As I have been tired to have to navigate to the issues query page on either OOo IssueZilla or Novell Bugzilla when I have a comment like #iXXXX#, I wrote a small Vim function to do it for me. Here is the script I have added to my .vimrc.

" Open …

While chatting this morning with Eric, I found out that I was using some gdb useful methods unknown to some other fellow developers. Here is are some links to help debugging OOo.

• An interesting forum thread giving two ways to easily print the content of STL containers
• gdb functions to …

Importing the text inside the shapes from docx files is a complex problem in OpenOffice.org. Most of the problem comes from the fact that there are two text engines in OOo like in older versions of Word:

• the Writer text engine used in the text documents and in the …

As I was tired to unzip my test .docx files to see what was inside, I decided to ask the web for a solution. I have been gladly surprised to see that Vim can natively open Zip files and change them. All I had to do is to tell Vim …

I'm currently working on importing the shapes' content of docx files in OpenOffice.org and I found some troubling differences between OOo and Word on this point.

• A shape Word can contain text, tables and other objects. A shape in OOo can only contain text; to have a table inside …

One of the other big areas for improvement in the docx files import is the import of the shapes, text boxes and other VML stuffs. The fact is simple: there is no shape imported yet! The challenge here is to reuse and expand some code of the oox module in …

The last weeks have been quite hard: I was working on difficult parts of the writerfilter and sw code. I was working on a patch to import the nested tables in the docx files. As you will be able to see it, the import is much better, even thought it …

Today I needed to see what happened in a Writer document. In order to do this I used gdb to explore the state of the SwDoc object. I was particularly interested in the nodes which where present, but checking the type, sub-type of all of them can be long. Then …

I had no time to write a post for each new fix I made this week, then here is a summary of what happened. Don't blame me for providing screenshots only for some very visible points instead of every fix.

Changes tracking import

This was and is still a big …

As I explained it in a previous post, I am working on fixing docx import in OpenOffice.org. I have fixed a bug on the pictures import recently. The patch fixes the issues i#97645 and i#96021. The i#96021 issue fix isn't complete yet, because it has something …