From koffice-devel  Tue Feb 26 10:02:52 2002
From: Thomas Zander <zander () planescape ! com>
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 10:02:52 +0000
To: koffice-devel
Subject: Re: Template Wizard in dcop
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On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 08:32:38PM +0000, Chris Howells wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> Reading kde-cvs I've been quite fascinated with the way in which dcop=20
> interfaces have been added to various places in KOffice. I don't know a g=
reat=20
> deal about dcop at the moment (I'm going to read up on it tonight :)), bu=
t I=20
> presume that I could do something like tell KWord "I want a table 3 rows =
by 3=20
> columns on line x" and it could do it?
>=20
> If so, I would quite like to work on some kind of templates wizard, a bit=
 like=20
> the page wizards in MS Publisher.
>=20
> The way I'm thinking is some kind of extensible wizard (based on KWizard?=
)=20
> that would ask the user relevant options for the kind of document they we=
re=20
> creating e.g. for business cards, you'd be asked the name, address, phone=
=20
> number, etc.
>=20
> Does this sound like a good idea? :) Does anybody have any ideas how some=
 kind=20
> of generic template framework (based on XML files to describe?) could be =
put=20
> in place to implement wizards?

My thoughts on this subject are that I would like to see general macros in =
KWord.
Where you can 'plug' in a list of macros (either coming with the distro or =
user-
installed). A new 'macro' menu would seem appropriate. Think along the line=
s of a=20
macro that would add a nice layout to a table or a page. But (almost) anyth=
ing is=20
possible.

Using that as a base your idea would probably be better to do with using a =
set=20
of macro's that get arguments. The wizard than embeds a number of macro-GUI=
s=20
one after another. (maybe with specially made macros for that wizard, but t=
hey
can be used seperately!)

In that world I don't like the templates analogy very much. Keep one way of=
=20
providing templates; not two. The wizard would be much better for changing =
an=20
allready created page.

--=20
Thomas Zander                                            zander@earthling.n=
et
The only thing worse than failure is the fear of trying something new

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