i have unsubscribed, please take me off your email list On 1/6/06, Edward Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rigel wrote: > > Daniel, has pointed out, as I understand it, that 90% of the office > > suite sits on a data processing component that allows the application > > to do its work. The other 10% is skin's for the applications buttons > > and windows, as well as some exporting functionality. It is this > > integration that allows for the transfer of images to text documents, > > to spreadhseets, to the presentation. > > I think trying to modify the existing code base to run a lite version of > OOo, especially one designed to run on embedded devices, is the wrong > approach. It's like taking a satellite designed to run in space and > patching it to run under water. > > A more realistic approach that applies to both embedded OOo AND an OOo > viewer, is to start from scratch, with just the ODF specification, and > work your way up from there, using the existing code base as a reference > and nothing more. Initially, you could just grab the text from the file > and display it for a simple text view of the data. Once that's done, > you can add bits of formatting as is practical for the target platform. > Rather than starting with bloated code (bloated for the target > platform, not in general), you start with something lite and add to it > from there. > > Just because it's a different code base does not make it any less > OpenOffice.org. If the project is started here and has the backing of > the OOo project, then it still qualified to be OOo (Lite or whatever the > name/goals of the project are). > > Regards, > Ed > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
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