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1.9 m77 Snapshot - ReleaseNotes

these notes contains changes between 680_m74s1 and  680_m77.
this release will install as OpenOffice.org 1.9.77, it comes with ugly hacked splash screen to make clear, that this is not the final 2.0 build.
Sources can be received from cvs by tag SRC680_m77.

This release is close to the upcoming OOo 2.0 Beta Release, this is the list of issues which is currently worked on to get fixed for Beta:
41272 Presenta application crashes when closing document after selecting tabs
41972 Word pro Outline gets lost when saving (Update-Index results in empty
41958 framewor Controls Toolbar in Dialog Editor is empty
41794 Word pro paragraph break in numbering cannot be removed by using "del"
39922 Database Save-As (and renaming) of HSQL database document loses data
41746 Word pro Relative font sizes get lost when saving (File gets unreadable)
41437 framewor Gnome file picker crashes on fedora core 3
41870 Presenta Crash when loading impress doc after opening new impress
41814 Word pro Crash with extruded custom shape and clicking trough view/Toolbars
41892 Drawing Crash when inserting chart in draw/impress
41984
 Chart
 Office crash when loading calc with Chart using random numbers
41569
 Word pro
 Incorrect file URL in master document links

What's new ?

- if you miss some features in the list or the list is empty, it is possible that the feature-announcement is missing.
- or the issue wasn't added to a CWS, have a look at the issue in EIS.


Feature title TaskId Spec. abstract Spec. link Component
javamaker generates types recursively intern feature-info:
The javamaker generates types now recursively. old: javamaker -Tcom.sun.star.text.* ... generates all types in the module "text" but not of the sub modules new: javamaker -Tcom.sun.star.text.* ... generates all types in the module "text" and all types of sub modules. javamaker -T* is identical with no -T option which means that all types are genrated No formal specifiaction is available, see the tools description i the SDK (/docs/tools.html )

api
css::text::MailMerge service extended i30916 feature-info:
The service com::sun::star::text::MailMerge has been extended. Printing: -additional property "PrintOptions" that transports the properties of the service com::sun::star::view::PrintOptions (CopyCount, FileName ...) Saving to files: - SaveFilter: apply any text file format - SaveAsSingleFile: create a single output file Sending as e-Mail: Added all properties that are necessary to send the output documents by e-Mail See details in service com/sun/star/text/MailMerge.idl and MailMergeType.idl
api
Toolbarbuttons changed i39971 This specification covers the Toolbar content changes for OpenOffice.org 2.0 speclink drawing
inconsistent terms for slide in impress i21968 feature-info:
There were several inconsistencies in the used terms for slides in impress. Wrong occurences of the term "page" have replaced by "slide". Wrong occurences of "Dia" in the german strings have replaced by "Folie". The german names of the slides have changed from "Seite 1" "Seite 2" and so to "Folie 1" "Folie 2" and so. For further details see issue 21968. 		speclink
not set 		presentation
Erroneous delete warnings removed i39635 feature-info:
There were several erroneous warnings in Impress and Draw when you tried to delete a slide or page. All this warnings have been removed completely. In the associated menu entries the ellipses have been removed accordingly: Delete Slide... -> Delete Slide Delete Page... -> Delete Page See Issue 39635 for further details. 		speclink
not set 		presentation
Default shape filling color changed from blue 7 to blue 8 i41101 feature-info:
Default shape filling color changed from blue 7 to blue 8 		speclink
not set 		ui


List of Feature/Enhancement Tasks

ID Comp Summary
35698 Installa Override ooo 1.1 desktop integration
29208 Word pro Form Letter page break on field in header
34429 porting OSL_TRACE not visible in Windows Debugger
26337 sdk setsdkenv_unix should not call new shell
22148 gsl New Ximian artwork
37381 Database Save Form & Window dimensions into *.odb file
31025 tools Autodoc: Provide convenient error log file.
40595 Installa Provide custom icon for start menu folder
40272 Installa Windows start menu structure
29308 sdk improve SDK examples to use new UNO features
36457 framewor recovered document immediately starts autorecovery
40630 gsl Toolbar & Menubar should provide border for better improvin
40472 gsl Drag Area: On mouse down it shall allowed to drag the splitt
41506 framewor Improve treatment of saving in alien formats
40268 framewor Display path in save dialog of error report tool
40134 gsl Improve X11 core font coverage heuristic
41101 Presenta Change default fill color from "Blue 7" to "Blue 8"

