The new template manager and document macros

[Niklas Johansson]

Some new findings, it seems I was wrong about USE_CONFIG not working it 
actually does work, partially. The USE_CONFIG-flag is supposed to show a 
security dialog if the security setting is Medium. At least that is how 
I interpret 
http://api.libreoffice.org/docs/common/ref/com/sun/star/document/MacroExecMode.html#USE_CONFIG. 
Besides that issue everything seems OK.

I will try to create a patch that uses USE_CONFIG and hopefully find 
some time to see if I can get the flag to work as specified, that task 
may very well be way over my head though.

Regards,
Niklas Johansson

Niklas Johansson skrev 2013-02-27 18:53:
> Hi, I'm trying to look into an issue with the new template manager. 
> The new manager doesn't respect macro security settings and always 
> opens every document with macros disabled. If I've read the code 
> correctly I believe that the old code used a dispatch to open the 
> templates while the new implementation uses loadComponentFromURL.
>
> The dispatch service takes care of checking macro security etc while 
> you need to explicitly tell loadComponentFromURL if macros should be 
> allowed. I did do a simple test building MacroExcecutionMode set to 
> USE_CONFIG which didn't really have any effect (probably me messing 
> something up). Something that did give effect was setting the same 
> value to ALWAYS_EXECUTE_NO_WARN, but sadly that isn't what we want 
> either.
>
> Basically I want to know if you think it would be a good idea to go 
> back to a dispatch type of handling or not. I'm a bit worried that it 
> might mess with the CMIS integration.
>
> I believe this is the new method that opens templates
> http://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/sfx2/source/doc/templatedlg.cxx#673 
>
>
> I believe this was the method (which also took care of the previewing 
> templates in the manager)
> http://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/svtools/source/contnr/templwin.cxx#685 
>
>