Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Ability to have Snap/Flatpak/etc. for bug hunting season

2020-05-09 Thread Dan Lewis
On 5/9/20 07:11, William Gathoye (LibreOffice) wrote: Hello everyone, While officially not in charge of LibreOfficeFR any more on Twitter, some people are requesting why we don't have Flatpak/Snap packages for prereleases versions as well? Some contributors aren't eager to test because instal

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] [ANN] LibreOffice 4.4.6 rc2 test builds available

2015-10-19 Thread Dan Lewis
On 10/15/2015 06:54 PM, Christian Lohmaier wrote: Hi *, for the upcoming new version 4.4.6 the builds for RC2 are now available on pre-releases. RC2 is available for Linux(deb) for 32 bit but not for 64 bit [That folder seems to be empty.] Dan It is a build in release-configuration,

[Libreoffice-qa] Bug #92434

2015-07-25 Thread Dan Lewis
I have downloaded 5.0.0.4 RC4 this morning. I will be checking this bug against it. If I find a problem, do I add a comment to the bug, or do I file a new bug? Two days ago, I added a comment to this bug after testing it against that day's daily build. The bug was still there. I reopened

[Libreoffice-qa] Bug 92434: relation design dialog LO 5.0.0.2

2015-06-29 Thread Dan Lewis
Willl someone check this out? When I use Base in 5.0.0.2, the relation design dialog causes LibreOffice to crash. This is true for the DEB versions (x86 AND x86_64). When I open the dialog, make a change, and close it; LibreOffice crashes. It does not matter if I save the changes or not.

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] [ANN] LibreOffice 4.2.7 RC1 test builds available

2014-10-05 Thread Dan Lewis
On 10/05/2014 11:56 AM, Robert Großkopf wrote: Hi Dan, Here are three bug report numbers: 72696, 82150, 82720. The first of these was mine and based upon 4.2.0.0 beta 2. (Bug 82151 is similar and has a list of 8 duplicate bug reports.) Have you tested it with LO 4.2.7.1? I have downloa

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] [ANN] LibreOffice 4.2.7 RC1 test builds available

2014-10-05 Thread Dan Lewis
On 10/05/2014 03:48 AM, Andras Timar wrote: On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 5:31 PM, Dan Lewis wrote: There was a bug (regression) involving Base first appearing in 4.0.0 and fixed in 4.3.2.1. My question: will the bug fix be back ported to 4.2.7? If not, then Base 4.2.7 is not of much use to

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Call of "Tools - Options - LibreOfficeDev Base - Connections" crashes master

2014-10-04 Thread Dan Lewis
In line post On 10/03/2014 09:42 AM, Thomas Hackert wrote: Hello @ll, while configuring my freshly downloaded and parallel installed (following the instructions from https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel) LO master on Debian Testing i686, I discovered the following: The

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] [ANN] LibreOffice 4.2.7 RC1 test builds available

2014-10-03 Thread Dan Lewis
On 10/03/2014 07:37 AM, Christian Lohmaier wrote: Hi *, for the upcoming new version 4.2.7, the builds for rc1 are now available on pre-releases (some Win-helppacks still uploading) 4.2.7 is the last planned released for the LibreOffice 4.2 codeline. See https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Re

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Call of "Tools - Options - LibreOfficeDev Base - Connections" crashes master

2014-10-03 Thread Dan Lewis
On 10/03/2014 09:42 AM, Thomas Hackert wrote: Hello @ll, while configuring my freshly downloaded and parallel installed (following the instructions from https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel) LO master on Debian Testing i686, I discovered the following: 1. Start LO 2. Go to

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Post Building MySQL connectors for 32 and 64 bit versions for LibreOffice 4.3 in Linux

2014-10-02 Thread Dan Lewis
On 10/02/2014 10:38 AM, Robert Großkopf wrote: Hi Dan, The mysql native connectors I uploaded earlier were both 32 bit. I apologize for that. The way Nabble names uploaded files were somewhat confusing to me, so I will try again. 32 bit mysql native connector: mysql-connector-x86.oxt

