Re: Usage of ActiveX in Libre Office

OkAny idea how we can test the behaviour with ActiveX removed ?GreetzFernand


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-------- Original message --------From: Bryan Quigley <bryan.quigley@canonical.com> Date: 
27/01/2017  18:09  (GMT+01:00) To: sos <sos@pmg.be> Cc: libreoffice@lists.freedesktop.org, 
libroffice.dev@artavi.de Subject: Re: Usage of ActiveX in Libre Office 
I don't believe it would be affected, but it would need to be tested to be sure.

Thanks,
Bryan

On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 3:43 PM, sos <sos@pmg.be> wrote:
> Bryan,
> Please clarify, will stuff like
>
> oShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
>
> Still working after removing ActiveX?
> If not: then lots off API code will been broken and this will been a BIG
> regression ?
>
> Greetz
>
> Fernand
>
>
> Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Bryan Quigley <bryan.quigley@canonical.com>
> Date: 25/01/2017 20:43 (GMT+01:00)
> To: libreoffice@lists.freedesktop.org, libroffice.dev@artavi.de
> Subject: re: Usage of ActiveX in Libre Office
>
> Welcome and thanks for responding to notice!
>
> You're the first person (AFAICT) who has written in response to the
> deprecation notice.   My original intention was to remove it from the
> 5.2 release if we got no responses to that notice (that obviously
> hasn't happened).
>
> At this point the soonest release we could remove it from is 5.4
> (which might be around Aug 2017).  It's far from scheduled though.
>
> We really don't have much data to base this decision on, so I'll ask
> you instead.  Knowing keeping support has an impact on LibreOffice
> development, when do you think is reasonable for ActiveX support to be
> removed?
>
> What Windows version are you running?
>
> Kind regards,
> Bryan
>
> [The whole original thread - quite long]
> https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2015-December/071580.html
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