Welcome to NeoOffice developer notes and announcements
NeoOffice
Developer notes and announcements
 
 

This website is an archive and is no longer active
NeoOffice announcements have moved to the NeoOffice News website


Support
· Forums
· NeoOffice Support
· NeoWiki


Announcements
· Twitter @NeoOffice


Downloads
· Download NeoOffice


  
NeoOffice :: View topic - Universal 'replace' in Snow Leopard
Universal 'replace' in Snow Leopard
 
   NeoOffice Forum Index -> NeoOffice Development
View previous topic :: View next topic  
Author Message
yoxi
Cipher


Joined: Sep 07, 2004
Posts: 1799
Location: Dawlish, Devon

PostPosted: Sat May 30, 2009 1:12 am    Post subject: Universal 'replace' in Snow Leopard

There's some evidence that OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard will include in its System Preferences a universal 'replace' panel similar to the Tools::Autocorrect::Replace functionality in NeoOffice/OpenOffice.

Does anyone know how that will jibe with the NeoOffice internal system? There doesn't appear to be (so far) an option in the OSX panel to exclude particular applications, so presumably OSX and NeoOffice will compete with each other for supremacy over who gets to autocorrect text, unless there's a way to choose who wins.

- padmavyuha
Back to top
Samwise
Captain Naiobi


Joined: Apr 25, 2006
Posts: 2315
Location: Montpellier, France

PostPosted: Sat May 30, 2009 5:30 am    Post subject:

You mean this?

AppleInsider | Text to get smarter in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

AppleInsider wrote:
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, expected this summer, will deliver a variety of advanced text related features across all applications that use Core Text, according to people familiar with Apple's plans.


Wink
Back to top
yoxi
Cipher


Joined: Sep 07, 2004
Posts: 1799
Location: Dawlish, Devon

PostPosted: Sat May 30, 2009 6:19 am    Post subject:

Yup, that's the one - though the article I was reading didn't mention the 'you can turn each substitution on/off manually' factor, which is pleasing. Still, I think they ought to include an exclusion by app option - or a 'substitution list by app' would be even cooler Smile.

Meanwhile, what does happen when:

a) you type e.g. (c) and both NeoOffice and OSX want to substitute ©? Who wins? Does it matter (i.e. will there be a clash of processes) or will it be invisible to the user?

b) the user has modified a substitution in NeoOffice/OSX (e.g. (c) now substitutes (coelacanth) in NeoOffice, instead of ©) so that when the user types (c) they both try to substitute different things? Who wins?

I'm wondering because this has the potential to freak out a lot of users who don't know about/how to use the substitutions in either OSX or in NeoOffice. This forum already gets a number of support queries about substitution/autocorrect as it is.

- padmavyuha
Back to top
Samwise
Captain Naiobi


Joined: Apr 25, 2006
Posts: 2315
Location: Montpellier, France

PostPosted: Sat May 30, 2009 6:43 am    Post subject:

padmavyuha,

AFAIK NeoOffice doesn't use Core Text.
Back to top
yoxi
Cipher


Joined: Sep 07, 2004
Posts: 1799
Location: Dawlish, Devon

PostPosted: Sat May 30, 2009 7:09 am    Post subject:

Oh, okay - so that means none of this new OSX functionality will work in NeoOffice anyway. Well, it's a good thing the OpenOffice code has equivalents built-in Smile.

- padmavyuha
Back to top
pluby
The Architect
The Architect


Joined: Jun 16, 2003
Posts: 11949

PostPosted: Sat May 30, 2009 7:25 am    Post subject:

Samwise wrote:
AFAIK NeoOffice doesn't use Core Text.


Correct. NeoOffice does text layout using the older Mac OS X ATSUI functions so that it can run on Mac OS X 10.3.x and 10.4.x.

Patrick
Back to top
Display posts from previous:   
   NeoOffice Forum Index -> NeoOffice Development All times are GMT - 7 Hours
Page 1 of 1

 
You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum
You cannot attach files in this forum
You cannot download files in this forum

Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group

All logos and trademarks in this site are property of their respective owner. The comments are property of their posters, all the rest © Planamesa Inc.
NeoOffice is a registered trademark of Planamesa Inc. and may not be used without permission.
PHP-Nuke Copyright © 2005 by Francisco Burzi. This is free software, and you may redistribute it under the GPL. PHP-Nuke comes with absolutely no warranty, for details, see the license.