make Analog Clock sidebar extension demo work

from...

https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Sidebar_for_Developers#Example:_Analog_Clock_Extension
http://people.apache.org/~af/clock/AnalogClock.oxt

presumably compatibility was broken at:
commit e66be44b69ee2a1b99bda32af93ea453c669b319
Date:   Sun Jun 2 04:46:58 2013 +0200

sidebar: Restrict the minimal width of the sidebar.

Change-Id: Id1531d4531a3e9bceb3d37a9e74a7a06497098e3
Reviewed-on: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/111868
Tested-by: Jenkins
Reviewed-by: Caolán McNamara <caolanm@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/sfx2/source/sidebar/DeckLayouter.cxx b/sfx2/source/sidebar/DeckLayouter.cxx
index f90ec176b2d0..bebc75e726ad 100644
--- a/sfx2/source/sidebar/DeckLayouter.cxx
+++ b/sfx2/source/sidebar/DeckLayouter.cxx
@@ -433,7 +433,16 @@ void GetRequestedSizes (
                          << " Maximum: " << rItem.maLayoutSize.Maximum);
             }
 
-            sal_Int32 nWidth = xPanel->getMinimalWidth();
+            sal_Int32 nWidth = rMinimalWidth;
+            try
+            {
+                // The demo sidebar extension "Analog Clock" fails with
+                // java.lang.AbstractMethodError here
+                nWidth = xPanel->getMinimalWidth();
+            }
+            catch (...)
+            {
+            }
 
             uno::Reference<frame::XDesktop2> xDesktop
                 = frame::Desktop::create(comphelper::getProcessComponentContext());