Marc Santhoff schrieb: > Hi, > > I ask myself if it is possible to do some special tasks with an > extension. > > Imagine having written the core service for a new type of writer field > as an external service using some scripting engine like python. This new > field should be presented:- > > - to the user in the field insertion dialog (CTRL-F2) > > - to the programmer as part of the service structure he is used to, e.g. > "com.sun.star.text.FieldMaster.FancyUserField" > > The core part would then be triggered at creation, update and refresh > actions of the document holding an instance of this new field. > > Can this be done?
Theoretically yes but it lacks some infrastructure. Writer must provide an extendable factory for text fields. We have something comparable (text fields assigned to meta data) on our agenda for the forseeable but probably not very near future. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
