Office for Java Readme
Scrollbars are problematic in all of the applications. Corel is aware of most scrollbar issues, such
as not being able to drag the scrollbar slider, the scrollbar slider not accurately representing your
position, not being able to hold down the scrollbar buttons to get continuous scrolling, etc.
Solaris will be supported under JDK 1.1.1 and/or Solaris 2.6. Currently this JDK 1.02 is not
recommended for use with Office for Java under Solaris.
Modal Dialogs may hang Corel Office for Java under JavaStation. This is a known JavaStation
OS bug and is properly working on other platforms.
Setup instructions
Setup Instructions
Extract Office for Java to your c: drive (Windows 95/NT and OS/2)
Using a Java-Enabled Web Browser
When using java-enabled browsers such as Netscape, simply load the Shell.html or
Shellhigh.html. Shell.html was designed for viewing in low resolution (640*480 and 800*600)
while Shellhigh.html was intended for high resolution (1024*768 or greater). Netscape and
Internet Explorer are not designed for local file I/O however in our released product you will be
able to save to a server. With the implementation of JAR files in future versions you should also
be able to do local file I/O using Java.
Alternate Methods to Launch Corel Office For Java
If you wish to save files locally, you will require the Java Development Kit 1.02 provided freely
by Javasoft. (We have included these with the self extracting exe version)
If you have not already obtained the JDK, it can be obtained from ftp://ftp.javasoft.com/pub/
(ftp.javasoft.com server at Sun) or from Apple or IBM (Mac MRJ and OS Java VM respectively)
Once the Java Development Kit has been installed (preferrably in the root of your C: drive if the
a zip file was used), you will have two alternate methods to launch Corel Office for Java. If you
have installed the JDK in an alternate directory, please make the appropriate changes to the batch
files.
If you wish to run Corel Office for Java as a standalone application, simply double-click on the
"cojjava.bat" file found in the c:\coj directory. If you wish to run Corel Office for Java as an
applet, simply double-click on the "cojapplet.bat" file found in the c:\coj directory.
Office for Java WordPerfect Known Problems
- Can only open and save WordPerfect for Java files.
- Images in documents don't print.
- No keyboard access to the menus.
- Cursor sometimes won't move up or down past paragraph breaks (use left and right arrow
or mouse to move across).
- Text on the screen sometimes appears spaced funny (looks like there is a space between
letters in a word). As a workaround choose AAdjust font sizes on printer and display@
on the Font dialog.
- Printing only supports Postscript printers.
- Replace all can hang when Case Sensitive checkbox is not marked.
- Copying an embedded component to the clipboard and pasting it doesn't always work.
- Text around components pasted from the clipboard sometimes wraps incorrectly.
- In Netscape, text on the screen will sometimes change to a different font and size and
back as you move the cursor.
- Undo and Redo are not yet hooked up
- Can only print when File I/O functionality is available
- Can only cut/copy and paste from/to applications within the Office for Java suite
- Mouse pointer may not always indicate proper state of application.
- Mouse pointer may not update accordingly when moved over browser or applet frames
- Toolbar buttons display last settings when you switch between documents, open a new
document or close a document.
- Can not manually edit Font Size field in the Format/Font dialog box.
- Multiple mouse clicks does not work for selecting a word, line or paragraph.
- Can only insert jpg or gif image files
- Status bar does not always redraw properly after switching between documents.
- Changing the number of columns or the spacing between columns applies to current
paragraph only. To apply changes to more than current paragraph, text must be marquee
selected.
- Can not adjust spacing between columns using Ruler - must refer to the Columns/Define
Dialog Box.
- To move cursor into an empty/unactivated column - must use CTRL + Enter.
- When applying bullets to multiple paragraphs separated by hard carriage returns, bullets
are inserted on each blank line. The only way to avoid this is to use the Paragraph/Format
Dialog Box to set the spacing between paragraphs.
- At times the Margin and Find/Replace Dialogs open behind the applet.
- You can open multiple instances of the Find/Replace Dialog
- Sun NC - User may experience page redraw problems when zoom level is changed from a
higher to lower percentage.
- Sun NC - Anchor Dialog Box - In selection boxes - long text tends to be truncated.
- Sun NC - Format/Font Dialog Box - The colour drop down palette does not dismiss
unless you make a selection
- Sun NC - Format/Font Dialog Box - Some text labels appear truncated
- Page scrolls too fast when marquee selecting text, making it difficult to control selection
process.
- Netscape - Text on screen tends to flash and display as a different font size/style as cursor
moves through text.
- Trying a Case Insensitive Replace All with the wrap option turned off will hang
application.
