From: Martin Sevior (msevior@seviorpc.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Fri Nov 07 2003 - 00:46:32 EST
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 15:18, Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
> At 2:13 PM +1100 11/7/03, Martin Sevior wrote:
> >No. The ideas are all in my head. I have an idea of how this could
> >happen utilizing most of the Abi codebase.
>
> And that may well be possible, but I think you would end up
> with a program that wouldn't work like people wanted and that would
> need major work later on.
>
>
> >The construction of text part would be all done with the Abi codebase
> >with input being limited to text boxes.
>
> Right - but that's the SIMPLEST part of the program!
>
>
> First thing you need to do is determine the metaphor - are
> you a "slide-based" tool or an "outline-based" one? Each has
> advantages and disadvantages...
>
The metaphore is a "slide based" I think. At least I think that is what
PowerPoint is and I want a program like Powerpoint.
> Then you should consider how "masters" work. Are they
> initial "templates" or are they true "style sheets"?
OK I see what you mean. In my view they would be styles. We would
enlarge our style coverages to allow per fl_SlideLayout properties.
> Also, how do
> you track per-slide changes to template elements - or don't you?
>
In general per slide changes would not change the templates. That would
happen via something like our style dialog.
> etc...
>
Ask more! This is very enlightening.
Martin
>
> Leonard
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