Shaun McDonald's Blog

I’ve been playing around with one of Eric Bachard’s recent Intel OpenOffice Aqua builds. Although it crashes a lot, it does work to some degree.

The crash reporter has a crashing bug in it so I had to disable it using the startup switch -norestore.

Eric had said to me not to run the registration wizard by using the startup switch -nofirststartwizard. However, it worked every time for me, apart from being slow.

There are also two environment variables that need to be set to be able to use the native menus or widgets. These are:

export AQUA_NATIVE_CONTROLS=TRUE

export AQUA_NATIVE_MENUS=TRUE

It won’t be until early 2007 that we there will be an alpha build available of OpenOffice running on the Mac without X11. Until then, you have OpenOffice running within X11. It is available to download from http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/ooo-osx_downloads.html.

Please look at slides 11 – 13, as these contain all the changes.

Primarily, I have added what I think should be in the user and developer sections of the mac porting web site.

http://smsm1.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ooo/MacPortingWebSite.pdf
http://smsm1.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ooo/MacPortingWebSite.odp

To see the current draft please look at http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/testing/index.html