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Post Building MySQL connectors for 32 and 64 bit versions for LibreOffice 4.3 in Linux

2014-10-01 Thread Dan Lewis
The mysql native connectors I uploaded earlier were both 32 bit. I apologize for that. The way Nabble names uploaded files were somewhat confusing to me, so I will try again. 32 bit mysql native connector: mysql-connector-x86.oxt

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Post Building MySQL connectors for 32 and 64 bit versions for LibreOffice 4.3 in Linux

2014-10-01 Thread Dan Lewis
On 10/01/2014 12:10 PM, Thomas Hackert wrote: Hello Dan, * On Tuesday, 30. September 2014 20:30 ElderDanLewis wrote: The web page for the MySQL Native Connector to which i referred is http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center/mysql-native-connector ah, O.K. The last time I looked the

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Post Building MySQL connectors for 32 and 64 bit versions for LibreOffice 4.3 in Linux

2014-09-30 Thread Dan Lewis
Nabble is [email protected] if this helps. Dan On 09/30/2014 12:51 PM, Thomas Hackert wrote: Hello Dan, *, On Tuesday, 30. September 2014 14:52 Dan Lewis wrote: I have now built connectors for both versions which should work for both MySQL and mariadb since autogen includes

[Libreoffice-qa] Post Building MySQL connectors for 32 and 64 bit versions for LibreOffice 4.3 in Linux

2014-09-30 Thread Dan Lewis
I have now built connectors for both versions which should work for both MySQL and mariadb since autogen includes switches to include the mariadb library files. So, now I have some more questions: 1) How should they be numbered? I'm thinking that since they were built using LibreOffi

[Libreoffice-qa] Post Building MySQL connectors for 32 and 64 bit versions for LibreOffice 4.3 in Linux

2014-09-30 Thread Dan Lewis
I have now built connectors for both versions which should work for both MySQL and mariadb since autogen includes switches to include the mariadb library files. So, now I have some more questions: 1) How should they be numbered? I'm thinking that since they were built using LibreOffi

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] MySQL native connector for OS X

2014-09-30 Thread Dan Lewis
On 09/25/2014 03:44 AM, Bjoern Michaelsen wrote: On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 07:50:56PM -0400, Robinson Tryon wrote: On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 7:33 PM, Dan Lewis wrote: Ubuntu version. I seem to recall that build-dep did not install all of the required build environment for me and that I had to add

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] MySQL native connector for OS X

2014-09-24 Thread Dan Lewis
On 09/24/2014 07:50 PM, Robinson Tryon wrote: sudo apt-get install libgstreamer0.10-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev Thank you very much! I entered this in a command line and then reran autogen.sh successful. Dan ___ List Name: Libreoffice-

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] MySQL native connector for OS X

2014-09-24 Thread Dan Lewis
On 09/24/2014 07:57 AM, Alexander Thurgood wrote: Le 24/09/2014 11:45, Dan Lewis a écrit : Preliminary needed programs: 1) apt-cache search gnome-vfs 2) sudo apt-get install libgnome-vfsmm-2.6-dev Building the native connector 1) sudo apt-get install git 2) sudo apt

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] MySQL native connector for OS X

2014-09-24 Thread Dan Lewis
On 09/23/2014 10:40 PM, Dan Lewis wrote: On 09/22/2014 11:59 AM, Dan Lewis wrote: Can MySQL be accessed on an Apple computer using a native connector? If so, what is the URL for where it is located? If not, how can it be accessed and the URL for the connector's location? A coup

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] MySQL native connector for OS X

2014-09-23 Thread Dan Lewis
On 09/22/2014 11:59 AM, Dan Lewis wrote: Can MySQL be accessed on an Apple computer using a native connector? If so, what is the URL for where it is located? If not, how can it be accessed and the URL for the connector's location? A couple of years ago, I made a MySQL native conne

