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Start OpenOffice.org - 1.0b9

launcher for OpenOffice.org apps/docs

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This Version:	Not rated (0.0)
Current Version:	1.0b9
Release Date:	2004-05-16
License:	Freeware
Downloads (this version):	4,175
Downloads (all versions):	12,368

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Product Description:

"Start OpenOffice.org" is a double-clickable Mac OS X application that allows the user to easily open documents created by the "OpenOffice.org" productivity suite of applications. It also provides an easy way to just launch "OpenOffice.org". Localized for US English and French.

What's new in this version:

Fix problem with the "Application.applescript" and "Utility.applescript" scripts being too long to edit with Script Editor - moved some handlers around, removed unused code etc, and created new "ChangeHistory.applescript" file.
Add support for Mac OS X 10.3.x Fast User Switching feature - each user has a different X11 DISPLAY. Original patches provided by Randolph Brown and others; support added to handle the actual X11 DISPLAY being used at runtime.
Add Preferences dialog field for the preferred X11 DISPLAY.
No longer need Direct to PostScript option.
Add support for handling files with special shell characters and Unicode characters in their filenames. Based on idea by Roger Jolly.
Add support for checking for updates, using MacPAD.
Add support for localized MacPAD messages.
Conditionally support the MacPAD "barber-pole" progress bar at runtime for different versions of Mac OS X.
Add additional User Defaults, including default "OpenOffice.org" module name.
No longer set DYLD_LIBRARIES_PATH.
Check if BSD tools are installed.
Default "OpenOffice.org" version to "OpenOffice.org" v1.1.x.
Add support for special handling of "-net" installs and "-net" workstation installs.
Launch "OpenOffice.org" document (if any), separately, after launching "OpenOffice.org" itself, to work around weird problems when documents have special shell chars in their name.
Major changes for handling paths and URLs.
Tidy-up debugging.
Fix bug with handling fonts dragged to "Start OpenOffice.org" after launch, if "soffice" has never been run (perhaps because of a X Window Server launch error).
Change Mac OS X 10.1.x hack to be an AppleScript Studio hack for older Mac OS X (< 10.2.3).
Increase wait time from 5-10 secs to 30 secs and improve checking for "OpenOffice.org" launch, as "OpenOffice.org" v1.1.x "pagein" process can take a long time on a slow machine before the "soffice" process is running.
Put up "Please Wait..." floating window before time consuming operations; automatically hide the window when choosing a X Window Server or when an error Alert is up.
Make "isProcessRunning" handler only look at processes for this user; and ignore "zombies".
Merge French localization resources from Yves de Champlain.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.3
Mac OS X 10.2
Mac OS X 10.1

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.1.2 or newer (tested with 10.1.5, 10.2, 10.2.3, 10.2.6, 10.3, 10.3.3)
BSD Subsystem (command line utilities - installed by default with Mac OS X)
X11 X Window system (tested with "XFree86" v4.2.0, v4.2.1.1, v4.3.0, v4.4.0)
X11 X Window server (tested with "XDarwin" v1.1, v1.1.1.1, v1.2, v1.3; "OroborOSX" v0.8b2, v0.8.5, v0.90; "X11" Beta v0.1, v0.2, v0.3; v1.0)
X11 X Window window manager (tested with "windowmaker" v0.62.1X; "OroborOSX" v0.8b2, v0.8.5, v0.90; "quartz-wm" Beta v0.1, v0.2, v0.3; v1.0)
"dlcompat" compatibility library (optional for Mac OS X 10.3.x or OpenOffice.org v1.1.1rc3 and later - tested with v10505X, v20020913-10.2, v20030629)
"freetype" (optional - tested with v1.3.1X - libfreetype v6.2, v6.3)
"fondu" (optional - tested with v021223, v040324)
"ghostscript" (optional - tested with espghostscript-7.05.5)
"OpenOffice.org" (tested with v1.0.1 Alpha, v1.0.1 Beta, v1.0.1 Final Beta, v1.0.3, v1.1rc5, v1.1.1rc3, v1.1.2rc)
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OpenOffice.org 2.0 - Version: 1.0b9, 2/21/2006 04:25AM PST

HansBR.old

Unfortunatly it does not work for me with OpenOffice.org 2.0.
The Developer Site is unaccessable. A pity, for the time invested for
this nice piece of software. Sorry
Hans

Works beautifully! - Version: 1.0b8, 6/8/2003 08:32AM PST

kevmck

Thanks for this excellent "missing link" application. This utiliity makes OpenOffice viable for even novice users. Works as advertised!

A title... - Version: 1.0b8, 6/7/2003 05:27PM PST

NoZen-X

"The application Start OpenOffice.org has unexpectedly quit. No other applications have been affected." I've gotten that message 6 times now when trying to use this program... Oh well... time to give up :(