Michel Renon wrote:
In order to work on that problem, I would like to have some technical advise about what can be implemented or not.
Hi Michel, as a matter of fact (though a bit tongue-in-cheek) - this is software, so anything goes. The question rather is how much effort is it. ;)
(just to avoid wasting time by designing things that can't be implemented)
Hmm. So in the past there were a few designs that did not get implemented immediately - but sat there looking really good, and eventually inspired someone to hack them up. But I see your point.
Well this mail is mostly for Thorsten as you're the official mentor of Impress/Draw.
I'm not - but I happily answer still. :)
- Is it possible to implement some visual changes on objects in slides ? ex : add some small widget beside (or inside?) an object to indicate a status or to show a popup to activate some changes. Or have a special border. These widgets/borders would be shown via a menu command, or via a mouse hover, only while designing the slide.
Yes, that is possible - there's a concept called SmartTag in Impress,
that is e.g. used to implement this four-way icon at the presentation
placeholder objects ('insert table/chart/picture/movie'), or for
editing motion path animations. So the base technology for that is
there.
- Is it possible to implement some visual changes on every single line/ some lines of a textfield ? It's a detailed version of the previous point : can a line in a textfield have some widget ? or be drawn with some special border ?
In general yes, though slightly more involved.
- today, the 'animation objects' are linked to object in slides, but is the reverse also true ? ie if user modify a slide object, can the animation object be updated automatically ?
Not sure I get the idea - are you referring to changes e.g. to master pages, that then translate to all slides using it (that is one aspect of the original question / task Janit was looking into)?
The answers may have 4 values : -1- it can be implemented immediately, no changes required in VCL
This one. ~All the work needed is in sd.
And two open questions : - In this whole subject, what objects are linked to ODF format ? (ie : what can be changed without changing the file format)
From the above - nothing should affect the file format.
- what are the technical limitations related to animations in Impress ?
Going back to my initial comment - the sky is the limit. Without concrete questions though, hard to answer specifically. ;) Cheers, -- Thorsten
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