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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Plugin development
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2002-09-16 14:18:35
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On Monday 16 September 2002 12:05, David Findlay wrote:
> Is it currently possible to develop third party plugins for Kword? I have a
> couple of things I'd like to do with Kword, but they aren't going to be any
> use to anyone who doesn't have a particular(non-free) application that I use,
> so it's no point releasing it. And in any case if everyone did this it would
> end up hugely bloated with features most people never use.
> 
> I'd like to be able to write a plugin that lets me press a key, and then via
> an API the plugin could read the text of a document immediately before the
> cursor, and paste in the data I from the program. Is there currently a way to
> do this with the DCOP system? Thanks,

Sounds like something that could done with a KDataTool, please have a look
at kdelibs/kio/kio/kdatatool.h
and koffice/tools/{spell|kthesaurus} for example datatools.

They are dl'opened, which is exactly what you want. The datatool interface
might not be powerful enough though (the text before the cursor - do you
mean a word, a paragraph, or the whole document up until there?)

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David FAURE, david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org
http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~david/
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