I have previously discussed fixing crashes in 2 parts (segfaults, aborts). Here I discuss testing crashes to avoid creating re-creating regressions. (more…)
18 Apr 2024
18 Mar 2024
Test improvement – More and better tests for LibreOffice
By Hossein Nourikhah On 18 March 2024 In Tutorial
One of the areas that can help LibreOffice, but may not directly be visible to the users even though it has a big impact is the quality assurance, is automated testing. Here, I discuss some areas and notes around improving tests for LibreOffice. First, I start with regressions and bug fixes without a test. (more…)
29 Feb 2024
Writer tables converted to plain text – difficultyInteresting EasyHack
By Hossein Nourikhah On 29 February 2024 In EasyHack
If you copy contents from LibreOffice Writer to a plain text editor like gedit or Notepad, you will see that it does a straightforward thing: It copies the text and some basic formatting like converting bullets to ‘•’. For the Writer tables, the conversion is very simple right now: every cell is written in a separate line. (more…)
22 Feb 2024
Make Impress master slides copyable – difficulty interesting EasyHack
By Hossein Nourikhah On 22 February 2024 In EasyHack
When working with LibreOffice Impress, “Slide Master” is the place where you can change the templates used for different types of the slides used in your presentation. Here we discuss a possible improvement for the “Slide Master” by making the copy from master slides possible. (more…)
4 Feb 2024
gbuild for Java tests – LibreOffice build system part 3
By Hossein Nourikhah On 4 February 2024 In Tutorial
25 Jan 2024
gbuild tips and tricks – LibreOffice build system part 2
By Hossein Nourikhah On 25 January 2024 In Tutorial
In the first blog post on LibreOffice build system, gbuild which uses GNU Make, I discussed some of the features of it. Here I discuss more about some gbuild tips and tricks that you may need. (more…)
3 Jan 2024
Outlook for the new year 2024
By Hossein Nourikhah On 3 January 2024 In Announcement
Now that year 2024 has come, I want to briefly discuss the year 2023 around the development blog, and the outlook for 2024 here. (more…)
21 Dec 2023
Custom string literals: two EasyHacks
By Hossein Nourikhah On 21 December 2023 In EasyHack
In the previous part of the series on C/C++ strings, I described the string literal, plus how and why to use them. Then I introduced the new custom string literals and their benefits: (more…)
14 Dec 2023
LibreOffice extensions with Python – part 2: Debugging
By Hossein Nourikhah On 14 December 2023 In Tutorial
In my previous blog post on creating LibreOffice extensions with Python, I have discussed how to write a Python code that works with LibreOffice API, and can be run and debugged in an IDE, and packed later in an extension. Now I discuss how to debug the Python code. (more…)
25 Nov 2023
LibreOffice extensions with Python – part 1
By Hossein Nourikhah On 25 November 2023 In Tutorial
Ever wondered how to create a LibreOffice extension? Here I discuss how to do that via Python programming language. It is possible to run and debug the resulting Python code in an IDE, and then package the content as an extension. (more…)