[Libreoffice-qa] MySQL native connector for OS X

2014-09-22 Thread Dan Lewis
Can MySQL be accessed on an Apple computer using a native connector? If so, what is the URL for where it is located? If not, how can it be accessed and the URL for the connector's location? A couple of years ago, I made a MySQL native connectors for Linux 32 and 64 bit. Should these be upd

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Critical bug Base: No refreshing and connection to subsubforms any more

2014-08-26 Thread Dan Lewis
On 08/22/2014 09:48 AM, Robert Großkopf wrote: Hi *, there seems to be a critical bug in Base since LO 4.3.0.0alpha. Three bugdescriptions ( https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82720 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82884 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82905 )

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Base 4.3.0.4 has serious problems with forms with subforms within subforms

2014-08-08 Thread Dan Lewis
ssage From: Joel Madero Date:08/04/2014 3:41 PM (GMT-05:00) To: Dan Lewis ,[email protected] Subject: Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Base 4.3.0.4 has serious problems with forms with subforms within subforms Sure thing - just link us to the bug report and make sure there are repro steps o

[Libreoffice-qa] Base 4.3.0.4 has serious problems with forms with subforms within subforms

2014-08-04 Thread Dan Lewis
The same embedded database with subforms within subforms will open and work properly using 4.2.6.2. I am using Debian x86_64 version. Specifically, the primary-foreign key pair are not joined within the form. If a query is created with all the controls of the form, all the information is vi

[Libreoffice-qa] Base Show stopper in LibreOffice 4.2 Beta2

2013-12-13 Thread Dan Lewis
I just filed a bug, but I was not given a number for it. I have a database three tables that are related. Table A has a foreign key linked to the primary key of Table B. Table B has a foreign key linked to the primary key of Table C. I created a form containing these three tables and adde

[Libreoffice-qa] Report Builder Bug #68190

2013-08-16 Thread Dan Lewis
I have just filed this bug about a property for header, Detail, and footer sections of the Report Builder. The problem is with the *Force New Page* property. This sets the page breaks for a report. For LibreOffice 4.1.0.4, the names used in this property do not match where the page breaks

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] [ANN] LibreOffice 4.1.0 RC4 test builds available for smoketesting

2013-07-26 Thread Dan Lewis
On 07/26/2013 07:48 AM, Petr Mladek wrote: (another attempt to post this to the mailing list) Dan Lewis píše v Čt 25. 07. 2013 v 11:55 -0400: There still seems to be a problem with 4.1.0.4 for Debian x86. I downloaded it for my Ubuntu laptop and then installed. It installs in /opt

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] [ANN] LibreOffice 4.1.0 RC4 test builds available for smoketesting

2013-07-25 Thread Dan Lewis
There still seems to be a problem with 4.1.0.4 for Debian x86. I downloaded it for my Ubuntu laptop and then installed. It installs in /opt/libreoffice4.1. However, when I click on soffice in the /opt/libreoffice4.1/program folder, version 4.0.3.3 appears when I click on Help > About Libre

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] [ANNOUNCE] libreoffice-4.1.0.0.alpha1 tag created

2013-05-09 Thread Dan Lewis
On 05/08/2013 06:19 PM, Pedro wrote: Hi all 1) Under Options, LibreOffice, Personalization there is a new setting: Background Image To which Background does this image apply? I assumed it would be the application background (when a document is not loaded)... If it is, then it doesn't work un

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Purposes for the Integer field types in LibO 4.0.2

2013-04-19 Thread Dan Lewis
Hello Robert, Thanks for the quick reply. You were right: I had a MySQL database when opened a table in Design View to see what the Field Types were in LO 4.0.2.2. I found MEDIUMINT when I searched my user guide for MySQL. It listed the lengths for these field types in terms of Bytes inste

