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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Scripting of kword and other office applications
From:       Joseph Wenninger <jowenn () bigfoot ! com>
Date:       2001-09-25 18:47:58
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Hi

I really like the idea of the DCop interfaces, but I don't think they are 
really userfull. It could by that I'm to silly, but I can't even add a table 
with 3 columns and 2 rows to a kword file from within a script (bash). I 
think it is a nice feature that all actions are  exported, but what is it 
good for, if the only action (which I found) for inserting a table is the 
view's insert_table action, which pops up an modal dialog, so that kword 
doesn't react to any further dcop calls, till this dialog is closed by the 
user.

Is there something planned to build a real usefull, standardized dcop 
interface for koffice applications, which eg doesn't show popupdialogs, but 
provides functioncalls like insert_table(columns,rows,inline) ?? I think in 
this area there should be something done to improve usability. M$Office VBA 
is usfull (despite the security issues), but koffice is far behind.

It could be that I'm just too silly, or that the koffice features are just to 
badly documented. If I misinterpreted the current scripting situation in 
koffice the wrong way, than I'm sorry, but I'm quite stressed and at the end 
of nerves, trying to use kword as some kind of report generator, which would 
be quite easy in M$ Word to do


Kind regards
Joseph Wenninger
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