Here is my weekly update on what is hot in our development teams in calendar week (CW) 45.

IN FOCUS

The new Chart application

Please check out the Current - Milestone9b - Beta Respin

“New and changed features in the chart re-implementation:

• New Chart Wizard ( Issue 20344)

  • The creation of charts is simplified by a new wizard with live preview ( Specification in progress)

• Flexible Source Ranges ( Issue 3997)

  • You can choose data ranges for single parts of single series now separately. Especially you can select different x-values for different series ( Specification)

• Easier settings for 3D charts ( Issue 14202, Issue 27357)

  • There is only one dialog for 3D settings now containing more easy access to simple and realistic look and simplified perspective settings ( Specification)

• Enhance logarithmic scales ( Issue 26869)

  • For logarithmic axis you now can choose minimum, maximum and major intervals as you like. ( Specification)

• Pie segment offset for 3D charts ( Issue 20321)

  • It's now possible to drag out single 3D pie segments and donut segments also.

• Enhanced automatic scaling ( Issue 30426)

  • The automatic minimum and maximum values for axis have been improved thus charts look nicer.

• Improved automatic axis label layout

• Improved selection handling

• Regression curves are now also available for 2D line charts, 2D bar and column charts and 2D area charts

• Additional sub chart types: 2D Lines subtype 'points only', 2D net subtype 'points only', 3D XY, 3D smooth lines, 3D donut“

Source: New and changed features in the chart re-implementation

WEEKLY SCHEDULE

• ALL TEAMS

  • Started:

    • -

  • Ongoing:

    • OOo 2.1 bug fixing

  • Finished:

    • -

• CALC
  http://sc.openoffice.org/

  • Started:

    • Removing old Chart code

  • Ongoing:

    • ODF formula specification

    • Integrate locale data from OOo community

    • Specification for automatic scaling

    • Import Pivot Tables with external data

  • Finished:

    • Missing arguments in formulas

• CHART
  http://graphics.openoffice.org/chart/chart.html

  • Started:

    • Performance optimizations

  • Ongoing:

    • Milestone 10 development (Integration Candidate Version of chart reimplementation)

    • Clipboard: Copy/paste whole chart

  • Finished:

    • Milestone 9 (Beta Version of chart reimplementation) available for download: http://graphics.openoffice.org/chart/chart.html

    • Specification Finalization: Object Naming

• DATABASE
  http://dba.openoffice.org/

  • Started:

    • Implement an optional help section in the Object Inspector

  • Ongoing:

    • OOo 2.1 bug fixing

  • Finished:

    • -

• IMPRESS, DRAW & GRAPHIC SYSTEM LAYER
  http://graphics.openoffice.org/
  http://gsl.openoffice.org/

  • Started:

    • -

  • Ongoing:

    • Impress view API for components finalization

    • Slideshow z-order for shapes

    • Handling of high score stack traces

    • Further design of an awt tree control API and implemenation

    • UNO API for drawing layer primitives

    • PDF export enhancements

    • Using Vtune to collect data for XML load/save metrics/view API performance

  • Finished:

    • -

• WRITER, MATH & FRAMEWORK
  http://sw.openoffice.org/
  http://framework.openoffice.org/

  • Started:

    • -

  • Ongoing:

    • Word Import Filter: Import of Tables

    • Core Development: Design of Table Model supporting all ODF tables and Word tables

    • Linguistic: Integration of component for language guessing

    • Linguistic: Review of API for Grammar Checking

    • Warning Free Code Math

    • Warning Free Code Linguistic

    • Framework: Testtool support for dynamic popups

    • MS Interop: Design changes for Numbering/Outlines

    • Framework: DockingWindows in LayoutManager (preparation for usage in extensions)

  • Finished:

    • Linguistic: Integration of OOo Hyphenator,Thesaurus into StarOffice

• PROGRAMMABILITY
  http://api.openoffice.org/
  http://udk.openoffice.org/
  http://installation.openoffice.org/
  http://util.openoffice.org/
  http://ucb.openoffice.org/

  • Started Tasks:

    • -

  • Ongoing Tasks:

    • NetBeans Integration: Component Wizard, IDL Type Wizard

    • Developer Tools: Improvements for Object Inspector: Java Code Generation

    • Setup: Java GUI installer for OO.o

    • Developers Guide: New chapter for UNO-AWT

    • Extensions infrastructure: Extendable help

    • Extensions Infrastructure: Localization Support for Dialog Editor

    • Extensions infrastructure: Online update for extensions

    • Extensions infrastructure: System integration for OXT extensions

    • Online Update: draft of new update notification protocol

    • New UNO-AWT control: Animation Control (first usage in new progress dialog for online update)

    • Online update: new progress/download dialog

    • Windows Vista Support for OO.o

    • Accessibility: Enhanced support for text attributes in ATK bridge

    • Extensions: Integrate automatic extension installation test into Office' smoketest script.

    • SDK Tests: Transform manual tests to fully automatic tests.

  • Finished:

    • -

• ODF / XML
  http://xml.openoffice.org/

  • Started:

    • -

  • Ongoing:

    • ODF 1.1 Specification enhancements: Accessibility

    • ODF Specification enhancements: Formular

    • ODF Specification enhancements: Metadata

  • Finished:

    • -