Ideally, I’d like to work with the Open Office source code for the main app on OS X. I was attempting to set up a working Xcode project (which I prefer over Eclipse and I’m interested in the Aqua build), so I’d be able to run and debug the application like a typical Cocoa app but there isn’t an obvious way to set up an project since there is quite a bit of source code and the class documentation is a bit hard to find (for me, navigating the Wiki to find relevant info was not easy).
Piecing it all together by looking through the source code with no knowledge of a project of this size is going to be quite time consuming so I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction. Is there only a thin native Cocoa layer in the main app? Is the textview used for documents native (does it use NSTextView?) I’d like to learn more about the primary C++ classes used in the app since it is quite easy to interoperate with C++ from Objective-C. Thanks for responding. > On Apr 24, 2015, at 3:21 PM, Ariel Constenla-Haile <arie...@apache.org> wrote: > > Hello Anthony, > > On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 06:35:00PM -0400, ANTHONY CRUZ wrote: >> I’ve been digging through the source code in the Aqua build. I’m >> mainly and ObjC developer. I’d love to be able to set up an Xcode >> project and contribute to the project. >> >> After looking for a really long time for an app delegate (not loaded >> from Interface Builder) I was able to find vclapp.mm. What are the >> primary view classes in Apache open office for displaying the >> documents? I’ve been looking for the class responsible for displaying >> the contents of files (like a word document). I was hoping to find >> a controller for a document that has a NSTextView property but I can’t >> seem to find it. >> >> The Developer’s guide mostly has Java examples and when I search >> I keep finding pages in the Wiki that are possibly out of date. Is the >> document controller/text view done in Java? Or is there C++ or >> Objective-C API for opening document windows? I know I can turn off >> the Java runtime in Open Office preferences so i was hoping I could >> avoid Java. >> >> Is there a C++ class for opening document files (analogous to an >> NSDocument subclass, in a pure Objective-C app). I’d love to write an >> Objective-C wrapper around it. > > I don't understand if you want to work OpenOffice source code, or just > with its API. If the later, documents are loaded using the Desktop > service, which implements the interface css.frame.XComponentLoader > http://www.openoffice.org/api/docs/common/ref/com/sun/star/frame/Desktop.html > <http://www.openoffice.org/api/docs/common/ref/com/sun/star/frame/Desktop.html> > http://www.openoffice.org/api/docs/common/ref/com/sun/star/frame/XComponentLoader.html > > <http://www.openoffice.org/api/docs/common/ref/com/sun/star/frame/XComponentLoader.html> > > The API is the same, you just have to implement the Java examples from > the SDK in C++; look for example at > http://markmail.org/message/llhnser4nmvb7jfx > <http://markmail.org/message/llhnser4nmvb7jfx> > http://markmail.org/message/cl356hyng5utkuif > <http://markmail.org/message/cl356hyng5utkuif> > > You need to set up the SDK environment in order to build that examples > (but you don't need to build nor study OpenOffice source code if you are > just working with the API). > > > Regards > -- > Ariel Constenla-Haile > La Plata, Argentina
