Re: [libreoffice-users] 4.3 Writer Beta Breaks Alternate Search Extension

-------- Original Message --------
From: Joel Madero <jmadero.dev@gmail.com>
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 22:10:04 -0800

> On 01/27/2014 12:19 PM, CVAlkan wrote:
> > I'm using Writer Version: 4.3.0.0.alpha0+ Build ID:
> > be4035d00f37c492494fa7860955b6d0868c7f77 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64 bit Linux
> >
> > In the course of trying to figure out how to remove index marks from a
> > Writer document, one of the things I tried was to load the Alternate Search
> > and Replace Extension, which I had used before. As it turns out, it doesn't
> > have the capability of finding index marks (the Index Property is for
> > something else), so it wouldn't have helped me anyway, but while trying, I
> > ran into a bug I thought should be reported.
> >
> > I downloaded the latest available version 1.4 (Jan 21, 2014) of the
> > Alternate Search and Replace Extension, but found that I could no longer
> > choose items from the drop down list of Properties, as it simply used
> > whatever it felt like. Not good.
> >
> > So thinking the new version perhaps had a bug of some sort, I loaded the
> > version I had used earlier, which was 1.3.2 (July 1, 2013).
> >
> > Same problem.
> >
> > Then I ran Writer Version: 4.2.0.1 Build ID:
> > 7bf567613a536ded11709b952950c9e8f7181a4a (I'm using the 4.3 alpha because of
> > another bug in 4.2, but that's a whole other story). I tried both versions
> > of the Alternate Search and Replace Extension and they both work fine with
> > Writer 4.2.
> >
> > I can only draw the conclusion that something has gotten broken between the
> > two Writer versions referenced above.
> >
> > How does this get reported to the developers?
> Extensions are third party development and therefore not part of our bug
> tracker. Unfortunately all you can do is hope that the developer of the
> extension sees that it is broken and fixes it (currently we have no
> method of contacting the extension provider).
>
>
> Best,
> Joel

The developer is /Tomáš Bílek/ see
http://www.volny.cz/macrojtb/AltSearch_cs.html

Regards
Dave




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