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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: libkspreadexport
From:       Fred Malabre <fmalabre () yahoo ! com>
Date:       2002-12-01 23:38:19
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I forgot to say, if you don't implement the callbacks in the worker class, the 
leader will print the content of the map in debug with the number 30508 which 
is the one registered for the "kword-export-filter-lib". I figured out we 
could share the number as I don't see any conflict.

Fred.

On Sunday 01 December 2002 05:32 pm, Fred Malabre wrote:
> Ok, I just commited the lib and the framework.
> the lib is in koffice/filters/kspread/libkspreadexport/
> and the framework is in koffice/filters/kspread/excel/
>
> It's not well documented, but easy to understand. The framework has
> callbacks you can (probably must) reimplement for the creation of the Excel
> doc. As an argument you will get a QMap object with all kind of data for
> the callback. The names of the key in the map are lower case strings,
> explicit enough to guess what it is. The value associated are always
> string, and can be converted to underlaying value with the QString object
> (encoded to string this way too). The exception are boolean, converted as
> "true" or "false". Using a QMap object makes it slower (lot of QString
> translations), but I guess it's no big deal for an export filter. The good
> thing about it is the document can evolve as well as the library without
> having to update all the filters.
>
> 2 big things are missing for the worked, I will add them when someone need
> them, it's the KLocale associated to the doc, as well as the ListArea.
> Also, nothing for embedded objects yet. So far I just don't know how it
> works.
>
> Well, it's not much, but it should hide the "gather data in the kspread
> classes" part for all kspread export filters.
>
> Fred.
>
> PS: I don't know if I'm supposed to update any makefile in parent
> directories, so I haven't done anything there. So you need to do explicitly
> a make in those two directories for now.

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