Kohei Yoshida wrote: > Hello Andreas, > > On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 09:55 +0200, Andreas Schlüns wrote: > >> SFX_FILTER_STARONEFILTER maps to 0x80000 ... means 3RDPARTYFILTER. >> If its set the corresponding filter is a real UNO component. >> All filters which does not have these flag set are "old style C++ >> filters". They can be called within the SFX environment only. > > Thanks. This is the information I was looking for. > > Additional question. Do you guys encourage all new filters to be a real > UNO component (with 3RDPARTYFILTER flag)? In other words, are there > cases where the old style C++ filters should still be used for new > filters, or are the old style filters just for legacy filters only?
Please don't add any old style filters. In fact we would love to change existing ones to become "real filters". I wouldn't exclude that this might happen in a not so far 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]