On 17 May 2011, at 00:58, Giuseppe Briotti wrote:

Hi Guiseppe

> 
> TKS Andreas, in the meanwhile I setup Eclipse and FOP packages in a project, 
> and started to take a look at the code and structure. 
> 
> I didn't find a class diagram or some overview documentation (just a 
> "bigpicture" page :-) ).

I see... and must admit that such diagrams have been neglected somewhat. :-/
I personally have tried to document a part on the Wiki that I came to 
understand quite well after spending some time in the code (= property 
handling).

I still have plans to do something similar for the FO tree parsing. I do 
remember having described this pretty thoroughly in a rather long rant on 
fop-dev in the past. If I succeed in locating it, I will post the link back 
here.
Some basics of the core logic used by the layout engine are documented pretty 
well on the Wiki, but a sort of comprehensive overview is still lacking. 

For now, if something is unclear, just chime back in here, and we'll see what 
we can offer. Should you feel the irresistible urge to further extend the Wiki, 
you are obviously very much invited to do so.

I personally learned a lot from simply debugging a few sessions, placing 
breakpoints at lines I was interested in, and following the flow from there.



Regards

Andreas

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