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…)
16 Aug 2022
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…)
19 Apr 2022
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…)
11 Apr 2022
How to use Gerrit code review effectively
By Hossein Nourikhah On 11 April 2022 In Tutorial
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…)
10 Mar 2022
Use std::hypot for Pythagorean Addition – EasyHack
By Hossein Nourikhah On 10 March 2022 In EasyHack
There are many places in the code that calculating the Pythagorean addition is needed. (more…)
8 Mar 2022
Use Range Based For Loops – EasyHack
By Hossein Nourikhah On 8 March 2022 In EasyHack
Because for loops are a powerful tool in C/C++, they are one of the desirable tools when you want to do something repeatedly, or process elements of a data structures. But there many ways to write a for loop. Some forms of it are easier to use, read, write and understand, and some are not. Range based for loops are discussed in this article. They can be good if you know where to use them. (more…)
23 Feb 2022
Adding a new UNO command
By Hossein Nourikhah On 23 February 2022 In Tutorial
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…)
10 Feb 2022
Working with LibreOffice SDK Examples
By Hossein Nourikhah On 10 February 2022 In Tutorial
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…)