[Libreoffice] About InstallationFinder (sdk, Java), an API question.

Giuseppe Castagno giuseppe.castagno at acca-esse.eu
Tue Oct 5 10:05:23 PDT 2010


Hi Fridrich
Fridrich Strba wrote:
> Fixed and pushed the registry key modification.  As to the soffice.exe
> executable, to change its name is not critical and doing so might
> actually create quite number of problems because it is hardcoded quite
> all around the code. On Windows, you just click and the right things
> starts, on linux there are symlinks available :)

that was quick!

Ciao,

Giuseppe.

> 
> Cheers 
> 
> Fridrich
> 
> On Tue, 2010-10-05 at 15:02 +0200, Giuseppe Castagno wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm just browsing the code, so may be I'm plain wrong with this, but,
>> anyway here it is.
>>
>> Please have a look here:
>>
>> http://opengrok.go-oo.org/xref/sdk/odk/source/com/sun/star/lib/loader/InstallationFinder.java#193
>>
>> This function can be used to detect where LibO is installed, if I recall
>> correctly, this particular one is the code that can be used in Windows,
>> in Java.
>>
>> If I'm not mistaken as it's there, it points to a OOo installation instead.
>>
>> So may be this line:
>>
>> http://opengrok.go-oo.org/xref/sdk/odk/source/com/sun/star/lib/loader/InstallationFinder.java#195
>>
>> should contain LibreOffice instead of OpenOffice.org.
>>
>> I know it could be a bit early to points this out, but perhaps this
>> should be changed.
>>
>> For Linux, line:
>>
>> http://opengrok.go-oo.org/xref/sdk/odk/source/com/sun/star/lib/loader/InstallationFinder.java#74
>>
>> has a "soffice", shouldn't it be "libreoffice" ?
>>
>> Since I'm not sure, can someone check this?
>>
>> Beppec56
>>
> 
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> 
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Kind Regards,
Giuseppe Castagno
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