How to install OpenOffice on your Mac ?

Really simple, to see how to do that, watch the following recording:
http://www.screenjelly.com/watch/2uEiQU8UPqE

Enjoy OpenOffice as your everyday productivity suite !

Mac Address Book Integration : a Google Summer Of Code success !

The Google Summer of Code 2007 gave the possibility to integrate a new very good developer : Omer Bar-or.

His work for the "Mac OSX Address Book integration" is complete and successful !

Thank you very much Omer !

The code produced is currently under QA and will be integrated as soon as possible.

I hope Omer will be able and willing to continue working with the Mac Aqua porting team, as everyone has appreciated the quality of his work and relationships.

Have a good day !

Sebastien Plisson
aka plipli@openoffice.org

End of the first day of OO.org Aqua Mac porters at WWDC07

What a great day we had here in WWDC07 :

- Great keynote, sessions about all kind of new stuff
- Very interesting upcoming labs : Core text, Carbon and Cocoa binding, etc
- Enthusiast contacts from the Mac community
- Experts and Apple famous engineers everywhere you look at : open and ready to help us


To be continued...

Here are a few pics of our great team representatives :-) :
Par ici les photos

Sebastien Plisson,
aka Mac OO.org reporter at WWDC07 ;-)

First keynote, first questions : Meeting point

Here we are.
Keynote was great. Now back to OO.org work before afternoon session on tech spec of Leopard.

We have to fix a meeting point for OO.org Mac team, for people who'd like to talk with us and DEVELOPERS who
would be ready to help us to make the Mac port faster !

So OpenOffice.org Mac team meeting point will be at 3rd floor just in front of the stairs on right side tables.

We are 3 at WWDC so we will try to attend sessions , labs and be at meeting point as often as possible.

Do not hesitate to contact us to set a meeting during WWDC07 : email and/or IRC Channel : #ooo_macport (irc.freenode.net)

Eric Bachard, OpenOffice.org Mac team Co-lead : ericb@openoffice.org - ericb at irc
Philip Lohmann, OpenOffice.org Sun Microsystems : pl@openoffice.org, pl at irc
Sebastien Plisson, OpenOffice.org & Veodia inc. : plipli@openoffice.org, plipli at irc

HIFramework on air : do you smell Aqua's OOo ?

Finally released my working portion of code integrating Apple's HIFramework into VCL aqua layer.
By now, we'll have s solid base (as soon as it wil be clean) to build quickly OOo Aqua VCL : helpers, registering mecanism, event handlers will help us a lot to implement all the native controls we need !
Good day for aqua team : let's continue this way !

Tuning Aqua on the OOo !

Working on reengineering events for windows and controls, I've finally succeeded in integrating Apple's HIFramework piece of code.
It provides helpers to manage events for the HIObjects : HIViews and natives Controls.
My goal is to provide a clean and powerful base to support the complete native aqua control implementation that has been started some times ago by the Mac Aqua OpenOffcie.org team.
With our great developers and new ones joining us, I'm confident that we'll do enormous progress to build the Alpha public release.

If you're waiting for a native Aqua loook'n feel, tending to follow Apple's HIG, OpenOffice.org 2.2 version of your preferred office suite : stay tuned !

SalTimer, Aqua, Events and Co

Working on refresh and events handler recoding, in aquavcl01, I had questions about the role of SalTimer events. Philip Lohman answered to the mac port team and I got lights on this part of OOo.

Now I see how I will sanely plug my work on native MacOSX drawing events (windows and HIView controls).

Hopefully, SalTimer will not be used anymore for drawing in aquavcl01. We will use compositing to manage hidden/shown part of windows, thus BitmapContext should become useless too.

I'll work hard to deliver a patch to the mac@OO, before the mid-april...

Sebastien PLISSON
aka plipli@openoffice.org