OOffice Looking Candidate
Manette.be - December 13th, 2007
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Archive for the ‘News’ Category There is a news item on the blog of Oliver Ruiz Dorantes. He states he now have all the necessary widgets in the libwalter library to construct a Look-Only basic OOffice prototype (no real coding underneath). [UPDATE-071216] Oliver himself drop in a comment to tell us that I was wrong in some ways. The text rendering is made by the software and all the text and style modifications (font color, size, … ) is actually done using the application itself. The format can also be changed using the controls ! He also added that “…unless saving and loading capabilities.. would be usable now…” (This time, I’m happy to be wrong :-) Here is the Looking Candidate running in Haiku.
On his blog you can also find a picture of the prototype running in BeOS as well as some information about the widgets being used.
Begasus, a fellow belgian Haiku/Zeta lover, recently posted a news on zeta-games.com about the state of running some games under Haiku. He downloaded haiku build rev. 23000, installed the required libraries and here is the result (tuxmath, ri-li, tictactoe and heroes):
You can see Angband, TuxPaint and abe are also running in haiku over here. Begasus explains most libraries can be found in the libpak on BeBits and in the zeta-games.com’s libraries section. Also Remi, of BeOSfrance, interviewed (in french) Stephane, the author of an old BeOS shoot-em-up called NoGravity. At the moment he still develops the V3X 3D engine on the Windows and Mac platforms and the NoGravity game is in the process to be updated to the new engine. To the question about what should be implemented to see his products coming back to our beloved platform Stephane answered this:
How interresting it is to see Haiku is reaching, step by step, a phase in wich problems of 3rd party applications development begin to show up. Yes, slowly Haiku is running finer and finer as an OS and the fact there are new needs and problems to be solved is a good news IMHO :-)
Another quick update on the BeGeistert “Phoenix” event which will take place at Dusseldorf Germany the 12-13 january 2008 (if you want to attend something before the FOSDEM ;-). A Coding Session will be set up during the event to wich famous Haiku’ers have already told they will attend: Ithamar R. Ademar, Stephan Aßmus, Axel Dörfler, Jérôme Duval, Michael Lotz, Marcus Overhagen, François Revol and Oliver Tappe. You feel your fingers need to code, join the crew !
Another Haikuware bounty story. Oliver Ruiz Dorantes published earlier a little post to update us on the advancement in the coding of the bluetooth stack for Haiku. He posted UML diagrams about the classes and the bluetooth server <-> kit interaction as well as some communication scenarios. He ask for comments and suggestions on this as well as on the stuff he commited recently. Keep the good work dude :-) !
As you can read on the Haiku-OS web site there are some news about the progress of the WebKIT port (an open source web browser engine used in Safari and inherited from KHTML / Konqueror). Ryan “leavengood” Leavengood, which applied the Haikuware’s bounty for the port, recently posted a report about the progress at this stage. The post relates the achievements but also ask for help. Indeed this is a huge task to be handled alone and naturally Ryan starts feeling stressed instead of having fun with the coding. So, he published the source code and gave some explaination about how to work on the haiku web port so other developpers can join and help him continue the port. Two devs, Marcus Jacob and Andrea Anzani, already get on board. If this adventure thrill you up, get on board ! For what concerns the bounty, he let people decide, based on the code and progress report provided , if or how much he deserve for the advancement. At this time the HaikuLauncher is running in an extremely basic form to test WebCore but no screenshot can be shown because of an irreductible bug still very difficult to be squashed :-)
It has been confirmed, Haiku will attend this years’ FOSDEM. François “mmu_man” Revol is the one who has asked for the booth and received one to be shared with the OpenAguila.org project (an open source company management software for very small to medium sized enterprises). So, what is the FOSDEM ? The acronym means Free and Open-source Software Developpers’ European Meeting. It is a yearly event which takes place in Brussels/Belgium. The 2008’s edition is scheduled on the 23-24 february’s weekend. The list of stands is available here. You’ll find there our beloved OS but also Syllabe and other prestigious names like Mozilla,Gnome, Kde, Fedora, CentOS, etc. François will be there, Niels Reedijk and Remi (BeOSfrance) also. And, as an official “.be” guy, you should see me there also :-)
After browsing BeBits for the first time since long I stumbled upon a real neat looking app. hey68you created a application/file launcher very much like the dock in MacOS called BeDock. BeDock can be configured to look just like you want it, with a transparent shelf and all.
I didn’t test it myself jet but according to BeBits Talkback it works very well. There are still some minor glitches but I’m sure they’ll be fixed soon. Check out the cool screenshots here. This is the kind of app that makes me want to blow the dust of my Be machine and boot R5 to test it. For those of you who are curious how this is done, BeDock is written in YAB and the source is open!
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