Week #7 - #8 - GSoC Weekly Report - 100 Paper Cuts

GSoC progress for week #7 and week #8.

Made research on borders in Writer-Tables

• Bug: tdf#51665 - Support diagonal borders in TABLEs

In Table Toolbar > Bordes, Writer has 8 border frames for each cell, and has 12 border frames for multiple selected cells. With 2 new borders (Diagonal Left/Right), Writer has 14 border frames.

I made research about how applying borders works in Writer-Tables. Then I started to work on it with sending first patchsets as WIP: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/119685

I realized that Calc has diagonal borders feature in both Format > Cells... > Borders tab and (Sidebar Tab) Properties > Cell Appearance. Next week, I will try to understand how diagonal borders work in Calc cells and will try to implement them in Writer-Tables.

Code pointers:

• sw/source/core/layout/paintfrm.cxx

• sw/source/core/doc/tblafmt.cxx

• svx/source/tbxctrls/tbcontrl.cxx: https://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/svx/source/tbxctrls/tbcontrl.cxx?r=d3228d49#2221

• sc/source/ui/sidebar/CellBorderStyleControl.cxx:133 : https://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/sc/source/ui/sidebar/CellBorderStyleControl.cxx?r=f3fc16f4#133
  

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Summary of last 2 weeks

• Worked on Writer-Tables
• commit: (WIP) Support diagonal borders in Writer-Tables : https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/119685

Next Week TO-DO

• Work on Calc diagonal borders and try to implement them in Writer-Tables