates of this 64 billions set is
AUHT2000000
Formulas even work !

Nota : this is obviously a joke as
some minor polish remains to be done on this quick hack (Thanks to
Niklas Nebel for its pointers)
We are also waiting for the Office 12 file format to test the export
functionality and are actually thinking to a 1 000 000 000 … Read more