OOo4Kids Changelog

What's new in OOo4Kids 1.31r1444 Build 131

May 13, 2013
  • Added :
  • Annotation mode improvement : improved the new contextual menu (=> see this blog entry)
  • New graphical formats with Impress and Draw (reusing Rob Snelder idea, but needs yet some improvements) , new modes are 4:3, 16:9 et 16:10
  • Interest : suppression of the black bands on the boarder when the screen is not 4:3
  • Presenter Screen localization (french completed).
  • By default : CTRL + "space" makes the font size of the selected text grow (works only when the font size is uniq for the moment).
  • By defaults : CTRL + "-" makes the font size of the selected text shrink (works only when the font size is uniq for the moment).
  • 7 MB binary enlightment in libicudata (remove of some unused features)
  • Replacement of the Berkeley DB (yet 2 MB saved).
  • Writerperfect upgrade, accordingly with the last libwpd-0.9.4 changes
  • Fixed various Windows build issues due to the new features coming with libwpd-0.9.4. FIXME : complete the implementation.
  • libwpd upgrade with 0.9.4 version + little personnal fix (avoid warnings)
  • security fix around .png file format handling
  • security fix around .jpg file format handling
  • Now using hunspell 1.3.1 (previous version : 1.2.8)
  • Now using hyphen 2.7.1 (previous version 2.4)
  • Archlinux : use of libwpd-0.9 from system (internal version is now 0.9.4 ).
  • 17 MB won with all changes for the Windows version (improvement really visible at launch)
  • Fixed Bugs :
  • Big reduction of the memory fooprint (probably leaking a lot): when changing the slides, the annotations where duplicated at every back/forward move.
  • Default pen size is now : average
  • Default eraser size is now : average
  • Eraser mode : contextual menu items order is now optimized
  • Changing the slides ( needs yet some improvement )
  • the current mode is kept when going to next / previous slide. If pen mode -> pen is available in the next slide
  • the current mode is kept when stopping the diaporama, and restarting it without quit OOo4Kids / OOoLight.
  • the pen size is the same when changing the slide
  • same thing for the eraser size (if eraser mode selected)
  • the color dialog is now correctly initialized, and it's far easier to pick / change the pen color.
  • Other bugs fixed:
  • Better synchronization between first slide and annotations (was an offset)
  • figure out why annotations are not visible when going backward to previous slide
  • SAL (system abstraction layer) upgrade. The code is now aligned with OOo3.4.0 source code)
  • Memory access protection (multi-core access on ARM). Thanks to Jani Monoses from Canonical
  • Memory leak fixed in avmedia.
  • Lot of progress and improvement for the Haiku port. A big thank you to Olivier Coursiere for his work.
  • Debian GNU/Linux packaging improvement (lighter .deb, reordered internal hierarchy)
  • Fixed severe hunspell build issues under Windows
  • Work in progress : multi localized archive (Linux) for Emmabuntu (Thanks to Patrick, from the EmmaĆ¼s community)
  • AmigaOS port improvement (in progress).
  • Added Polish in the supported locales list.
  • Various corrections for the Dutch version
  • Various corrections for the Italian version
  • FIXME : improved word counting for Chinese (traditional and simplified).
  • Fixed a build issue with gcc-4.7. Thanks to Fabien Rendu who reported the problem.
  • Modified tools.hxx (slideshow) in order to use boost::hash
  • Modified boost to deliver the right headers.
  • Modifications allowing gcc-4.7 use (r1453)