4.3 Writer Beta Breaks Alternate Search Extension

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#1

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?

#2

CVAlkan wrote

How does this get reported to the developers?

The best way is to raise a bug: https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/bug/

Set the component to Extension and include as much detail about the issue as
you can. A second party (experiencing the same issue) can then confirm the
report. Joel recently made a call out to users for exactly this type of
testing of advanced versions (i.e., v4.3), so thanks for finding this
problem.
Best wishes, Owen.

#3

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

#4

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

Regards
Dave

#5

Thanks for the response.

You said "Unfortunately all you can do is hope that the developer of the
extension sees that it is broken and fixes it".

I suspect you missed my point. Both currently available versions of the
extension work just fine with at least two released versions of Writer.

Neither of the currently available versions of the extension work properly
with the Writer alpha I referenced.

It therefore seems to me that the problem is more likely with some change
made to Writer.

I thought you made a recent post about needing pre-release testing. Why?

#6

Thanks Dave - I sent the message to Tomáš.

#7

Hi Owen:

I used the link you provided and got to what was obviously a LibreOffice
header page (with one header above another actually), and a message saying
that the page I requested was not found.

I'll try again later, but for the moment it doesn't seem to be available.

Frank