- Can not do a case insensitive replace/replace all.
- Screen does not scroll when conducting a Find/Replace search.
- Whole Word Find/Replace searching has not yet been implemented.
- When a word is not found - no dialog appears to indicate word was not found.
- Replace All does not work for marquee selected text.
- After opening another application or switching between documents - checkmarks beside
Ruler and Preferences Menu Items disappear.
- AppletViewer - Focus is lost after exiting out of dialog Boxes. Have to click in document
to resume typing.
- Shift + Tab does not work to backtab in Dialogs, but moves cursor forward to next field.
- Inserting an indent/tab before pasting a component will cause copied component to
become invisible dependent on cursor position.
- Can not open when: Part of the frame of one WP component was dragged over the frame
of another component.
- Dragging mouse to create space for an object will not scroll page.
- After deleting an embedded component, cursor disappears until you click in document.
- Can't paste a paragraph anchored embedded object on a blank line.
Office For Java Spreadsheet Known Problems
Worksheet
- Data that exceeds the width of the column is not displayed on screen.
- When selecting columns or row with the mouse using the column/row headers, if drag to
left or up of the application window, you have to jiggle the mouse to keep the worksheet
scrolling.
- If drag mouse over row/column headers to outside of the application window, move
mouse back toward the application window, there is highlighting problem
- Can not marquee select and scroll up and left.
- Under Netscape, clicking on the scrollbars will cause a non-fatal security exception in the
Java console. This is normal.
- There is redraw problem when select part of a range that has border and other
- format, then click sheet.
- If you apply a large font other than default font (e.g. 72 point font), the row will not
automatically resize the row height. You have to manually resize the row height to have
the data fit in the cell.
- Formula bar input box will not wrap around when text hits the end of the input box. Text
is still being accepted, but the box doesn't scroll.
- If perform an operation to all cells of a page, there is a time delay for showing the
message prompt user for undo redo option. Undo/Redo are not functioning properly when
yes is selected.
- Move sheet has following problems:
1. drag a sheet that has user defined sheet name, place the sheet in front of a sheet that
has user defined sheet name
--- result: the two sheet will be swapped
2. drag a sheet that has default sheet name, place the sheet in front of a sheet that has
default sheet name
--- result: the two sheet will be swapped
3. drag a sheet that has user defined sheet name, place the sheet in front of a sheet that
has default sheet name
--- result: the two sheet will be swapped and content of the sheet that has default sheet
name will be replaced with the content of the other sheet
If save the file now, open the file, duplicate page name message will appear.
- Can not do cross page marquee selection.
- Press down/up button of the vertical scroll bar the horizontal scroll bar flickers
- Press right/left button of the horizontal scroll bar the vertical scroll bar flickers
- Most shortcut keys have not been enabled in this release.
- Refresh problems occur when borders are applied.
- Contents of the formula bar are highlighted after you switch pages.
Cut, Copy, and Paste
- Cut/copy embedded object and paste, the object will be pasted on top of the original one
- Paste to many does not work under Netscape.
- After cutting a thick border , an outline still appears at right and bottom edge of a block.
- When copy a formula in an embedded spreadsheet component in wordperfect document,
paste to the wordperfect will give error result.
Editing
- If resize cell while editing the cell, content disappears temporally from cell,
- reappears after resizing.
Formatting
- Will not autofit the cell if data in cell is formatted other than default text. such as
- date, time, scientific numbers.
- Type in 12/30/1899, or type in 0 and format to date will give 00/00/0
- Display problem when enter 9999999 or 99999999 etc
- Occasional formatting error when apply speedformat to a selection, depending on data in
the selection
- Apply number format on a large number e.g 1e+200 will cause an exception
- The Advanced button option in the speedformat dialog window does not work under the
Java Station.
Formulas and Function Wizard
- Function abs is not displayed in the list upon opening the function wizard window
- Functions contains known problems:
accrint
besseli
besselk
combin
coup
cumipmt
chitest
db
ddb
dec2bin
erf
factdouble
gcd
lcm
ln
log2
median
mod
permut
pv
vdb
- When cell reference is invalid , it doesn't give error message but it considers as string.
Find/Replace
- Doing a replace all on a large number of cells , for example 25000 cells , will take a
noticeable length of time to complete.
Auto-fill
- If you close the spreadsheet before closing the autofill series dialog, the program will
throw an exception.
- Auto-filling a function or cell referencing in number of cells takes a noticeable length of
time to complete.
Inserting/deleting
- Trying insert a row on a sheet that contains a column where each cell in the column
contains data, the row will not be inserted. The same thing will happen if you try to insert
a column in the sheet where each cell in the row contains data.
