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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Experiences with KWord 1.2.1 (KDE3.1)
From:       Nicolas Goutte <nicolasg () snafu ! de>
Date:       2003-02-19 22:03:53
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On Wednesday 19 February 2003 17:40, David Faure wrote:
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> On Wednesday 19 February 2003 15:22, Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> > On Wednesday 19 February 2003 13:58, Michael Thaler wrote:
> > > Using another KOffice application is fine if you want to import,
> > > e.g. a complicated eps picture. But if I just want to add a line
> > > somewhere or an arrow, especially somewhere in the text, this is not
> > > possible. Would be nice to have this feature. I am thinking about
> > > lines, rectangles, ellipses, maybe bezier curves which can be directly
> > > added to the text. To some extend, one can use frames and just chose
> > > one border as aline, but this is obviously not an elegant solution.
> >
> > I would like to make something like that. KPresenter can already do it,
> > so it would be nice if KWord could it too. However the problem that I
> > have is that KPresenter uses objects and KWord frames. That is very
> > similar but not the same. I would like to do something but I do not see
> > when I could take time to plan and do something like this.
>
> I'd suggest a common lib for such objects, using a KoDrawingObject base
> class or so, and then a KPObject and a KWFrameSet "wrappers" for
> KoDrawingObjects. That way you can centralize code without having
> to merge the object classes used by the applications (which wouldn't
> make sense; the KWFrameSet/KWFrame concept doesn't apply to kpresenter).
>
> The wrappers would simply "forward" paint events, geometry changes,
> and (mouse) events to the KoDrawingObjects.

That seems to be very much like one of the ways that I wanted to check. 
However your idea goes further with the use of KoDrawingObject..

Have a nice day/evening/night!

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> David Faure -- faure@kde.org, dfaure@klaralvdalens-datakonsult.se
> Qt/KDE/KOffice developer
> Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB, Platform-independent software solutions
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