LibreOffice uses VCL (Visual Class Library) as its internal widget toolkit to create the graphical user interface
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22 Nov 2024
VCL weld: create LibreOffice GUI from design files
By Hossein Nourikhah On 22 November 2024 In Tutorial
14 Nov 2024
Notebookbar part 1: custom widgets for the tabbed interface
By Hossein Nourikhah On 14 November 2024 In Tutorial
Notebookbar, or tabbed interface is an attempt to modernize LibreOffice user interface. In these series, I
24 Oct 2024
Crash fix part 5: crash report tool
By Hossein Nourikhah On 24 October 2024 In Tutorial
In previous blog posts about crashes in LibreOffice, I have discussed how to debug and fix some
17 Oct 2024
WSL for building LibreOffice
By Hossein Nourikhah On 17 October 2024 In Tutorial
Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is a mechanism to use complete Linux distributions on Windows. Here I discuss how to use
3 Oct 2024
Setting dialogs that are available via UNO Commands
By Hossein Nourikhah On 3 October 2024 In Tutorial
LibreOffice options page provides rich set of settings for everyone who wants to tune LibreOffice to match
15 Aug 2024
Extending the UNO API
By Hossein Nourikhah On 15 August 2024 In Tutorial
Various functionalities of the LibreOffice are available through its programming interface, the UNO API. Here I discuss how to extend it.
What
29 Jul 2024
Fuzz testing to maintain LibreOffice code quality
By Hossein Nourikhah On 29 July 2024 In Tutorial
Here I discuss what fuzz testing is, and how LibreOffice developers use it incrementally to maintain LibreOffice code
25 Jul 2024
LibreOfficeKit for document conversion
By Hossein Nourikhah On 25 July 2024 In Tutorial
In the previous blog post, I provided a brief introduction to LibreOfficeKit API which one can use for accessing LibreOffice
27 Jun 2024
LibreOfficeKit API in action
By Hossein Nourikhah On 27 June 2024 In Tutorial
If you want to use LibreOffice functionality in your applications, LibreOfficeKit API is one of the good ways to do that.
30 May 2024
Porting Java tests to C++
By Hossein Nourikhah On 30 May 2024 In Tutorial
In this blog post, I discuss porting Java tests from Java to C++. We have many Java tests, and porting