On May 10, 2010, at 5:53 PM, RA Brown wrote: > [email protected] wrote: >> Hello, I would like to know if Open Office for iPad is planned ? Thanks. > > Porting to the iPAD would require special approval from Apple and is not > likely to happen.
That depends on what you mean by "porting". The full OOo function set is too rich and complex to make a tolerable iPad application (far too many menus and submenus), and even in a cut-down version, any screen/keyboard/mouse code would have to be redesigned and recoded in Objective-C and Cocoa Touch, while any other code would have to be put into C, C++, Objective-C, or Objective-C++, but, depending on the state of the code for the Mac OS X version of OOo (which I cannot speak to at all), it might be easy or difficult to create a decent cut-down version that would meet Apple's requirements -- though probably difficult. It may also be that OOo is too large for the iPad, which does not have file-based virtual memory. I think it would be strategically wiser for someone to design an iPad application from scratch that uses OpenDocument for file storage. -- John W Kennedy "You can, if you wish, class all science-fiction together; but it is about as perceptive as classing the works of Ballantyne, Conrad and W. W. Jacobs together as the 'sea-story' and then criticizing _that_." -- C. S. Lewis. "An Experiment in Criticism" --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
