From koffice  Tue Jul 13 19:43:06 1999
From: Harri Porten <porten () tu-harburg ! de>
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 19:43:06 +0000
To: koffice
Subject: Re: OLE-St(r)eam Decoding :)
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Werner Trobin wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> As some of you are working on M$ Office import filters, I'd like
> to announce that I've nearly finished a simple OLE-stream decoder
> (a rewrite of Harri´s framework :). It *should* work (at least it
> does for me), but I'm sure you will find some bugs (esp. mem-leaks).
> 
> At the moment it is able to browse an OLE document, to deliver some
> info for each stream and of course the raw streams.
> 
> If you want to test it:
> klaola.[cc|h] in koffice/kword/filters/winword97
> 
> These files will be transferred to koffice/lib if some filters will
> use it...
> 
> Please let me know if something is missing/buggy/<whatever>
> 
> Werner
> 
> P.S. If you need any further OLE-Info, please visit the homepage
> of the LAOLA-project:
> http://wwwwbs.cs.tu-berlin.de/~schwartz/perl/
> or contact Bill Gates >:)
Werner Trobin wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> As some of you are working on M$ Office import filters, I'd like
> to announce that I've nearly finished a simple OLE-stream decoder
> (a rewrite of Harri´s framework :). It *should* work (at least it
> does for me), but I'm sure you will find some bugs (esp. mem-leaks).
> 
> At the moment it is able to browse an OLE document, to deliver some
> info for each stream and of course the raw streams.

Good work Werner ! I wouldn't have been able to finnish it myself in the
meantime.

Concerning the API: I'm not good in designing an interface if I don't
know yet how the calling application will exactly look like. I'd say
that the interface will mature as filters are written that use it.

Harri.