Re: Copy/paste

Hi Simon,

Thanks for your information.
Yes, so we need to improve the import filter to fully support text box
Copy/paste.

I will look into that and give you a detail update, thanks
I have already read some about fl_FrameLayout::_lookupProperties while
prepare for GSOC.

Vincent

On 4/23/12 2:52 AM, "Simon Larochelle" <larochelle.simon.1@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Hi Vincent,
>
> Let me just give you some general information that might help (I have
> not yet started to work on the border properties part of bug 12591).
> When we use copy & paste, we export to RTF (copy) and then reimport
> from RTF (paste).
>
> For frames, the RTF importer is defined in
> ie_imp_RTFObjectsAndPicts.cpp and we can see which frame parameters
> can be imported by looking at the function IE_Imp_RTF::addFrame. By
> comparing with the complete list of frame properties (the best place
> to get this list is by looking at fl_FrameLayout::_lookupProperties),
> we can find out which properties needs to be added to the RTF importer
> in order to have a fully working copy/paste command. I haven't looked
> too much at the exporter (it is defined in
> ie_exp_RTF_listenerWriteDoc.cpp), but we can guess that the properties
> that haven't been defined in the import filter haven't been defined in
> the export filter either.
>
> Simon
>
>
> 2012/4/18 vincent vincent <vincent.abiword@gmail.com>:
>> Hi Simon,
>>
>> What's about your investigation about this bug?
>> http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=12591
>>
>> I also focus on this bug last week (it is related with my GSOC
>> project: Text box improvements ). In fact, most of the properties are
>> missing while copy & paste.
>>
>>
>> I put a long time to track the process of 'Copy & Paste'. At the very
>> begin, I was thinking the two reasons which cause this issue:
>> 1. the properties missing in Copy process (Missing the property to Clipboard
>> )
>> 2. the properties missing in Paste process (Render issue)
>>
>>
>> But I find that the detailed implementation is very complex, so I want
>> to hear more about your advices, Correct me if I have sth wrong.
>>
>>
>> thanks,
>> Vincent
>>
>>
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Received on Mon Apr 23 12:14:26 2012