Marc Santhoff wrote:
Am Sonntag, den 08.04.2007, 21:25 +0200 schrieb Mathias Bauer:
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.
I expected an answer like this. Use cases for this scenario are too rare
to expect something in the near future ... users and programmers will
have to live with some additional docs then. ;)
but it shows that you have thought about it and i like the idea. It
should be taken as a pointer for future designs. We should think about
extensions and should always ask if a generic approach can make sense.
Can it be of interest to integrate in existing or extend functional
areas with own implementations via extensions? If yes and if it won't be
a performance killer we should prefer generic designs wherever it is
possible.
We have already a lot of useful service provider interfaces (SPI) where
it is possible to integrate in the office via extensions. This SPIs make
it interesting to implement extensions (e.g. calc add-ins, add-ons,
spellchecker, filter, ...).
Juergen
Many thanks,
Marc
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