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

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