Here is my weekly update on what is hot in our development teams in calendar week (CW) 11.

IN FOCUS

ODF Toolkit: .net module available

“AODL (An OpenDocument Library)
AODL is the .net module of the ODF Toolkit. The library is completly written in pure C# and can be used to extend your .net based software to support the OpenDocument Format. To use AODL within your projects respectively software there is no need of a deep knowlegde of the OpenDocument Format itself. It would be helpfull to understand what's going behind the scenes and for writing your own extensions, but as mentioned before this isn't a fundamental requirement.

Up to now, the following fundamental operations are supported by AODL:
* Creating new documents in the text and the spreadsheet format.
* Loading and manipulating documents in the text and spreadsheet (not complete yet) format.
* Export loaded or created documents into the HTML format (text and spreadsheet documents).
* Export loaded or created documents into the PDF Format. (this is in an early state of implementation and only available for text documents)

Further information:
Take a look at this page to see a complete list of existing features.
The AODL FAQ (where to get the source, requirements, ..)
AODL code examples / snippets
The ODF Toolkit Wiki page.
The ODF Toolkit project homepage on the OpenOffice.org website.”

Source: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/AODL

WEEKLY SCHEDULE

• ALL TEAMS

  • Started:

    • -

  • Ongoing:

    • OOo bug fixing

    • Handling of high score stack traces

  • Finished:

    • -

• CALC
  http://sc.openoffice.org/

  • Started:

    • -

  • Ongoing:

    • GETPIVOTDATA function

    • Office 12 import filter

    • ODF formula specification

    • Support for tables in Impress

  • Finished:

    • -

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

  • Started:

    • OOo bug fixing

  • Ongoing:

    • -

  • Finished:

    • chart2: CWS chart2mst3 is in QA

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

  • Started:

    • API for DesignMode ON/OFF

  • Ongoing:

    • OOo bug fixing

  • Finished:

    • separate module/UI/configuration definitions for Text Documents, Database Forms, and XML Form Documents

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

  • Started:

    • Chart support for 3d objects

  • Ongoing:

    • Graphite support

    • Table suppport in Impress

    • Office 12 XML import infrastructure and implemenation

    • Text support for drawing layer primitives

    • Simple Canvas

    • ResId Cleanup

  • Finished:

    • Office 12 XML Filter milestone planning

    • Using SlideShow Z-order for shape transitions

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

  • Started:

    • Writer: Rectangular selection mode

    • Framework: Web-HTML feature (from RedFlag)

  • Ongoing:

    • ODF: Review of Specs

    • Writer: OOXML Import: Tokenizer

    • Writer: Review of SmartTags API

    • Writer/Math: Evaluation of requirements in Issuetracker

    • Writer: Asynchronous loading of linked graphics

    • Writer: Make code warning free

    • Writer: Rectangular selection mode

    • Linguistic: Review of API for Grammar Checking

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

    • Framework: Centralize management of caption bar titles

    • Framework: Example component for an embedded object implemented in Java

  • Finished:

    • -

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

  • Started Tasks:

    • Concept for standalone stringtable resources

  • Ongoing Tasks:

    • New com.sun.star.beans API tests

    • NetBeans Integration: Addon Wizard

    • Netbeans Integration: Debug Support

    • Office Bean: Fix focus problems in GTK environment

    • Extensions infrastructure: Extendable OO.o Help System: Finalize specification; Extension Manager Backend for Help Content

    • Extensions Infrastructure: Preferences Dialogs for Extensions: Finalize Specification

    • Extensions infrastructure: API for accessing the root URL of an installed extension

    • Developers Guide: Create new, up-to-date version and put it on api.openoffice.org website

    • Developers Guide: New chapter for UNO-AWT

    • SDK Tests: Transform manual tests to fully automatic tests

    • BrOffice

  • Finished:

    • -

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

  • Started:

    • -

  • Ongoing:

    • OASIS ODF 1.2 Specification Document

    • ODF 1.2 Specification enhancements: Formular

    • ODF Specification enhancements: Metadata

  • Finished:

    • -

• ODF TOOLKIT
  http://odftoolkit.openoffice.org/

  • Started:

    • -

  • Ongoing:

    • Restructuring of OOo packages: concept phase

    • Providing samples and best practice code in Java

    • Providing samples and best practice code in C#

  • Finished:

    • Restructuring of OOo packages: prototype for evaluation of separation of core and branding

• VISUAL DESIGN
  http://ui.openoffice.org/VisualDesign/

  • Started:

    • -

  • Ongoing:

    • Overview of missing High Contrast icons for testing

    • OOo branded template for Marketing

  • Finished:

    • Summary of Chart Default Color Voting

    • New Base icons