As a LibreOffice user, you have certainly seen the LibreOffice splash screen. It is displayed when you
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18 Apr 2025
Splash screen with VCL weld – difficultyInteresting EasyHack
By Hossein Nourikhah On 18 April 2025 In EasyHack
17 Feb 2025
Understanding the existing code to provide better patches
By Hossein Nourikhah On 17 February 2025 In Best Practices
LibreOffice inherits a gigantic code base from its ancestors, StarOffice and OpenOffice. Here I discuss some notes
30 Jan 2025
Custom message boxes using VCL Weld
By Hossein Nourikhah On 30 January 2025 In Tutorial
When you want to interact with users, sometimes simple dialog boxes are sufficient: a simple yes or no, or
16 Jan 2025
Outlook for the new year 2025
By Hossein Nourikhah On 16 January 2025 In Announcement
Happy new year 2025! I wish a great year for you, and the global LibreOffice community. Now that we
22 Nov 2024
VCL weld: create LibreOffice GUI from design files
By Hossein Nourikhah On 22 November 2024 In Tutorial
LibreOffice uses VCL (Visual Class Library) as its internal widget toolkit to create the graphical user interface
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.