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List:       koffice
Subject:    KOffice questions
From:       Richard Georg Bayer <bayermeister () gmail ! com>
Date:       2009-05-20 22:20:07
Message-ID: 39d7bbe90905201520w1369c531g82a6604ae9a6c64e () mail ! gmail ! com
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Hi.

I know you're busy working on KOffice 2.0 and I am looking forward to it!
Yet, I have some questions regarding KOffice extensibility. So here they come:


1) The most general: What are the ways of driving KOffice's actions
from the outside? 1.1) I mean can KOffice be used as a tool through
it's API to build up documents? 1.2) And other ways?

Example:
MS Word for example (please don't kill me for these lines) exposes
classes, like the MSWord.Application, .Document, .Selection, .Range
etc. etc., with which you can edit a document via API. It has stupid
limitations, can not be debugged well and Word often shows up asking
if you really want to overwrite that bloody file marked as readonly.

This applies to Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Is there a similar
possibility in KOffice?


2) Was (Is) Kross available in versions previous to KOffice 2.0? I
guess not but please tell me.


3) Are these scripts you can write thanks to Kross able to drive the
application from the outside (is the same as 1.2)), or are they just
for use from within the suite (like for macros, filters etc)?


So that would be it.
Well, there is one more more KDE general: 4) How is OpenParts related
to KPart? Both are component architectures, right?


I appreciate your time with this. I would not ask these if I would
have found answers elsewhere. So thanks in advance.


Richard G. Bayer
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