Re: Embedding goffice charts in abiword

Le mercredi 23 mars 2005 à 13:27 +0100, Robert Staudinger a écrit :
> Maybe i didn't explain my thoughts properly.

I understand your point perfectly. Just I am not sure it is easy to
implement.

> What would you think of keeping all the chart creation, editing ... in
> gnumeric and only allow import of readymade charts in abiword? Of
> course we should still be able to trigger the creation of a new chart
> from abi, but the work itself would be done in gnumeric.
> So we would avoid code duplication and offer integraion with
> gnumeric's full functionality.
>
> The "only" thing that abi would have to do would be to display the charts.
>
> The entire .gnumeric file could maybe be stored inside the .abw,
> written to a temporary file while edited and imported back into the
> .abw on save. This is of course a bit hackish but it doesn't require a
> fancy component model and should therefore work on all platforms.
>
> On the abi side we could so concentrate on polishing the interaction
> and maybe create a chart import dialog which shows previews of all the
> charts that a .gnumeric file contains.

This is were things become difficult, how do you extract the charts from
the file? Only gnumeric knows how to do that.

> As a side effect for our users all this might also strengthen the
> "office suite feeling".

That would be really great.
Received on Wed Mar 23 13:35:45 2005