Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 10:12 am Post subject: Updated Aqua menu patch available for testing
Ed and I have fixed many of the bugs that were reported against the NeoOffice/J 1.1 Alpha 2 "Patch-3-Aqua-Menus" patch and I have posted "Patch-4". Note: since the Aqua menus appear to be fairly stable, "Patch-4" only contains Aqua menus and there is no longer a non-Aqua menu patch.
This patch contains fixes for the following bugs:
1. Various bugs in the Aqua menu code that caused Neo/J to hang or crash.
2. Bugs in the OOo code that caused Neo/J to hang or crash when opening HTML files or URLs.
3. Various other bugs in Bugzilla that are marked as "resolved/fixed".
You can download "Patch-4" from the following URL:
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Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 10:05 pm Post subject: Disappearing menus
Please, be on the watch for disappearing menus. I've seen this happen twice now, but for the life of me I can't figure out a series of steps to use to get it to reproduce. It seems to only affect the File and Window menu:
If you can find a series of steps, please attach it to that issue. I suspect it to be a "shared delegate" problem, but I can't figure out a test case to use to track down the issue.
Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 1:14 am Post subject: Re: Way to go!
machelpdesk wrote:
We'll now be rolling this out for 100 Mac users and saving nearly $30,000! Do you guys take donations?
AFAIK: yes they do (and if not, they should). And any cash that keeps Patrick and Ed safe from working for a living on other things gives them more time to work on NeoOffice/J. In other words, hold this thought and feel free to act upon it .
Great work, it seems to work fine. Thank you.
There is still the key assignement problem (the apple-shift-j makes a full screen, not the macro I assign).
Another strange thing: creating a database table, I see in the browser two database with the same name. I never tried in other version, so I do not know if this is a neoffice strange thing, or a generic openoffice strange thing.
Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 9:49 am Post subject: Re: Way to go!
machelpdesk wrote:
We'll now be rolling this out for 100 Mac users and saving nearly $30,000! Do you guys take donations?
We don't have any web pages set up to automatically collect donations, but I do accept donations through Planamesa Software (e.g. my corporation that I pay all of my Neo/J expenses from).
If you are interested in donating funds, please contact me directly at patrick dot luby at planamesa dot com.
Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2004 11:44 am Post subject: Re: Way to go!
pluby wrote:
machelpdesk wrote:
We'll now be rolling this out for 100 Mac users and saving nearly $30,000! Do you guys take donations?
We don't have any web pages set up to automatically collect donations, but I do accept donations through Planamesa Software (e.g. my corporation that I pay all of my Neo/J expenses from).
If you are interested in donating funds, please contact me directly at patrick dot luby at planamesa dot com.
I got some offline questions about my post and I think the questions are worth answering here:
Question: I want to help NeoOffice/J so why should I donate to Planamesa Software?
Answer: The primary reason is that if you sent a check to either Ed or I (we fund all of the costs of Neo/J and we have written all of the Neo/J code), Ed or I would have to pay California and U.S. taxes on that donation and we could not reduce those taxes by the costs that we are already spending to keep Neo/J running. By paying a corporation, I can legally offset any Neo/J expenses (this includes reimbursing any of Ed's expenses) against any donations. What this means is that 100% of donations are used to fund Neo/J instead of being consumed by taxes.
The main point here is that if someone wants to give a sizable donation (e.g. US$1,000 or more), Ed and I need to work with the donor offline to ensure that we don't inadvertently cause ourselves tax or other headaches.
I have renamed Neooffice, but I didn't seem to have this problem with 0.8.4.
Thanks again to everyone, the aqua menus are fantastic!
Most likely, your user configuration files have some entries that point to the "/Applications/NeoOfficeJ Alpha 1" directory. Try moving or deleting your ~/Library/NeoOfficeJ-1.1 directory and restarting Neo/J. This will reset your user configuration files to the default settings.
I have renamed Neooffice, but I didn't seem to have this problem with 0.8.4.
Thanks again to everyone, the aqua menus are fantastic!
Most likely, your user configuration files have some entries that point to the "/Applications/NeoOfficeJ Alpha 1" directory. Try moving or deleting your ~/Library/NeoOfficeJ-1.1 directory and restarting Neo/J. This will reset your user configuration files to the default settings.
Patrick
Perfect, it was starting to get annoying! I had another question, now that you can reorder menu items without the whole menu disappearing, whould it be possible to distribute a saved menu layout that is more Mac like with the patches? I just re-ordered mine and created a NeoOffice/J menu with options, about and exit.
now that you can reorder menu items without the whole menu disappearing, whould it be possible to distribute a saved menu layout that is more Mac like with the patches? I just re-ordered mine and created a NeoOffice/J menu with options, about and exit.
Until someone figures out where to change the default setup in the source (and maybe even then!) it's a pretty complex process and one I imagine Patrick doesn't want to touch (and even if he did, I'd prefer he worked on more significant functions like drag-drop, PDF optimization, Java 1.4/1.5 ).
That said, there's nothing stopping us (the users) from doing this. See several posts in this thread for more details on the nascent effort (we got started but I stopped because of time and the menu bug). We'd need a menu and keybindings file for each module (writer, calc, draw, impress, chart, math, etc.) for each language NeoJ ships with a UI for (or at the very least document the changes so someone who speaks the language can create a localized version).
Here's where I described my changes, but the best place to set these out might be in the NeoWiki rather than in the fora.
How'd you add things to the NeoOffice/J menu, btw?
now that you can reorder menu items without the whole menu disappearing, whould it be possible to distribute a saved menu layout that is more Mac like with the patches? I just re-ordered mine and created a NeoOffice/J menu with options, about and exit.
Until someone figures out where to change the default setup in the source (and maybe even then!) it's a pretty complex process and one I imagine Patrick doesn't want to touch (and even if he did, I'd prefer he worked on more significant functions like drag-drop, PDF optimization, Java 1.4/1.5 ).
That said, there's nothing stopping us (the users) from doing this. See several posts in this thread for more details on the nascent effort (we got started but I stopped because of time and the menu bug). We'd need a menu and keybindings file for each module (writer, calc, draw, impress, chart, math, etc.) for each language NeoJ ships with a UI for (or at the very least document the changes so someone who speaks the language can create a localized version).
Here's where I described my changes, but the best place to set these out might be in the NeoWiki rather than in the fora.
How'd you add things to the NeoOffice/J menu, btw?
Smokey
As my menu bar stands now it has 2 NeoOffice/J menus, the bold system menu and another right beside it. A dirty hack but it serves it's purpose.
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