On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg wrote:
> Jacob Floyd wrote: > > On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 13:30:07 +0100, Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Jacob, > >> > >>regarding your interest in developing a new toolkit or chrome for OOo, I > >>am wundering about what the abstraction level will be and if we can > >>reuse something already available. Personal being a friend of domain > >>specific languages, I would favor XUL or other (XML) GUI description > >>languages. Do you have an opinion on that? > >> > >> > >>Kay > > > > > > I was thinking that XUL, or XUL-like files would be an excellent > > choice for the GUI description. I'm not an expert on any of these > perfect. So, you may be interested in doing some prototyping? > > > technologies (XUL, UNO, ...) and so It'll take me a little longer to > > get any substantial code going. Oh, and I'm going to have to wait till > > about July to submit any code to the project because I'm a minor and > > thus the JCA won't be valid until then (when I turn 18). That and > That's fine. > > school seems to like to pile on the homework everytime I start > > something new. > > I still need to read this 1000+ page developer guide, and I heard a > > new one was supposed to be coming out with 2.0. (Is that correct? and > > will there be any major changes to it that will affect me? Is there a > > way I can just get this new version now, so that I don't have to > > RE-read anything?) > Everything in the current version of the dev. guide will certainly be > valid for the upcomming version. Actually, I have to admit that I don't > know what exactly the differences will be, despite certainly covering > the new UNO features and additional APIs. Juergen, can you comment on this? > > > Another problem I'll have is I don't have all the requirements to > > build OpenOffice on either OS X or Win. I don't have apple developer > > tools (xcode now) and I don't have VS.net 2003. Does anyone know > > what's required to get the VS.net C++ toolkit 2003 working? What's > > missing. I should be able to develop for a while only compiling my > > source, but in a few months I'll start modifying OOo source, which > > will leave me in the lurch. Any suggestions? > AFAIR for windows, you only need the MS SDK and some GNU tools, which > are AFAIK available for free. Please someone correct me if I am wrong. > For doing Mac builds, Dan certainly knows what's needed, the info also > seems to be available on http://porting.openoffice.org/. You'll need both the BSD Layer installed, and the Developer Tools CD installed. The Dev Tools CD should have come wtih your copy of OS X, otherwise, I think you can register at connect.applet.com for ADC (ssh, if you don't tell that you're not 18, I won't) as a Student and get download access to the Dev Tools ISOs. Dan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
