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.


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