- There is repaint problem when undo/redo after insert or delete row(s)/column(s)
- Undo/Redo insert/delete row(s)/column(s) may have cell referencing and data updating
error
Range Name
- If type a defined range name in name box, will not select the defined range.
- You are not able to use the sheet name together with a range name in a formula, for
example, sheet name is "Sheet1" and range A1..A3 has the range name of "Test", trying
=sum(Sheet1:Test) will give #SYNTAX error.
Undo/Redo
- Cannot undo autofit
- Cannot undo column/row resizes.
- Cannot undo sorting.
- Cannot undo insert/delete cells (by shifting)
- After open a file which contains a chart on a page, if first processing action is delete the
chart, then undo the deletion---cause an exception.
Focus problems
- Keyboard lost focus after modify sheet name on the sheet tab and press enter
- Cell still has focus when embedded chart is in editing mode
- Need click sheet to return focus if switch back from other application window.
Embedding
- When an object is in edit mode, no scrollbars for the page.
Chart Known Problems
- All charts get their data from Quattro Pro. If you are in any other application you must
first insert a Quattro Pro component for your chart to get its data.
- If you insert a chart directly onto a Quattro Pro page without selecting any data you will
get an empty chart. You can however insert data into the cells that were selected and add
to the chart.
- If you insert a chart directly onto the page of any other application you will get the
non-editable default chart.
- If you do not have the proper data for a particular chart you may get an empty chart.
- If charts are resized in either the horizontal or vertical direction you may experience
screen redraw problems. To solve this, manually refresh the screen by switching pages.
- Undo/Redo do not work on charts
- Font properties are only active when the text item on the chart is selected.
- Legend Properties do not apply when the chart type is Vertical or Horizontal line or
Table.
- Frame Properties do not apply when the chart type is any of the 3D Visual.
README.TXT for Presentations for Java
GENERAL ISSUES
- The following are general problems in Presentations for Java:
- The polygon/star preview window displays the polygon/star upside down.
- The "through to slide" check box in the delete slide dialog is not operational.
- Using gradient fills in a presentation (either as the background or as an object fill) will
slow down the performance.
- Radial fills have black lines when viewed in high resolution or zoomed in.
- In edit mode, embedded objects are missing stretching handles.
- Currently the only way to zoom a slide to the size of the window is by selecting Entire
Slide, an option listed under Zoom in the menu.
- The only way to access slides is by using the drop -down slide list or the slide sorter;
however, the drop-down list shows a limited number of slides depending on the number
of slides and/or window size.
OBJECT ISSUES
- There is no marquee and only one object can be selected at a time.
- To move an object, click once to select it, then click and drag to move it.
- Dragging an object behind another object will bring it to the front layer.
- Pressing a key or resizing the window before moving an object will cause it to jump and
sometimes resize.
- Pasted objects change to match the copied object.
- Selecting an object appearing to be in front of another will often select the one behind it.
This occurs if the mouse is clicked in an area where the two objects overlap.
- Clicking on the area outside a polygon or ellipse but inside the selection box will select
the object.
- Clearing a slide with an object selected will preserve that object.
REDRAW ISSUES
- The following problems deal with window redraw in Presentations for Java:(They are not
properly displayed until the window is redrawn)
- Dragging windows on top of gradient previews will overwrite the preview.
- Sometimes an object's color is not updated immediately.
- Changing the zoom view will leave scroll bars on the screen (even if they are not needed).
- Inserted graphics do not appear immediately (mainly .JPGs).
TOOLBAR ISSUES
- The following problems deal with toolbars in Presentations for Java:
- When toolbars are off, the drawing tools are not accessible.
- The second horizontal toolbar's buttons are duplicated each time the toolbar is disabled
and enabled again.
SHAPE TOOL ISSUES
- The shape tool is problematic is Presentations for Java.
- Most of the related problems are known. Some examples are:
- The nodes of a deleted object are accessible with the shape tool.
- Filled -in shapes jump to the same spot on the screen when working with the shape tool.
CROSS-PLATFORM ISSUES
- The following problems are platform-specific:
- The slide numbers in the slide sorter view do not appear on every platform.
- Gradients do not show on a Macintosh.
- Some dialog boxes appear behind the main window on a Macintosh.
- Presentations do not end on a Unix machine (use STOP A).
- The drop -down color dialogs are drawn behind buttons on OS/2.
- Modal dialogs hang the operating system on the Sun JavaStation's JavaOS.
