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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Problem with Kword inserting pictures
From:       Werner Trobin <wtrobin () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2000-06-27 20:39:37
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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..
> 
> > 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?
> I'll read up on that tomorrow, it will be in the mailing archives I suspect..

We definitely need an image container in kofficeui. Reggie promised
to give it a try, but he is really busy :)
Basicly it has to:
- Store the image, the filename, a unique "key" to find/reuse the image
- Know/generate the internal path (in the tgz storage structure)
- load/save itself (and all the images) - this includes the distiction
  between internal/external images and so on...
- everything I've forgotten now :)

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Werner Trobin - wtrobin@mandrakesoft.com

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