Subject: Re: Table workaround
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Tue Dec 19 2000 - 15:06:47 CST
On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
>
> >It occurred to me, that if would suffice (for me) if AbiWord were able
> >to insert e.g. part of a gnumeric worksheet. Something like OLE...
>
> Well, a few people (Martin and myself) are working on making ABI component
> aware. This would mean that we could use bonobo on Gnome, KParts once a KDE
> port is checked in (f.y.i. someone actually almost has a KDE port done or is
> *really* good at manipulating screenshots), OLE2 on Win32, etc... This will
> take us a little time to do correctly.
>
We might get a closer approximation to what's needed by embedding gtkHtml
which does have tables support. Eventually we will use GtkHtml (and
oppenoffice, kword, and Lyx) for clues on how best to implement Tables in
Abi.
Cheers
Martin
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