[Libreoffice-qa] Purposes for the Integer field types in LibO 4.0.2

2013-04-19 Thread Dan Lewis
Below is a table of Field Types for Integers, their lengths and ranges as listed in the LibreOffice 4.0.2.2 Base Table Design dialog. /*Field Type name*/ /*Field Type*/ /*Length*/ /*Range*/ Tiny Integer [TINYINT] 3 -128 to 127 (s

[Libreoffice-qa] Bug 63388: Mail Merge Email

2013-04-10 Thread Dan Lewis
I have filed this bug because I can not get LibreOffice to test the settings I enter into Tools > Options > LibreOffice Writer > Main Merge. It freezes everytime. All the information I enter is copied from the Account Settings in Thunderbird. I have verified that the password I entered wil

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] [ANN] LibreOffice 3.6.6 RC2 available

2013-04-10 Thread Dan Lewis
On 04/10/2013 07:55 AM, Bjoern Michaelsen wrote: On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 09:36:20PM -0400, Dan Lewis wrote: Next question. Has there been a change in where LibreOffice is located? I installed LibreOffice 3.6.6.2 using the commands you gave me above. This installed it in /usr/lib

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] [ANN] LibreOffice 3.6.6 RC2 available

2013-04-09 Thread Dan Lewis
On 04/09/2013 03:37 PM, Bjoern Michaelsen wrote: Hi, On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 02:42:28PM -0400, Dan Lewis wrote: The ppa for 64 bit does not seem to work. The instructions for using ppa refer to using the command line. Yet, the technical information for the ppa is designed to be used

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] [ANN] LibreOffice 3.6.6 RC2 available

2013-04-09 Thread Dan Lewis
On 04/09/2013 02:11 PM, Bjoern Michaelsen wrote: Hi all, On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 09:15:33AM +0200, Thorsten Behrens wrote: The release is available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X from our QA builds download page at http://www.libreoffice.org/download/pre-releases/ ... and Ubuntu users can

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] talkyoo issues

2013-03-29 Thread Dan Lewis
On 03/29/2013 06:18 AM, Florian Effenberger wrote: No, unfortunately not - we cannot get SIP routing for these numbers, and if we were to buy numbers in foreign countries, it would cost a few hundred if not thousand EUR per month... Jonathan Aquilina wrote on 2013-03-28 23:47: I have a sugges

[Libreoffice-qa] Basic font for labels in a Base form

2013-03-28 Thread Dan Lewis
Edit a Base form using LibreOffice 4.0.2.2 (32 bit Debian). Control+right click a label in the form. Select Control from the context menu. Click the elliplse ( ... ) for the Font property. Click the Font tab in the Character dialog. Why is it that the Family font listed contains eight

[Libreoffice-qa] Questions about contents of an extension file (mysql-connector-ooo.oxt

2013-03-11 Thread Dan Lewis
I'm not sure to which mailing list this should go to. Perhaps someone could tell me. I have created a linux mysql-connector (x86 and .x86-64). There are things that I want to know about the contents of the extension. Questions about changing the "description.xml file in the extension: 1)

[Libreoffice-qa] proposed mysql-connector-ooo for 32 bit Linux for LibreOffice 4.X

2013-03-06 Thread Dan Lewis
I have built this connector while also building LibreOffice 4.0.1 alpha. I am also beginning the process to add it to the Extensions on the LO website. Since the previous 32 bit connector for mysql no longer works for 4.X, I wonder if this will change the information needed to make it ava

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Errors building MySQL-Connector

2013-02-25 Thread Dan Lewis
On 02/25/2013 07:34 AM, Rene Engelhard wrote: Hi, On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 08:59:02AM +0100, Alexander Thurgood wrote: 3) /./autogen.sh //--enable-ext-mysql-connector --with-system-mysql/ *Error*: /checking whether to build the MySQL Connector extension... yes checking for MySQL prerequisite

