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Subject:    Re: automated chart generation with kchart ?
From:       Raphael Langerhorst <raphael.langerhorst () kdemail ! net>
Date:       2006-06-11 16:04:12
Message-ID: 200606111804.14991.raphael.langerhorst () kdemail ! net
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Am Sonntag, 11. Juni 2006 11:10 schrieb Guillaume Laurent:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to use kchart to generate a chart (as an image - png, jpg,
> whatever) in an automated way (e.g. from a cron job, like gnuplot can).
> Generating the input file is not really a problem, it's just exporting an
> image. Ideally I could invoke the 'export' function from dcop, but I
> couldn't find it in the available interfaces. Am I missing anything ?
> (Googling around didn't help)
>
> (please CC me in the reply as I'm not subscribed, but I'll watch the
> archives anyway).
>
> Thanks,

Hi,

Someone at the Linuxwochen in Vienna asked the exact same thing.

AFAIK you can use DCOP with KOffice 1.5 to do "some" of the things you need. 
Without knowing all the details I remember that some of the dcop calls 
(especially those opening dialogs) were blocking calls, so the use is 
somewhat limited.

This information _might_ be outdated, maybe it's all supported and fine 
already.

If not, a new scripting interface is currently taking over the whole world... 
ehm... koffice. Its called Kross, and supports multiple scripting languages 
(in particular Python and Ruby). It's already available for some components 
in the 1.5 release, but not yet for KChart (again, AFAIK).

Kross is certainly meant to be available throughout all KOffice with the 2.0 
release as a sophisticated (= usable for real work) scripting interface.

Others might know more details than I.

Regards,
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Raphael Langerhorst
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