Integrated Child Workspaces

List of integrated child workspaces:

configuretypofix m77 fix typos in configure.in breaking/affecting FreeBSD build. Also Solaris/SPARC
mmeeks04 m77 Some utterly trivial fixes to a hackers-only script
imprec01 m77 repair & improve autorecovery
alienwarning m77 The user experience of saving in alien formats is improved
twobeta m77 fixing some Beta relevant bugs
validationbeta m77 fix of a beta relevant issue
fwkbetashowstop01 m77 Framework beta show stoppper.
sdksample m76 Used for SDK example improvements (using new simple UNO bootstarrping,...)
wordmlfilter01 m76 for wordml filter
frrtf01 m76 Fixes in RTF Filter
jre5issues m76 The cws contains bug fixes which are necessary to use SUN jre 1.5.0
vcl34 m76 still more 2.0 issues
nativefixer3 m76 Fixes for native installer
fwkbugfix05 m76 Bugfixes for OOo2.0
iha06 m76 Beta fixes for impress
mav15 m76 Embedding, storing and loading issues.
vcl35 m76 Still more issues for 2.0
xsltfilter06 m76 XSLT filter CWS. Especially Excel import and export filter
impress20 m76 Impress/Draw bug fixes
aw023 m76 BugFixing CWS
os47 m76 Bugfixing
calc28 m76 Calc bugfixes
aw025 m76 BugFixing CWS for beta
impress30 m76 Beta fixes for Draw/Impress
fwkbeta03 m76 restore filter order inside office dialogs only !
ause017 m76 build fixes/improvements
presbeta01 m76 Last-minute fixes for 2.0 beta.
adc10 m75 Bug Fixes for OOo 2.0
hc680postbeta m75 Last Beta fixes for Help
oasisbf4 m75 Bugfixes for OASIS file format
dvoqbfix m75 bugfixes DVO
impress27 m75 Bug fixes
kso13 m75 Misc Beta bugfixes
xmlperf01 m75 XML performance optimizations
helpcl m75 Help related things
scriptingf10 m75 Beta bugfixing
babelfish05 m75 l10n tooling
sj14 m75 Some PowerPoint and PDF filter bugfixes for OOo 2.0
swqbugfixes13 m75 Writer layout/text formatting bugfixes
cd04 m75 Fixes for Beta.
tbe17 m75 OOo 2.0 bug fixes
kso14 m75 More OOo 2.0 Beta bugfixes
pbbeta07 m75 Bugfixes for SO 8 Beta
qwizardsbf2 m75 Bugfixing CWS for wizards
cd05 m75 Bugfixes for Beta.
impress32 m75 beta fixes for impress
smoketest4 m75 preserve lineends of bootstrap.ini
unxlngs01 m74s1 linux sparc port
configure4 m74s1 Miscelaneous bug fixes for config_office/
gcj1 m74s1 Build with gcj
trabugfixingso8 m74s1 A couple of small bugfixes for SO8
systempython m74s1 <p>system python has come a little unstuck. This workspace fixes it.

