Hi :) WoooHooo, C++ is much better and working with the devs in LO means the code can be tested more widely than if it was just written as a purely in-house Extension. Hopefully resulting in better code and better support for that code for whatever the company needed. Regards from Tom :)
>________________________________ > From: Stephen Morris <samor...@netspace.net.au> >To: michael.me...@suse.com >Cc: LibreOffice Users <users@global.libreoffice.org>; Kohei Yoshida ><kyosh...@novell.com> >Sent: Tuesday, 5 February 2013, 20:11 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Development of Extensions for LibreOffice > >On 02/06/2013 04:56 AM, Michael Meeks wrote: >> Hi Stephen, >> >> On Mon, 2013-02-04 at 06:57 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: >>> I have Eclipse with the OpenOffice plugin to enable development of >>> extensions for Libreoffice. Can someone tell where I can get >>> documentation on the Libreoffice Calc internals and how to interface >>> specifically to things like the Pivot Table dialogue so that it can be >>> extended. I want to work around the fact that Pivot Tables in Calc 3.6.5 >>> are functionally not equivalent to Excel 2002 let alone Excel 2010? >> Oh - that's bad :-) >> >>> I was also thinking of developing these extensions in Java, are >>> there any issues with doing so? >> Well - if you develop this in Java then it's unlikely to get into the >> code code. Also - you'll have a rather grim time trying to get >> everything you want, and (I suspect) you'll find embedding into >> arbitrary dialogs is not really easy at all. >> >> So - I -strongly- recommend just checking out the code, compiling it >> and poking the developers list for some code pointers to that dialog. >> >> Adding the features you need to the core, so everyone can enjoy them >> out of the box is almost certainly the best way to achieve your goals - >> and (after all) C++ is not so distantly related to Java :-) >Hi Michael, > I have already downloaded to source code and had considered modifying the >code directly, but thought and extension might be easier and simpler, but if >writing an extension means that it won't be guaranteed of making the product >then modifying the code is the better way to go. I haven't looked at C++ in a >long time but it shouldn't be that difficult to pick up again, and it should >be easy to get the code suite into my Eclipse development environment once I >update it for C++. I'm also running out of time for relating Calc's >compatibility to Excel 2002 as in April/May the organisation I work for is >upgrading to 2010, so I may just have to develop for compatibilty with that. I >have 2010 installed on this machine at home, but it is running under Windows >and I'll be doing my development work under Linux, and last time I looked >Office 2010 doesn't run under Wine nor CrossOver Office. > >regards, >Steve > >> >> Does that make sense ? >> >> Thanks ! >> >> Michael. >> > > >-- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org >Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > > > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
