I didn't see the koffice-devel package on the koffice site.  Oops.  That
solves part of my problem.  Is there anyway to get a devel package for
Karbon?  Or would it be a better idea to just use the koffice APIs to make
my application more portable?

Qt question:  How come there is no use of QCanvasView anywhere in the
koffice headers?  Wouldn't you need to subclass QCanvasView in order to get
functionality like capturing mouse events on canvases?

I'm a bit of a rookie at Qt and KDE development, but I'm really trying to
get my hands dirty in it.  I've done all the tutorials I can find, and now I
want to get going with my own project.

Thanks again.

Jeff

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Faure" <dfaure@klaralvdalens-datakonsult.se>
To: "For developer's discussion about KOffice" <koffice-devel@mail.kde.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 4:00 PM
Subject: Re: Using the KOffice API's in new projects


> On Wednesday 28 May 2003 19:59, Jeff McLean wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > This is my first post to this mailing list so hello to all.
> >
> > I'm starting to develop a new application using the KDE and Qt
libraries.  It
> > is something of a drawing application like Karbon14, but for another
purpose,
> > and it would be GPL, of course.  I think that I could make heavy use of
the
> > KOffice API, but I'm not sure if this is a good idea for several
reasons:
> >         1) The developer APIs (the includes) are not installed on
machines
> > just
> > because KOffice is installed.  Is it possible to install the includes so
that
> > I could use the APIs the same way I'd use the KDE APIs?
>
> kostore, kofficecore, kofficeui and a few others (kformula, kwmf etc.)
> are installed. Which libs are you talking about?
>
> >         2)  Using the KOffice APIs would make my project a KOffice
thing, I
> > guess, is
> > that allowed? or do you need permission or something???
>
> Nope, all the libs are LGPL, you can use them to base your application
> upon, no problem there ("need permission"... did you mean this the
> other way round?)
>
> >         3) I wouldn't want to make users have to install the KOffice
includes
> > just so that they can compile my application.
>
> You can't have it all - if your app is a koffice component, they'll need
> koffice-devel...
>
> --
> David Faure -- faure@kde.org, dfaure@klaralvdalens-datakonsult.se
> Qt/KDE/KOffice developer
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