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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Autosave and Templates problem
From:       Thomas Zander <zander () kde ! org>
Date:       2008-10-31 7:35:51
Message-ID: 200810310835.56938.zander () kde ! org
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On Thursday 30. October 2008 09:20:40 James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> jaham@gmx.net wrote:
> > Hi folks...
> >
> > I investigated why autosave does not work correctly when the user
> > opened a template, modified the content and does not save it manually
> > to another file before the autosave timer has run out.
> > When autosave kicks in it tries to save the document in the native
> > format (see KoDocument::slotAutoSave). When saving it checks the
> > outputMimeType which is a KoDocument internal variable to determine if
> > it should save to oasis or the old native format. Unfortunately the
> > outputMimeType is not set (i.e. is empty) when a template was loaded.
> > This means it tries to save to the old native format. At least for
> > Karbon that does not work, as there is no code to save to the old
> > format anymore.
> > One solution for Karbon would be to just overload the virtual
> > KoDocument slot openTemplate and set the outputMimeType to Karbon
> > native format odg. Another solution (also for other KOffice apps) would
> > be to check the mimetype of the template in KoDocument::openTemplate
> > and set that as the outputMimeType.
> >
> > Any other ideas or suggestions?
>
> Part of the problem is that (trying KWord) it is possible to open a
> template.  That should not happen.  

In the context of this thread we are probably talking about something quite 
different then what you mean.
The documentation goes into templates quite extensively if you are curious.
-- 
Thomas Zander

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