Re: [libreoffice-users] Development of Extensions for LibreOffice

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 <samorris@netspace.net.au>
> To: michael.meeks@suse.com 
> Cc: LibreOffice Users <users@global.libreoffice.org>; Kohei Yoshida <KYoshida@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.
>
>
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