Subject: Re: want to help
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Tue Jan 02 2001 - 07:33:24 CST
On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Yawitz wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I would like to know if there is a way I can help with AbiWord. I am an
> inexperienced programmer, but I understand C and C++. I've worked in
> Java for a while. I don't know where to start figuring out a large
> project like this, but if someone wants to give me direction, I think I
> can learn.
>
We are always looking for help. I think another good way to get started
would be to export field text into our HTML exporter. Right now we can't
export the list label fields to html so any lists in Abi don't comeout
right when exported to HTML. It would be good to fix this.
Look at the code in src/text/fmt/xp/fp_Run.cpp around
fp_FieldRun::calculateValue(void)
for where the text in a field is generated.
Look at the code in
src/wp/impexp/xp/ie_exp_HTML.cpp in method:
UT_Bool s_HTML_Listener::populate(PL_StruxFmtHandle /*sfh*/,
const PX_ChangeRecord * pcr)
then at the code at:
case PX_ChangeRecord::PXT_InsertObject:
You'll notice that nothing is outputted for case PTO_Field.
We need some code there :-)
If you don't want to do this then someone else should so let us know if
you plan to work on this project.
Cheers
Martin
PS. I'll probabally put some code in fp_Run.cpp to be able to calculate
field values for all exporters. I need this for our RTF exporter. I've
undertaken to extend it to read/write fields and List structures.
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