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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Scripting of kword and other office applications
From:       Simon Hausmann <hausmann () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-09-26 15:03:35
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On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 08:47:58PM +0200, Joseph Wenninger wrote:
> 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

I think one approach to make scripting easier is not to use bash for
scripting (/me hopes Adrian doesn't read this ;-) . Take a look at
the python bindings for an easier (and more flexible) approach.

Simon
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