[GSOC]Slide Layout Extendibility :Weekly Report #2

Hello Everyone,

Here is the  
Link<http://vishvbrahmbhatt.wordpress.com/2013/07/01/slide-layout-extendibility-weekly-report-2/>
to my blog for the weekly report update.

Thanks & Regards,
Vishv Brahmbhatt


On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 6:34 PM, Vishv Brahmbhatt <
vishvbrahmbhatt19@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
>
> Before the beginning of  this week ,I was debugging on impress slide
> layouts.Basically,I got to understand the mechanism of creation of slide
> layouts in the "normal" page,in the master pages like "notes" and "handout"
> and much more.
>
> Currently in the slide layouts, Placeholder object's height,width,position
> are hard-coded. So,I did following things during this week:
>
> +So at first ,I started with creation of XML file  which stores following
> information:
> (1) Layout Type
> (2) "PresObj" Kind
> (3) Position co-ordinates of "PresObj"
> (4) Size of "PreObj"(Width and Height)
>
> + I have started coding XML parser, which will read this information from
> XML file and set the appropriate parameters in the function
> "CalcAutoLayoutRectangles" (This function  calculates/sets  the Top
> Position,Height and Width of Rectangle "PresObj" used.) And this will
> parser will help in bringing configurability with Slide Layouts.
>
> + So XML parser should be fully completed, probably by "Monday" or
> "Tuesday"(mostly it should get completed by this weekend).
>
> + Next week,I will work on  understanding "Slide Mater View" and  on using
> "Slide Mater View" to edit the current built-in layouts.
>
> Regards,
> Vishv Brahmbhatt