alsVarious data types are used in LibreOffice code and also in LibreOffice API. Here we discuss some of these data types, which are important when you are working with LibreOffice code and API. (more…)
21 Dec 2022
3 Dec 2022
gbuild introduction – LibreOffice build system part 1
By Hossein Nourikhah On 3 December 2022 In Tutorial
LibreOffice uses a build system called gbuild which uses GNU Make. Migrating from the old build system to gbuild started in the OpenOffice days, but the migration took a while and a lot of effort, finishing around LibreOffice 4.1. (more…)
17 Nov 2022
Formatting the code in your patch for LibreOffice
By Hossein Nourikhah On 17 November 2022 In Tutorial
Do you want to submit a patch to LibreOffice Gerrit, and you’re wondering if your code will be accepted or not? Other than providing a good solution to resolve a problem (fix a bug, implement a feature or enhancement), you should care about the code conventions, and in particular, code formatting. Suitable code formatting for LibreOffice is what we discuss here. (more…)
3 Nov 2022
Crash fixes, part 2: abort
By Hossein Nourikhah On 3 November 2022 In Tutorial
One category of the bugs that we see in computer programs including LibreOffice is the unexpected crashes. You’re working with the application, and it is suddenly closed! In the previous part, I have discussed crashes that are caused by segmentation fault. In this article, I discuss the crashes from invoking abort() function. Please note that not an abort is not always a bad thing, or a bug. (more…)
24 Oct 2022
Crashes that you can fix! – EasyHack
By Hossein Nourikhah On 24 October 2022 In EasyHack
As discussed in the “crash fixes for LibreOffice, part 1: segfaults“, bugs that lead to crash in LibreOffice or other native applications can have different causes, and therefore need completely different fixes. Some of these bugs are hard to fix: you have to change the behavior of the application in order to avoid crashes. (more…)
6 Sep 2022
Crash fixes, part 1: segfault
By Hossein Nourikhah On 6 September 2022 In Tutorial
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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16 Aug 2022
ODF standard and the code – EasyHack
By Hossein Nourikhah On 16 August 2022 In EasyHack
Open Document Format (ODF) is a standard (ISO/IEC 26300) and native file format that LibreOffice uses. OASIS developed this file format based on the file format of StarOffice, the ancestor of LibreOffice. (more…)
19 May 2022
Interacting with the Review Bot on Gerrit
By Hossein Nourikhah On 19 May 2022 In Tutorial
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…)
5 May 2022
How to write a good commit message
By Hossein Nourikhah On 5 May 2022 In Best Practices
If you have started your journey to become an experienced developer, you already know that you have to describe what you have done when you change the code and submit it to be merged in the master branch. In git and many other source code management systems, this description is called a commit message. (more…)
26 Apr 2022
Supporting metafile formats: WMF/EMF/EMF+
By Hossein Nourikhah On 26 April 2022 In Tutorial
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…)