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…)
22 Feb 2024
Make Impress master slides copyable – difficulty interesting EasyHack
By Hossein Nourikhah On 22 February 2024 In EasyHack
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…)
16 Nov 2023
String literals: C/C++ string data types part 2
By Hossein Nourikhah On 16 November 2023 In Tutorial
In the first part of the series on string types in LibreOffice, I discussed some of the string data types that are in use in various places of the LibreOffice code. I discussed various character and string data types briefly: OString, OUString, char/char*, sal_Unicode, sal_Unicode*, rtl_String, rtl_uString and also std::string. Now I want to explain string literals. (more…)
2 Nov 2023
Integer data types improvement – EasyHack
By Hossein Nourikhah On 2 November 2023 In EasyHack
Many different data types are used in LibreOffice code. During the long history of the LibreOffice, and before that in OpenOffice, there were integer data types that are no longer in use today. The task I discuss here is to choose appropriate data types to use instead of sal_uLong and similar deprecated integer data types. (more…)
26 Oct 2023
UNO API error reporting improvement – EasyHack
By Hossein Nourikhah On 26 October 2023 In EasyHack
In this blog post, I discuss the EayHack for improving UNO API error reporting. EasyHacks are good if you want to become familiar with LibreOffice programming, and this specific task is a good choice for beginners as it is a difficultyBeginner task. (more…)