We have integrated openoffice pretty tightly into a ui SWT application. Writer works for us as a renderer, and we have had and still come across some ui pitfalls. The biggest would be documenation. We opted for a non bean solution, so we had difficulties finding documentation. For example the ContainerFactory and OfficeWindow, are deprecated, I can't find a replacement for them, or even documentation for them.
Then the second biggest problem is that the bean is file centric and we are doing in memory rendering. The are no documentated ways to refresh the bean except with files. We finally got a solution working with named frames, but we are still even today having some windowing problems (disposed bridges throwing exceptions when windows are released). Certain things like trying to remove all the ui components, are tricky, and not completely documented. For example there really seems to be no way to permanently remove the status bar. As soon as a user selects something, it comes back. I would be happy give you further details on any of these points if you would like. On the positive side, I am happy with it. I wish the turnaround on bugs was a wee bit faster. This is the sort of thing that might make by boss look for another solution, which really isn't something I want. regards kent gibson --- Carsten Driesner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I currently investigate where we could improve the > awt toolkit API (for > more information look for com.sun.star.awt in the > IDL documentation). > For the next months this API is the best way for > (extension) developers > to get a good UI integration into OpenOffice.org. I > would like to hear > your opinion about this API. > What do you desperately miss (controls, classes, > functions)? Which areas > need the most work? How do you feel about the naming > of interfaces and > functions? > > I would like to hear your opinion, so please give > feedback. The document > with all the results will soon be available on > OpenOffice.org. > > Regards, > Carsten > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
