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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: [Kivio] What would be a good practice to implement configurable
From:       Thomas Zander <zander () kde ! org>
Date:       2010-05-12 6:33:32
Message-ID: 201005120833.32957.zander () kde ! org
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I have a hard time finding out what your question means, how did you conclude 
that you have different shapes?

Did you write a test app that fails?

to give a direct but probably confusing answer; xml is recursive so the method 
you found *can* be used multiple times by one file, but it doesn't have to be.

On Saturday 8. May 2010 07.47.56 Yue Liu wrote:
> At first, I want to use odg file for non-configurable stencils, then I
> noticed the createShapeFromOdf function. The document says it "use the
> element to find out which flake plugin can load it, and
> returns the loaded shape. " Does it mean the odg file loaded won't be
> present as a single shape but be split
> into several shapes according to the content of the odg file? Then it
> won't be a reasonable option for stencils, for one stencil has to be
> one single shape for layout.
> 
> What would it be after an odf file is loaded to the document?
> 
> On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Inge Wallin <inge@lysator.liu.se> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 04 May 2010 17:28:56 Yue Liu wrote:
> >> Is it possible to create shapes using scripting languages? If it is,
> >> we can make some scripting plugins for kivio to make stencil creation
> >> easier.
> >> 
> >> BTW, what is the difference between insert a stencil directly and
> >> insert it as a frame? I found VecterShape insert vecter files as
> >> frames. Do stencils need to be inserted as frames?
> > 
> > The original thought behind the vector shape was to be the vector
> > equivalent of the picture shape: A view-only shape for embedded files.
> >  Today it supports the windows formats WMF and EMF, but that could
> > easily be extended.
> > 
> > You could of course create a stencil shape with the same supported file
> > formats, but with other ways of user interaction.  The code to handle WMF
> > is already in a library, although under koffice/filters and that could
> > easily be moved to koffice/libs/ somewhere. The code to handle EMF is
> > not used anywhere else than the vector shape currently, so it's under
> > the vector shape itself in koffice/plugins/vectorshape/libemf.  That
> > could also easily be extracted.
> > 
> > I cannot really tell you about the difference between a stencil and a
> > frame because I don't know what a stencil has to do.

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Thomas Zander
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