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] [libreoffice-users] Re: MySQL-Connector

2013-02-24 Thread Dan Lewis
On 02/24/2013 07:50 AM, Alex Thurgood wrote: Le 23/02/2013 03:12, Dan Lewis a écrit : Used git to download the master build. Ran autogen.sh --with-ext-mysql-connector --with-system-mysq Ran make dev-install Made ooenv executable and ran it. Ran soffice in the program folder of my new alpha

[Libreoffice-qa] Errors building MySQL-Connector

2013-02-24 Thread Dan Lewis
What I have been able to do using a command line: 1. cd ~/Downloads/LO-Build/ 2. git clone git://gerrit.libreoffice.org/core libo I can download the master build into this folder: ~/Downloads/LO-Build/ with no problems. The rest is starting over, the things I have tried, and the

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] [libreoffice-users] Re: MySQL-Connector

2013-02-22 Thread Dan Lewis
On 02/22/2013 08:24 AM, Alex Thurgood wrote: Le 22/02/2013 14:02, Dan Lewis a écrit : Hi Dan, Some very good news!!! ... and some questions. Last evening, I deleted the libo folder and basically began again using git. I let "make" run overnight. This morning, I accide

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] [libreoffice-users] Re: MySQL-Connector

2013-02-22 Thread Dan Lewis
On 02/21/2013 03:09 AM, Alex Thurgood wrote: Le 20/02/2013 23:16, Dan Lewis a écrit : Hi Dan, checking for GCONF... yes checking whether to enable GNOME VFS support... yes checking for GNOMEVFS... no configure: error: Package requirements (gnome-vfs-2.0 >= 2.6.0 ) were not met: No pack

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Bug 61166: Base since LO 4.0 unusable with correlating subqueries

2013-02-21 Thread Dan Lewis
On 02/21/2013 11:46 AM, Robert Großkopf wrote: Hi *, is there anybody, who could have a look at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61166 ? EDITING: Values in correlated subquery were not shown in queries. You only have to download a file and start two queries. With LO up to 3.6 you se

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] REMINDER: Release 4.0.1.2 from libreoffice-4-0-1 branch

2013-02-21 Thread Dan Lewis
On 02/21/2013 09:16 AM, Petr Mladek wrote: Hi, please note that the commit deadline for 4.0.1.2, aka rc2, is already on Monday, February 25, 2013. It will be used as LO-4.0.1 final if no blocker is reported. IMPORTANT: There are not two weeks between rc1 and rc2 this time. It is another side ef

[Libreoffice-qa] MySQL Native Connector for 32 bit LibreOffice on Ubuntu 12.04

2013-02-20 Thread Dan Lewis
I have a 32 bit laptop running Ubuntu 12.04. On it I have installed LO 3.6.5.2 and 4.0.0.3. This evening I was going to built LO 4.0.0 with the native connector for MySQL. In the process I had to download some files needed for autogen.sh to work properly. Among these are two groups.

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Stagnant NEEDINFO bugs

2013-02-06 Thread Dan Lewis
On 02/06/2013 09:50 AM, Robert Großkopf wrote: Hi Alex, After suffering from the last two mass closure / re-initialisations of status of a fair number of bugs I had spent time in opening, but for lack of a dedicated developer / interest in those particular areas of LO at the time (OSX bugs, Base

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Weird crash of LO 4.0.0 RC2 on starting Python and Java wizards

2013-01-28 Thread Dan Lewis
On 01/28/2013 03:49 AM, Jean-Baptiste Faure wrote: Hi all, Please, could you try to reproduce the crash I described in the bug report 59931 : https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59931 For the moment I am alone who can reproduce this bug ... Best regards. JBF Sorry, but LO 4.0.0.2

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Bug 59481 - FILEOPEN: Linux rpm: Native MySQL-connector aoo-my-sdbc-1.1.0 didn't work any more with LO 4.0