Fixed Issues

ID Comp Summary
39646 document bookmarks in Online help
40949 Presenta Switching view from slide sorter to normal shows insertion i
38806 l10n FilterCFG: Filter UI names are not localized
35842 framewor Reschedule is called to often during load/save (progress mod
38457 framewor "Open Office" file format instead of "OpenDocument"
40506 gsl Send Document As PDF does not work on Debian Linux
40589 Word pro OLE object lost when saving as sdw file
39054 Database TableWizard:Orthographical mistakes in german tablescenarios
36800 Presenta Navigator not visible during fullscreen presentation
40553 tools Package manager crashes Office when bootstrap.ini has an val
36948 Presenta input must not be buffered during presentation
37354 Presenta insert slide in Layout task pane doesn't work.
38210 Presenta Importfilter Powerpoint gets wrong Diagram
38558 Presenta PPT-import: Order of effects is wrong
38629 Presenta Incorrect re-layout of draw view after slideshow in window
39976 Presenta crash when I change into the outlineview
40390 Presenta effect option: hide on next animation change to hide after a
21968 Presenta Provide separate strings for Draw and Impress: "page" vs "sl
24934 Presenta Set template as default doesn't work in Impress
32645 Presenta scrollmouse wheel doesn't work in the task pane
38135 Drawing Text animation doesn't work correct.
38391 Drawing Crash when I click on 'View / Previw'
39635 Drawing erroneous message box in Draw/Impress
33487 Presenta text reappears after deleting it in the outline view.
36217 Presenta RNG: lists contained in graphic styles
37897 api API: sw.XMLStylesExporter::com::sun::star::document::XFilter
39323 api create complex test for new recovery implementation
38814 Presenta Effect Options Timing After previous doesn't work
35737 Installa Typo: "A Unknown Error" -> "An Unknown Error"
39928 porting sc break on Mac OSX SRC680 m67 build because inlining
40524 Word pro "HTML Source View" is not specified and 80% of its content i
40444 Word pro draw elements not in correct place in masterdocument
40299 Word pro Basic Shapes appears under View - Toolbars
40221 Word pro invisible text in th HTML source view
40220 Word pro Crash atempting to make a read-only HTML file writable
38502 framewor No progress bar anymore while saving
39268 framewor format menu empty in m65
40795 framewor Customize>Keyboard>Double Click> BOOM
38200 framewor HTML docs initially have status 'modified'
40045 Word pro Saving an HTML document warns for possible format loss
40002 Word pro Stylist view option "Automatic" not Chosen if Call From More
39934 Word pro Focus Not Set to Stylist Window If Called Via More... Entry
39930 Word pro Content of Paragraph Style List Box is not Sorted Alphabetic
39442 Word pro automatically registered database in Insert|Fields|Database
39236 Word pro Section - Link crashes when no valide pathe name is entered
37724 Word pro Remove Form Object toolbar
38261 framewor "Block" toolbars now open as "1 line toolbar"
29453 Word pro Send Outline to Clipboard / Presenation does not work correc
40787 document Implement new help compilation/linking process
36295 Presenta Stop-button doesn't work in Animator
39951 utilitie "more" doesn't work on field.
39157 gsl allow copying assertions from the debug-window
40128 Drawing Focus Lost in Spellcheck Dialog After Jump to Next Object
33319 tools instsetoo/packimages does not build in 4NT shell with cygwin
41705 framewor Controls in Dialog Editor are drawn twice
40445 Spreadsh Attempts to export .xls file to PDF causes Writer to crash (
38570 Spreadsh RNG: Missing attributes in Datapilot document content.xml
36961 Spreadsh RNG: content errors in Matrix_Formulas_and_Notes document
36650 Spreadsh RNG: content errors in Validity document
35416 xml RNG (calc;styles.xml): value for attribute "date-value" is w
36352 Spreadsh RNG: content.xml:107:666: error: attribute "text-line-though
40704 Spreadsh Content of some tracked changes is lost after save & reload
40982 l10n localize.pl have to deal with sym links
39815 Word pro FixedText error: writer - ToolsSort
39814 Word pro FixedText error: writer - MailMergeWizard
39812 Word pro FixedText error: writer - Footnotes
