New NeoOffice/J 1.1 RC patch available

[sardisson]

In other words, "if you do something unsupported, Neo/J might not throw errors any more and actually let you save...but you're still doing something unsupported"

Thanks for the clarification. I'll leave the wiki article as-is.

Smokey

[pluby]

I have just released NeoOffice/J 1.1 Release Candidate "Patch-3". "Patch-3" includes the following bug fixes:

- Right-to-left text - Neo/J did not handle intermixed right-to-left and left-to-right text. This bug has been fixed.
- Random crashing - A memory leak in Neo/J that was causing random crashing after using Neo/J for long periods. This bug has been fixed.

You can download "Patch-3" from the following URL:

http://www.planamesa.com/neojava/patch.php

Please post any bugs that you find in Bugzilla at http://bugzilla.neooffice.org/.

Patrick

[jjmckenzie51]

[pluby]

I have just released NeoOffice/J 1.1 Release Candidate "Patch-4".
"Patch-4" includes the following bug fixes:

- Installation of Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" - Some users have found that installing Tiger on their machine causes the "tar" command to be deleted. Without this command, both the Neo/J patch installer and Neo/J itself would not work correctly. This problem has been fixed by making Neo/J no longer use the tar command.
- Document list in the "Window" menu - Under certain circumstances, selecting a document in the Window menu would not work properly. This bug has been fixed.
- Transparent 3D images - When Neo/J's OpenGL support is turned on, transparent 3D images would not be drawn correctly. This bug has been fixed.

Also included in this patch is the NeoLight Spotlight plugin. NeoLight is a metadata importer for NeoOffice/J and OpenOffice.org 1.x formatted documents. It allows for searching and indexing of these documents based upon standard OpenOffice.org metadata and textual content, allowing for Neo/J and OpenOffice.org to be integrated directly with the Mac OS X 10.4 Spotlight environment. When you install "Patch-4" on Tiger, the NeoLight Spotlight plugin will automatically be installed and activated.

You can download "Patch-4" from the following URL:

http://www.planamesa.com/neojava/patch.php

Please post any bugs that you find in Bugzilla at http://bugzilla.neooffice.org/ or post any questions in one of the NeoOffice/J or NeoLight forums.

Patrick

[jjmckenzie51]

[pluby]

I have just released NeoOffice/J 1.1 Release Candidate "Patch-5". The big change in "Patch-5" is that closing the last Neo/J document will no longer display an empty window. With this patch, Neo/J will stay running with an empty menubar after closing the last document.

After closing the last document, you can open a document without having to relaunch Neo/J by opening a file from the Finder or by selecting one of the following localized menu items in the "NeoOffice/J" menu:

- Text Document
- Spreadsheet
- Presentation
- Drawing
- Formula
- From Template
- Open Document

In addition, "Patch-5" includes the following bug fixes:

- Hyphenation between ligatures - When a word was hyphenated between the letters of a ligature, the ligature would be superimposed over the hyphen and a space would be left at the beginning of the next line. This bug has been fixed.
- Java 1.5 on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger - For some users, installation of Java 1.5 would cause Neo/J to not be able to load Java 1.3.1 and Neo/J would crash. This bug has been fixed.
- Crashes after displaying native print dialogs - In certain cases, Neo/J would crash after displaying the native "Print" or "Page Setup" dialog. This bug has been fixed.

You can download "Patch-5" from the following URL:

http://www.planamesa.com/neojava/patch.php

Please post any bugs that you find in Bugzilla at http://bugzilla.neooffice.org/ or post any questions in one of the NeoOffice/J forums.

Patrick

[Alex]

Patrick,

When opening NeoOffice/J you can press Command-W or choose Close from the menu bar and the default window will close leaving a blank window. Closing this one gives the Menu Bar alone. On the other hand, opening NeoOffice/J and closing the open window by clicking the red close button from the window doesn't give a blank window but immediately the Menu Bar alone.

Is this behaviour intended?

Best regards,
Alex

[sardisson]

The behavior was left over from old hacks to keep Neo/J from quitting on cmd-w (two different codepaths in OOo, one for the red globe and one for cmd-w!), but Patrick has already fixed it: bug 799

Smokey

[pluby]

Yesterday, I released NeoOffice/J 1.1 Release Candidate "Patch-5". Unfortunately, the fix for the "crashes after displaying native print dialogs" bug can cause scaling to change between pages when a document is printed.

This bug was reported and fixed this morning so I have released NeoOffice/J 1.1 Release Candidate "Patch-6" with the fix. "Patch-6" also includes the fix for bug 799.

If you downloaded "Patch-5", I recommend that you download and install "Patch-6" so that your documents will print correctly.

Patrick

[JCG]

That would explain why my document didn't print out correctly.

But I am wondering why NeoOfficeJ didn't prompt me to download Patch 6 when I opened the app this morning, as has occurred when previous patches were released?

[sardisson]

[OPENSTEP]

The patch check was throttled back from user requests, particularly those off of dial-up or intermittently connected machines. Normally it's not bad and probably will be getting better as well as Patrick has things stabilizing quite nicely

ed

[sardisson]

[JCG]

[sardisson]

You can also sign up for the Neo/J Update mailing list (see http://www.planamesa.com/neojava/contact.php for details); Patrick always posts a message to that list after a patch is released and includes some details of what's changed.

Smokey