Programming challenges of multi-view

COOL Days 2024 (https://www.collaboraoffice.com/cool-days-2024/), Cambridge

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1. Miklos Vajna Software Engineer vmiklos@collabora.com 2024-04-09 Programming challenges of multi-view
2. 2/7 Motivation • LOK views are meant to represent separate users • When a user sets their preferences and trigger an action • The response to that action goes to the correct view • With the correct view settings • Different from the desktop LibreOffice use-case • Multiple windows → same user name, language, undo stack and so on
3. 3/7 Link popup in Calc, now fixed
4. 4/7 Calc conditional format add dialog
5. 5/7 String localization on the statusbar
6. 6/7 String localization on the sidebar
7. 7/7 Summary • Async command dispatch now happens on the correct view • Hyperlink, async inner dialogs • Async binding update on the status bar now shows the correct data • Statusbar now has the correct language/locale • Sidebar now has the correct language/locale