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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Problem with Kword inserting pictures
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2000-06-27 20:28:29
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On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 10:21:09PM +0200, Thomas wrote:
> > > Then lets make that the difference between the DTP and the Word type of 
> > > documents; in Word type of documents pictures are always included into the 
> > > document, in DTP type you have the possibility to make a file external.
> > 
> > If you want. You're the KWord developer, not me :-)
> 
> Have to think about that...
> 
> > 
> > Note: when I said that support for external stuff was there in kofficecore... that
> > was only about embedded documents (and was removed in the last cleanup - where were
> > you when we discussed that ? :-)) Well it should be easy to readd.).
> 
> Ehh, must have been some time ago then..

isStoredExtern() was removed not so long ago. But when I say "support for"
I don't mean much... Basically it was only that method
(returned true if the URL for the child doc wasn't a tar:// URL)
and the loading code that loaded the file from there.
Well, that's all that is needed in koDocument.
The rest (the UI part of it) is still to be imagined...
(e.g. another menuitem [action], or a button for opening the file dialog
from the part chooser dialog...)

> > But images and cliparts are not embedded documents, they are currently handled by
> > the app itself. An image collection class in kofficeui is still missing, in koffice.
> > We've been talking about it for quite some time now :-)
> > This class could take care of this issue of finding external pictures
> > (and asking the user what to do if the picture is missing, for instance).
> 
> And this is a class that does not exist at all yet, yes?
Yup. But KWord, KPresenter and KIllu have good candidates for those classes...

> I'll read up on that tomorrow, it will be in the mailing archives I suspect..
Nut much more...

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