2013-01-21 Thread Dan Lewis
On 01/21/2013 11:55 AM, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 11:17:20AM -0500, Terrence Enger wrote: On Fri, 2013-01-18 at 08:04 -0800, Joel Madero wrote: Can someone triage this one? Thanks in advance! And there has been quit a bit of subsequent discussion. I wonder just what Lio

[Libreoffice-qa] Spam on this mailing list

2013-01-19 Thread Dan Lewis
Can someone do something about the spam that is being sent to [email protected]? --Dan ___ List Name: Libreoffice-qa mailing list Mail address: [email protected] Change settings: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailma

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Bug 59481 - FILEOPEN: Linux rpm: Native MySQL-connector aoo-my-sdbc-1.1.0 didn't work any more with LO 4.0

2013-01-19 Thread Dan Lewis
On 01/19/2013 03:43 AM, Robert Großkopf wrote: Hello Dan, I have reported https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59481 (FILEOPEN: Linux rpm: Native MySQL-connector aoo-my-sdbc-1.1.0 didn't work any more with LO 4.0) and https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59516 (FILEOPEN: Native M

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Bug 59481 - FILEOPEN: Linux rpm: Native MySQL-connector aoo-my-sdbc-1.1.0 didn't work any more with LO 4.0

2013-01-18 Thread Dan Lewis
On 01/18/2013 11:04 AM, Joel Madero wrote: Can someone triage this one? Thanks in advance! Best Regards, Joel I looked through the bugs reports for possible duplication. I found 59481 (Linux 32 bit RPM) which is this one, 59533 (Windows 32 bit), and 59516 (Windows 32 bit). All of them

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Impress bug

2012-12-15 Thread Dan Lewis
Yes, I'm believe it is fixed. I opened the presentation using LO 3.6.4.3 and got the same logo that you did. It did mess it up that is for sure. LO 4.0 Beta shows the logo as it should be; LO 3.6.4.3 does not. --Dan On 12/15/2012 01:33 PM, Karl Leo wrote: Dear Cor, thanks for your help!

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Impress bug

2012-12-15 Thread Dan Lewis
On 12/15/2012 06:43 AM, Karl Leo wrote: Dear friends, I have recently switched from Windows to Linux and, sadly, the programme which might force me (a very frequent presenter) back to Windows will be Libreoffice Impress - for two reasons: a) it crashes way too often... b) It has a nasty bug wh

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] 4.0 Test week/marathon Re: [...-qa] 3.7 bug hunt party ?

2012-12-06 Thread Dan Lewis
Perhaps a little bit OT, but what is the correct link to download the 4.0.0 Beta? Below I saw "Beta1 build is in progress. Linux and MAC packages are even already available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/pre-releases/"; but the only Beta available at this link is for the Intel Mac.

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] 4.0 Test week/marathon Re: [...-qa] 3.7 bug hunt party ?

2012-12-03 Thread Dan Lewis
random test for it, and all of them had locks. Seems to me that there should be more than 3. There is the creation of a database from beginning to end. What about modifying an existing database? What about connecting to a database such as MySQL, HSQLDB, text, spreadsheet, etc.? --Dan Lewis Li

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Second Opinion - FDO#54981 FILEOPEN: Libre office can't open a MS Access database 2003.

2012-10-19 Thread Dan Lewis
On 10/19/2012 03:37 PM, Joel Madero wrote: I need a second opinion on this one. Thanks all https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54981 Regards, Joel -- *Joel Madero* LibO QA Volunteer [email protected] I use Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. I installed the MDBT

[Libreoffice-qa] New member

2012-10-05 Thread Dan Lewis
I am Dan Lewis, who is writing chapters for the Base Guide. In doing so, I use Base of the latest versions of LO. This reveals bugs in it. I have filed a few bug reports including one this morning. Writing is my priority, but I can also apply what I have learned when I have time when it