Corel InfoCentral for Java README
General Issues
- InfoCentral may take awhile to start up if you have a fairly large amount of saved data
(i.e. more than 640 KB) in your database file (corelpim.coj). Similarly, if you have a
large amount of data, it may take up to 30 seconds to shut down InfoCentral (or the Office
for Java if you have InfoCentral open).
- Currently InfoCentral does not use the server-side file I/O functionality of the Office.
Therefore when you run as an applet through a browser that doesn't allow local file access
you won't be able to save any of the information that you enter while using this
application. InfoCentral will warn you of this at startup, stating that you are in
'demonstration mode'. In order to avoid the loss of any email messages the ability to
remove mail from a POP3 server has been disabled while in this mode.
- Quickly switching between InfoCentral applications while using the Windows95/NT JDK
1.02's java.exe and Appletviewer can either hang the entire Java Virtual Machine (JVM)
or crash it (an IPF in java.exe). This is a known bug in the Sun JVM in the Win32 JDK
1.02.
- Scrollbars are problematic in all of the InfoCentral applications. Corel is aware of most
scrollbar issues, such as not being able to drag the scrollbar slider, the scrollbar slider not
accurately representing your position, not being able to hold down the scrollbar buttons to
get continuous scrolling, etc. InfoCentral is also missing horizontal scrollbars in two
areas where they are needed: the Address Book's Address List and the Email's Message
List.
- The ability to use the tab key to move between fields in any of the InfoCentral dialogs has
not been implemented, and you must manually click on a dialog's fields before beginning
to type because focus is not always assigned to newly opened dialogs or windows.
- Occasionally a window might fall behind the main application window (i.e. the New
Message dialog might disappear beneath the main InfoCentral window when you click on
the Address Book subdialog's OK button), before you give up on the application as being
hung, ensure that a window is not simply hidden.
- To avoid problems with the Email, you must first set up the Email client through
InfoCentral and specifically through the Email application itself. If you set up the Email
client through the Office for Java by sending a file, or through the Calendar by sending an
appointment you will cause your Email folders to be mislabeled and your name will not
show up in the Tree Control (it will say New name instead).
- The Macintosh Applet Runner will not run InfoCentral from your local hard drive. In
order to launch InfoCentral on the Macintosh, you can run it from a server with Applet
runner, and/or JRunner can run it from your hard drive.
- The placement of the Applet Warning tag may cut off parts of some dialogs. On some
operating systems, this warning appears at the top of the dialog, and on others it appears
on the bottom. This is particularly noticeable with the Calculator application running on
the JavaStation, where the numerical display is mostly hidden by this warning.
- When running InfoCentral as an applet, it might take awhile to initialize the application
and though it may appear that your system has hung (a dialog box and a frame appear that
have no text inside them), it can take several seconds to start up.
Calendar
- Drag and drop of QuickEvents and vCalendar functionality do not work on the Sun
JavaStation's JavaOS and on some Appletviewers.
- There is no shadow-outline to indicate that you can use the mouse to move or resize an
appointment in the Daily or Weekly views. However this functionality IS present.
Moving an appointment can be achieved by simply clicking on an appointment, moving
your mouse pointer to the position you would like to see the appointment moved to and
releasing the button. To resize an appointment, move your mouse pointer to the top or
bottom of the box until you see a resize cursor and then click and drag to the new size.
- Applying 'Accepted' or 'Declined' vCalendar appointments from Email does not properly
update the appointment attendee information in the Calendar.
- vCalendar's 'Reply Requested' option has no effect. A reply is ALWAYS generated by
the Email.
- Once an all day appointment has been added it is difficult to double-click to select
appointments for editing. To work around this problem click in a blank area and then
click on an appointment to edit it.
ADDRESS BOOK
- Typing in data in the entry area at right may not refresh the display of the Address Listing
at the left until you click off the entry area, onto a folder or entry in the Listing, for
example. It is recommended that you press the Enter/Return key to move between fields
when doing data entry to avoid this problem.
- Sorting only works on the Contacts book and it's sometimes necessary to click more than
once on a column heading before the sort will occur. Currently, sorting is based on
ASCII values and may occasionally produce unexpected results (i.e. a sort order of 1, 10,
2, Z, a).
- The find field above the Address Listing only works on first name, and you must type in
the FULL first name because partial names will not work.
- Groups are not saved until you hit the Save Group button in the Groups/Address Book
dialog. To, CC, and BC information is not retained when you save a group.
- Blank records are not removed automatically, so it is possible to create a record
consisting of all empty fields. These blank records will always display at the top of the
Address Listing if you do any sorting.