39808 Word pro FixedText error: writer - Page Style
39807 Word pro FixedText error: writer - Graphics
39805 Word pro FixedText error: writer - Envelope
39802 Word pro FixedText error: writer - Insert Caption
39799 Word pro FixedText error: writer - Fields
38569 Word pro Paste special (as formatted text, i.e. RTF) into writer/writ
40132 Word pro Return address in envelope window cover on wrong position
40130 Word pro No date on german layout, when Letter signs on step3 disable
40015 Word pro Germany samples has wrong Page-Style after loading.
39583 gsl PDF export distorts end of axes ticks of EMF plots
40319 gsl Missing text in PDF output of presentation.
40014 Word pro Graphics will not display on sample document
40011 Word pro Bugdoc with table won't load correctly
38507 Word pro Letter wizard crash by finishing
38177 Word pro mail merge hang ...
38175 Word pro mail merge crasher ...
22548 document Search in online help handles some german letters incorrect
39688 Database Open the database wizard only after clicking 'Open' from the
40709 framewor pressing <ctrl>+<F1> disables all tooltips
40864 framewor FixedText error: StarOffice - Help
36648 Word pro Disable Return address in envelope window won't work with ge
36645 Word pro Letterhead layout is not consistent.
38842 Installa Installation wizard: provide pictures without Sun logos, ...
39052 udk cppumaker creates and leaves temporary files in sourcetree
37179 Installa wizards requires org.w3c.dom (>jdk1.3.1)
25268 Word pro memory overwrite in _InitCore()
40009 scriptin Logdocument of document converter is not always opened
22312 Formula Brackets are not completely displayed
34961 Spreadsh badly broken isLeapYear function
40722 l10n #: langtab.src#RID_SVXSTR_LANGUAGE_TABLE.LANGUAGE_NONE.paire
40454 l10n en-US vs. de mismatch: Fram~e...
39676 l10n Evaluate special chars / encoding
38824 l10n Replace sdf extract date with a dummy
35469 l10n Take care in localize.pl that German is no longer source lan
38338 Word pro Office dies during closing the spellchecker dialog
41232 l10n Introduce '-x' switch to localize.pl to prevent sorted local
41044 l10n Please fix the en-US translation 'Rollen' in Effects.xcu
40909 l10n Remove reduant xml-lang tags from helpcontent2 strings
38597 *Testpro Obsolete define in macro.inc
39042 Installa pre2par.pl doesn't check if localize data must exist
36837 Installa Shellscripts for OpenOffice.org language packs (unix)
39462 tools please honour EPM envvar in installer
39950 tools add osx format for EPM in package build process on Mac OSX S
41134 tools W32-tcsh: bootstrap.ini has POSIX lineendings.
41207 tools Simple install and file lists for lang subpackages
40375 Installa small changes in packing process
39194 Installa the latest tail doesn't support -/+ option
39068 Installa Control.ulf: possible typo
3885 www Can't check out xml or xmerge from anoncvs
40494 Presenta impress tab page visibility needs to be improved
41339 framewor Menu bar should retrieve images on demand
37410 ui Crash Reporter: Text area cannot be left with <Tab> key
38660 gsl problems with cups printer queue detection
39912 porting MacOSX jvmfwk javaldx lstdc++ .dylib delivery
40180 porting FreeBSD porting : jvmfwk project
36082 sdk javamaker terminates without error when type error
41050 api version number definition missing/incomplete?
36006 sdk configure & setsdkenv produce invalid PATH
35359 sdk Write short summary for the forms example source files
26335 sdk SDK requires JDK even when user want to compile C++ UNO comp
24142 porting FreeBSD support in ODK
30346 udk astdump.cxx does not compile under Solaris/x86
40985 udk comparison is always true due to limited range of data type
39890 sdk Adapt samle documents to new SO8 default format
38748 sdk redesign html documentation of the SDK
38747 sdk adjust link flags for CC 5.5 or higher
37980 sdk Developers Guide: wrong file format extensions in Basic and
37906 sdk OASIS OpenOffice documentation have to be added to SDK docu
40232 xml Write error exporting document to xhtml
39502 xml OpenOffice.org DTD does not work with MSV
38574 xml Frame Style: style:protect="content size position" missing
