Philipp Lohmann wrote:
Marcin Miłkowski wrote:
Hi,
some 3 years ago, there were preliminary experiments with using XUL in
OpenOffice.org, and XUL was supposed to replace VCL, eventually. What
is the status of these plans?
The plan was to embed XUL into a VCL window (thereby having teh
capabilty to use XUL dialogs in OOo.
VCL makes developing UI quite a tedious task, and is not extendable
outside the core, so Java extension developers (like me) tend to use
Agreed.
Java Swing which looks ugly but at least is extendable. With XUL, I
could probably have more "native-looking" UI elements...
The status of those plans is basically "on hold indefinitely". Currently
nobody has the time it seems. As far as I remember there were however
plans to make the basic dialog editor available as editing tool for XML
files (specifically aimed at extensions if I remember correctly) that
would then be executable by OOo's UNO toolkit. I don't know how far that
is, but probably someone on the list knows ?
you can use the dialog editor in the office to create your own dialogs
and can export this dialogs for example in your NetBeans project or
anywhere else. Later on you can use this dialog from Java or any other
UNO language in your own extension. It works but it's still not really
satisfying. A lot of controls are missing, no layout manager until today
(there is a layout manager project ongoing), ... We have a lot of space
for improvements here.
That is the current situation
Juergen
Kidn regards, pl
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