One of the bugs that we see in computer programs including LibreOffice is the crash. You’re working with the application, and the program is suddenly closed! I discuss the usual causes for crashes, and how to fix some of them. Here I write about segfault crashes.
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Category: Tutorial
Interacting with the Review Bot on Gerrit
Have you received “A polite ping, still working on this bug?” message on one of your Gerrit submissions? You can simply send an arbitrary reply to avoid the patch being abandoned within a month. Here we discuss more about Review bot, which is one of the QA (Quality Assurance) tools for the LibreOffice QA team to manage old submissions. (more…)
Supporting metafile formats: WMF/EMF/EMF+
LibreOffice supports many file formats, and among them are some raster and vector image formats from Microsoft. Metafile formats WMF, EMF and EMF+ are among the vector formats usable in Microsoft products, and also in LibreOffice. Here we discuss the implementation of the support for these file formats in LibreOffice. (more…)
Using cmake to build LibreOffice C++ SDK examples
These days, many C++ projects are built using build tools like cmake and meson in addition to GNU make (gmake). In this blog, I have already written on how to compile and run LibreOffice SDK examples using gmake. Now I want to discuss instructions for compiling and running C++ examples using cmake as the build tool. (more…)
How to use Gerrit code review effectively
Any code submission to LibreOffice should pass Gerrit code review in order to get merged into the LibreOffice codebase. This is possible using the code review tool Gerrit. (more…)
Adding a new UNO command
What are UNO commands, and why would you need them? If you want to add some feature to the LibreOffice UI, you may need to add or modify a UNO command, so it would be help much to learn more about these commands, and in general, the dispatch framework. So, stay tuned! (more…)
Working with LibreOffice SDK Examples
Do you want to write a program that uses LibreOffice to convert different formats, or otherwise work with LibreOffice from another process? A solution would be using LibreOffice SDK. (more…)
Regression Fix: Missing Lines in DOCX
Interoperability is a very important aspect of the LibreOffice. Today, LibreOffice can load and save various file formats from many different office applications from different companies across the world. But, bugs (specially regression bugs) are inevitable parts of every software. In fact, there are situations where the application does not behave as it should, and a developer should take action and fix it, so that it will behave according to the expectation of the user. (more…)
Automated bibisect to find source of a bug
In programming, we usually face bugs that we should fix to maintain or improve our software. In order to fix a bug, first we should find the source of the problem, and there are tools like “Automated bibisect” are available to help, specially when the bug is a regression. (more…)