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

Hi :)  
Thanks for the answer.  I think the question was beyond the scope of the Users List and i don't 
know if anyone got around to pointing the person to the devs lists.  

Err, was there a slight typo in the last paragraph?  Seems like grep got typed as grok?  
"which you can grok for user-visible strings"
Perhaps would have been more generic as "look for"?  

Regards from
Tom :)  





> ________________________________
> From: Michael Meeks <michael.meeks@suse.com>
> To: Stephen Morris <samorris@netspace.net.au> 
> Cc: LibreOffice Users <users@global.libreoffice.org>; Kohei Yoshida <KYoshida@novell.com>; 
> libreoffice@lists.freedesktop.org 
> Sent: Monday, 18 March 2013, 11:54
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Development of Extensions for LibreOffice
>
> Hi Stephen,
>
> On Mon, 2013-03-18 at 08:34 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote:
> >      I am having all sorts of problems with the source code in Eclipse. I 
> > have created a new blank C++ project in Eclipse and imported the entire 
> > sc directory into that project. Subsequently I have opened 
> > dpgroupdlg.cxx in the editor (I'm also not sure why Eclipse displays all 
> > directories duplicated) and Eclipse is displaying errors on just about 
> > every statement in that file.
>
>     Well - that's really Eclipse' problem :-) can you turn off it's bogus
> error display ? I guess getting help with Eclipse would be a good thing
> to do. Potentially you don't want to create a project - but just use it
> to edit the specific files.
>
> >      I think the first thing I need to do is to find all the include 
> > files and add those directories into the include file path in the 
> > project properties. One of the problems I have is that the statement 
> > "com::sun::star::sheet::DataPilotFieldGroupBy::SECONDS," is producing an 
> > error complaining that symbol SECONDS is not found.
>
>     This is from an UNO / generated header. It seems highly unlikely that
> Eclipse is going to do a perfect job of building LibreOffice. As such, I
> would use it as a syntax-colouring text editor - not in it's all-seeing
> monster mode ;-)
>
> > How I  configure eclipse to consider the idl file to be the same as
> > the hpp file so that these symbols get resolved?
>
>     I have no idea. You need to edit the code with some sort of source code
> editor, Elipse is one option. If it can't control it's urges to try to
> understand the entire (apparently not built) code-base then I'd
> recommend using something else ;-)
>
> >      I am also having difficulty determining which dp module equates to 
> > the dialog that gets displayed for variables that are dragged to the 
> > pivot table layout areas, to specify the attributes of those variables. 
> > Is there any documentation anywhere that explains what each module 
> > within the suite actually does and how they relate to what is actually 
> > displayed by Libreoffice for each function it performs?
>
>     Each module ? each top-level directory has README - patches to improve
> them appreciated. Sadly there is no further good structural
> documentation at all.
>
>     In general - if you want to go from the UI -> the source code, you need
> to go via the .src files - which you can grok for user-visible strings,
> and then look for the defined names of those in the .hrc files - which
> are shared between resources and C++ and hence into the relevant source
> code and down to a widget.
>
>     Hope that helps :-)
>
>         Michael.
>
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