38326 xml DTD OOo XML 1.0: Unexpected attribute fo:keep-together="alwa
35420 xml RNG (chart;content.xml): attribute "table-number-list" has n
40947 Presenta style attribute presentation:transition-style is written in
28027 xml Parentasis move when exporting to xhtml
36885 xml flat XML filters don't support OLE objects
38186 framewor Package component manifest's namespace URI is wrong
35451 Word pro Missing HIDs in Autopilot Fax (Fax Wizard)
25269 framewor Scripting Framework scripts should be deployable using pkgch
27133 framewor Documents of unknown format are not loaded without error mes
37438 framewor Localized files in {office-inst}/user/autotext/
38050 framewor Background colors not assigned to controls
39159 framewor ThisComponent not refresh after OLE object editing
39330 framewor BeanShell editor should prompt to save before closing
39386 framewor MemoryUsage document is readonly after installation
39434 framewor assigned Macro on "Start Application" is not triggered
40363 framewor Script Organizer does not handle exceptions from XBrowseNode
40429 framewor OSL_TRACE calls should be removed
40875 framewor FixedText error: StarOffice - Basic
40876 framewor BASIC macro organizer loses HID when accessed multiple times
40880 framewor document converter and euro converter don't work anymore
40887 framewor disabled controls in packagemanager
40994 framewor Append Libraries dialog doesn't display *.xlb files
41693 framewor Package-Manager UI freeze when working with packages
37339 scriptin Assertion: "DataFlavour not initialized"
36681 sdk missing IDL definitions
32023 Word pro WordML export: drawing objects are not exported
38381 Word pro RNG: error bad value "x" from namespace .. in content xml
29589 Word pro WordML import: frames are not displayed correctly
37213 Drawing should not move them to topleft for which does not have (0,0
38380 Word pro RNG: error: element table-properties from namespace .. in st
29597 Word pro WordML import: drawing objects are not displayed
29604 Word pro WordML import: wmz format graphics not visible
35875 utilitie Switch on parallel making in curl, libxml2 and python
36728 sdk chart add-in doesn't work
40966 utilitie 'dmake patch' alters lineends
39195 porting Activate OSL_TRACE only if OSL_DEBUG_LEVEL>1
37913 Installa smoketestoo_native fails for w32-tcsh
34170 gsl session management not functional
39265 framewor Performance problem: binfilterdetect links against bf_svx
39795 Presenta paste OutPlace Object 1.0
36732 framewor notification of modified embedded objects doesn't work prope
37656 framewor sfx2/source/dialog/register.src: remove it completely
35195 framewor Accessibility: Package-Manager-GUI is not fully available by
40649 framewor tools->customize: entries containing ".uno:.." instead of co
8581 gsl bootstrap errors result in SEGV & no dialog ...
40591 udk jvmfwk: SUN JRE using native installer not found.
32958 framewor File-Open-Dialog: arrow-down-key shows the last opened file
36556 api osl_getExecutableFile() sometimes return a wrong path
40016 Word pro Numbering: Drag and Drop of Indent for a Numbering/Bullet Le
39855 Word pro Sometimes the Toolbar "Bullets and Numbering" popped up
39843 Word pro Can't open OLE object for editing in Excel
39746 Word pro Saving .sxw or odt file from 1.3 created file
39692 Word pro Reset button on Picture dialog messes-up controls
39653 Word pro inserting text or .doc file into frame freezes OOo1.9.65
38912 Word pro oo crashes when trying to open word document
38559 Word pro .sxw containning object group in header cannot be opened; wa
35497 framewor MAth object created from formula code initially has wrong si
37642 framewor Undo on deleting formula gives assertion
39491 framewor 'Display as Icon' on Further Objects is not working
38227 Word pro RTF import causes OpenOffice crash
25876 Word pro missing graphic if importing word document
41115 Word pro Word document crashes OOwriter
Fri Feb 4 03:15:30 -0800 2005
ID Comp Summary
40834 Word pro indent first line destroyed
40606 Word pro Lopp opening Word doc containing complex table
40527 Word pro Pictures lost after saving a document with a password
40348 Word pro Frame can't move by keyboard when 'Contents' is checked