Month: October 2010

Key binding compatibility options (take 2)

Kohei Yoshida1 Comment

This post is a sequel to this previous post, so refer to that post for the detail of what I’ve been working on.

Anyway, I have settled with the following Compatibility option page:

calc-compat-option

which should be just adequate for what it needs to do without being too annoying.

Also, just for the matter of documenting its behavior, the following chart shows what actions are associated with what key bindings for the two key binding types (Default and OpenOffice.org legacy):

Key Binding Default OpenOffice.org legacy
Backspace delete contents delete
Delete delete delete contents
Ctrl-D fill down data select
Shift-Ctrl-D data select –

where the actions are

  • delete contents – launch the delete contents dialog.
  • delete – immediately delete the cell content, without the dialog.
  • fill down – fill cell content downward within selection.
  • data select – launch the selection list dialog.

Note that all the other key bindings are left untouched. Also, the list of key bindings that can get reset by this functionality may grow in future releases.

mdds 0.3.1

Kohei Yoshida

I’m happy to announce the release of version 0.3.1 of the Multi-Dimensional Data Structure (mdds). This is a bug fix release, and contains no major changes from the previous version (0.3.0). The highlights of this release are:

  • use of autoconf tool, to allow you to run ./configure && sudo make install to install the library, and
  • drop the requirement for C++0x support, by using equivalent features from the boost library which mdds already depends on.

When using this library without the C++0x support, however, you need to define the MDDS_HASH_CONTAINER_BOOST compiler macro in order for the mdds library to use boost’s hash_containers, instead of the ones from C++0x. Similarly, you can define the MDDS_HASH_CONTAINER_STLPORT to force mdds to use stlport’s hash containers instead.

I will briefly explain the incompatible support of hash containers various libraries. Originally, the stlport library supported two hash containers, hash_map and hash_set, in the std namespace which can be used as hashed replacements of std::map and std::set, respectively. In C++0x, however, these two containers have been renamed to unordered_map and unordered_set which are still in the std namespace. Boost also provides unordered_map and unordered_set, but they are in the boost namespace. The change that this release contains should hopefully be useful when dealing with this incompatible hash container situation in various libraries.

This release contains patches from David Tardon and Phillip Thomas, who fixed various bits of the Makefile script. Phillip also helped me fix the rpm spec file. Thanks a lot!

Key binding compatibility options

Kohei Yoshida9 Comments

As I posted on the libreoffice development list, I’m currently working on adding a new option page in the Options dialog, to provide a quick way to switch key bindings between LibreOffice’s default and OpenOffice.org’s for Calc. For the most part, the default key bindings are identical between LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org as far as Calc’s concerned, but there are some differences, which are enough to annoy those users who are accustomed to the old key bindings from OOo Calc.

The option page will look something like this:
calc-key-binding-compat

but it will not look exactly like this since this is just my first viewable version with no design effort put into it at all. So, hopefully we can morph this into something a little more usable and a little more bearable.

Right now, we only deal with key binding compatibility; however, we may expand this page to incorporate other compatibility options in future versions of LibreOffice.

Stay tuned!