Re: [Fwd: AbiWord incompatibility]

On Sat, 20 Aug 2005, Robert Staudinger wrote:

> Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 15:46:17 +0200
> From: Robert Staudinger <robert.staudinger@gmail.com>
> To: abiword-dev <abiword-dev@abisource.com>
> Subject: [Fwd: AbiWord incompatibility]
>
>
> This showed up in one of my not AbiWord related mailboxes.
>
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: Mohammed Hameed Mazhar <majjuvoip_2003@operamail.com>
> > To: abiword-dev-request@abisource.com
> > Cc: support@wamasoft.com
> > Subject: AbiWord incompatibility
> > Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 17:34:34 +0430
> >
> > Autotyping Pro v1.3 is not being prompted in AbiWord latest version
> > though it's perfectly ok with other apps like MS WordPad, NotePad and
> > MS Word.

Did Autotyping Pro ever work with previous versions of Abiword?
If so please let us know as this might be something we could track down
and fix. However if Autotyping Pro does not work with Abiword then
only they, the developers of Autotyping Pro are the ones best suited to
figuring out why. Their program is closed source so we cannot figure out
what they are doing but Abiword is Open Source and they can see what might
need to be fixed and if they could provide clear explanations of what
unusual behaviour their program is using then perhaps we could help them.

> > In fact AbiWord is much more beautiful than MS applications in terms
> > of flexibility, ease of operation and user-friendly interface.

Thank you for your generous compliments, we are glad you enjoy using
abiword.

> > But Autotyping Pro has a problem only with AbiWord, as I have noticed.

The other programs are probably using the standard built in Rich Text
Widget supplied by Microsoft where as Abiword uses a Canvas of its own.

> > The http://www.wamasoft.com application Autotyping Pro v1.3 is not at
> > all getting prompted despite lot of troubleshooting done in both the
> > apps ----- AbiWord and Autotyping Pro.

http://www.wamasoft.com/autotyping/

> > However, Flashpeak's Intellicomplete is perfectly ok with AbiWord.

Good to know, perhaps with that information the Autotyping pro developers
could figure out how to use a more generic API for interacting with other
program like how Flashspeak does.

> > Please help us out and suggest what we have to do for enabling
> > Autotyping Pro v1.3 prompting in AbiWord.

I am afraid there is very little the abiword developers can do to solve
this issue without detailed information from the developers of Autotyping
Pro but if they could track down the issue and give us the specific
infromatin needed we might be able to help them.

> > Email reply would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Md.Hameed Mazhar majjuvoip_2003@operamail.com August 19, 2005 at 6.32
> > pm IST

Sorry there is not more we can do. Thanks for using Abiword.

Sincerely

Alan Horkan

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Received on Mon Aug 22 16:32:43 2005