Re: Generic Embeddable plugins.

>
> On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 09:45 +1100, msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au wrote:
>> Hi Dom and Jean,
>> I've thought about most of your points for sometime.
>>
>> Dom, the one thing I don't have a solution for is scroll-bars in the
>> embedded object. However in the case of Word Processing document, I
>> think
>> scroll bars are not wanted. I would rather increase the size of the
>> object
>> and relayout.
>>
>
> Erm, the component itself would add its own scrollbars. AbiWord has
> nothing to do with it.
>
>> The UI I'm suggesting for this round is extremely simple. The external
>> program is fork/exec'd with the data used by AbiWord to draw the
>> component.
>> Like our AbiGimp plugin. So I imagine Gnumeric firing up with the
>> contents
>> loaded. On every save from Gnumeric the image displayed in AbiWord is
>> updated.
>
> OK, so you are definately not talking about a Component architecture
> here. See my mail titled "Generic Embeddable plugins - Take 2"
>
> AbiGimp has nothing to do with embedding as far as I can see.
>
> [snip]
>
>
>> My vision is to relayout every time the user presses "save" in the
>> external application. We simply stat the filename we pass to the
>> program and relayout every time the file changes.
>
> Won't work if there is no file involved.
>
> Anyway, I think this discussion would be a lot clearer if the definition
> of "embedding" was stated, as I think martin has a totally different
> idea of what he wants to achieve than, say, Dom and Juan.
>
>

My vision is very simple. An external library can draw into the abiword
canvas and keep it's representation in the abiword document.

This library may in fact invoke and out of process of program to get the
content to store in abiword.

It might be a full-blown ActiveX or bonobo control.

Or it might be a a command line argument ala...

Gnumeric --to mydata.svg mydata.gnumeric

The mydata.svg is then displayed in abiword. The mydata.gnumeric is stored
in abiword.

Consequently we must store the contents of the external data somewhere in
abiword. This means that we the external library/ program/whatever can
always be sent this data that was the root of the viewable in abiword.

Cheers

Martin
> Bye!
> Marc
>
>
Received on Sat Jan 15 01:14:48 2005