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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KOffice development
From:       Reginald Stadlbauer <reggie () kde ! org>
Date:       1999-04-12 9:49:07
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On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Kurt Granroth wrote:
> Reginald Stadlbauer wrote:
> > But for KOffice development you don't need to know how the framework works.
> > Take me as example - I just started learning CORBA, but I can say, that I
> > already developed a lot in the KOffice (KPresenter and KWord are not that
> > small applications :-)) without knowing anything about CORBA and
> > KOM/OpenParts.
> > 
> > So you really don't need to know that complicated stuff to write a KOffice
> > app.
> 
> So will you write a "How to develop in KOffice" tutorial?
> 
> I think the biggest problem with stepping into KOffice development is time.
> KOffice is very complex.  If you have 8 hours (give or take a few hours) that
> you can spend continuously studying the code, I think it is manageable.  If
> you only can allocate 1 or 2 hours at any given time, it becomes quite a bit
> more difficult.
> 
> A tutorial (or even a brief "Here are the parts and here are what they do"
> document) would go a LOOOOONG way towards getting other people to work on
> KOffice.

I don't have the time for that at the moment, but if someone does it - go on
with it! :-) BTW: I always took KImage as "Template" for starting a new
KOffice part. This is an easy way for it.

Ciao, Reggie

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