Hi Matteo, On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 10:24:55AM -0400, Matteo Campanelli <matteo.campanelli@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm working on adding text background color to Draw text frames but I suspect I'm having troubles finding my way through the basics of the whole application's architecture.
In general, TextFrame is a Writer concept, what you want to improve here is the shape text of drawinglayer shapes, I guess. ;-)
Browsing through code in sd/, I haven't found anything that seemed to deal specifically with text properties. I suppose most of the responsibility for text features is in some external module (editeng, by any chance?), but I don't understand where it is that Draw-specific code makes use of these features.
Yes, it's editeng that provides the shape text functionality in Impress/Draw.
Could anyone point to any documentation/code I could look at or could anyone help me get clarity on this point?
include/editeng/eeitem.hxx provides the identifiers for editeng properties, EE_CHAR_GRABBAG and EE_CHAR_CASEMAP are quite recent additions, they may serve as a good example on how to add a new editeng character (i.e. when the property is not for the paragraph, but only for a portion of it) property. That's the document model. Once you are done with that, the next steps are dealing with UNO API, layout, filters, tests, UI -- but one step at a time. :-) Miklos
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