EMAIL
- The Email Editor has several known problems: as you type text often characters will
seem to disappear and reappear (with lots of screen flicker) -- this is solved by forcing a
screen repaint; the typical keyboard function keys are not yet implemented -- this includes
Insert, Delete, Home, End, Page Up, Page Down, Shift-Select with Arrow keys, and
double-click to select a word; the scrollbars sometimes do not show up and rarely work as
expected; message formatting toolbar has not been implemented; you cannot combine
formatting options to the same text, only the last option is applied; selection of a word is
lost after applying formatting; non-English characters are not accepted; missing text
alignment and underline text attributes, and multi-fonts;
- If you do not have a classpath set and you attempt to add an attachment outside of the
directory where your classes reside (usually 'coj') then an exception will be thrown on
sending the email. Similarly, if you attempt to attach a file when running Email as an
applet will result in exceptions appearing in the Java Console and the message will not be
sent.
- If you have a single message on your mail server and you retrieve this mail using POP3, it
can be retrieved over and over again.
- Two of the Reply options are not working: Reply To All does not work, it will only reply
to the sender; Include message in reply will not include the message text if you used the
IMAP protocol to retrieve the mail message. And when you Reply To a message, the
resulting New Message dialog will appear with your recipient's name entered twice.
- Printing a mail message from the Message Listing does not work and results in an error
message; if you wish to print a message, open it first and then click on the Print button.
- If you exit InfoCentral when the New Message dialog is open, it will leave the dialog
open. Attempting to use this orphaned dialog will result in error messages in the Java
Console.
- Using the Browse button in the Email Client Preferences dialog's Settings tab to locate
your Web browser will cause an error message in the console and hang the application if
you do not have a CLASSPATH set.
- The Email setup dialog that appears when you first run the Email is partially cut off when
you run it through the JDK 1.02 for Windows 95 or NT's Appletviewer. You should
cancel the setup in this case, and then manually set the application up through the File
menu's Setup, Mail Setup... flyout.
- The Rules dialog's Delete button has no effect. There is no way to delete a rule once it is
created.
- Hyperlinks are not showing up in a different colour.
- The Email tree control allows you to enter non-alphanumeric characters into folder
names. You must be careful not to create an IMAP folder that contains spaces or any
other non-alphanumeric character. Even a folder with no name can be created, though
clicking on such a folder will result in error messages in the Java Console. Also note:
After creating a folder it appears that you can begin typing in a name immediately, though
this is not so. You must first click in the newly appearing entry field before beginning to
type.
- Enabling the Horizontal and Vertical message separator lines is not working in the Mail
Setup Settings tab.
- Multi-selection of messages in the Message Listing is lost when you right click, and when
you attempt to drag and drop.
- Saving a message to Draft does not retain all that messages attributes, you will need to
reset the Priority, the choice of Reply-To address, and the Signature option when you
reopen the message for editing.
- Cannot interrupt a mail retrieve once it is started, whether it be POP3 or IMAP.
- Your IMAP folders will rearrange their order if you switch between InfoCentral
applications.
- Layout of several dialogs is slightly off if you are using a Macintosh.
- Email does not indicate on startup that it is sorting the Message Listing by the Date field,
and that it is sorting Descending.
- Do not try to paste text to the New Message dialog's text area, this will cause many error
messages in the Java Console.
- The dates of received mail messages appear to be off by one month, messages sent in
March will appear to have been sent in February.
- Occasionally, the Rules dialog will appear to be partially cut off. Simply close the dialog
and attempt to reopen it (this may take several tries) in order to get this dialog to appear
correctly.
- There are several places where pressing the Help button will result in an incorrect Help
dialog appearing.
- Once you attempt to delete a mail folder, there is no going back -- even answering NO to
the 'Are you sure?' warning will continue to delete the folder. Messages that are deleted
accidentally can still be retrieved from the Trash folder.
- Under Netscape, the warning dialog that mentions that you will not be able to save your
data when running as an applet that first appears when you open InfoCentral can appear in
the top left corner and it will be mostly hidden.
- There are four extra Rule Actions that have not yet been enabled but still appear in the
Configure Rule dialog: Reply With, Forward To, Redirect To, and Notify.
- It is highly recommended that you use the IMAP protocol when running the application
as an applet or on a Network Computer. This protocol was designed for server-side usage
and you will see performance benefits if you have access to an IMAP capable mail server.
CALCULATOR
- There is a layout problem when you switch views in the Calculator. The workaround is
to switch to desired view, close the Calculator, and then reopen it.
- On the Macintosh there is no way to change to Scientific view when running with the
Applet Runner because the menu is being cut off.