Juergen Schmidt pisze:
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.
Yes, but that would be fair enough.
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.
Well, I don't think that a dialog editor is that important.
Much more important is the fact is that there is no way to extend the
existing UI, for example to have a tree with checkboxes (used in many
packages for configuration options). At least it's not doable in Java
(or nobody knows how to do it, which has roughly the same effect). So
having more controls is what is important for developers, actually. If
it was possible to extend the UI from Java, I wouldn't mind using the
most verbose AWT/UNO code to instantiate it. ;)
That's the missing functionality #1 from my point of view...
Regards
Marcin
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