OOo 3.1 features

[funkypepper]

http://www.oooninja.com/2009/01/openofficeorg-31-new-features.html

the features seems cool, what do you think about them?
I most liked the anti-aliasing fix, that will be really cool..

[jakeOSX]

looks cool! good to see they are continuing forward progress

(and bug fixing )

[Samwise]

FWIW, the Calc equivalent to the second feature in that list (new highlighting) has been disasbled in NeoOffice 3.0 Early Access. The reasons for this are explained in the following thread:

Selection colour in Calc NeoOffice 3.0

[pkidwell]

So, here's a silly question (and I know I'm late in finding this thread): can NeoOffice add a user preference for this? And basically make the code look like:

if(preference set)
{
new OO 3.0 code
}
else
{
old OO 2 code
}

I guess that depends on how easy it is to add a new preference into the OO user prefs system.

Pete K.

[pluby]

You can already do this in both NeoOffice and OpenOffice.org using the GetSolarVersion() function.

- In any NeoOffice 2.2.x and OpenOffice.org 2.2.x thorugh 2.4.x, this will return an integer between 680

- In any NeoOffice 3.0.x and OpenOffice.org 3.0.x release, this will return 300

- In any OpenOffice.org 3.1.x release, this will return 310

Hope that helps,

Patrick

[pkidwell]

Sorry - I wasn't clear. I was referring specifically to the discussion on Calc selection coloring - the 3.0-style "pale blue" vs. the 2.x-style "inverted color". So the new user preference would be "use system highlight color" and in the code, it would switch between the 3.0 highlighting code that was disabled, and the 2.x highlighting code that was put back.

So even if OO.o didn't make it a preference, could Neo do so?

Thanks,
Pete K.

[pluby]