Hello Patrick, On Monday 18 October 2010, 21:52, Patrick W. McDonald wrote: > Hey, > > My name is Patrick McDonald, I'm a student at Longwood University, and for > my software engineering class the professor has assigned us a project that > requires us to make a contribution to an open source project of our > choice. I decided to work on OpenOffice, since I'm fairly familiar with > the software. He suggested I do something simple, such as adding > functionality to the Writer's formula bar or something along those lines.
AFAIK Writer's formula bar is not accessible to API clients, this means you will have to deal with OOo source code, what is no good idea to your assignment: you should try to use OOo API for your task (so you don't need to mess with OOo source code). For example, it is possible to add new functions to OOo Calc, developing an add-in (very easy to do with the OOo API plug-in for NetBeans IDE). > With that in mind, I'd like to ask if there's any particular formulas you > would like to see supported by the formula bar, or barring that if there > are any other ideas that you have that would be at around the same level > of difficulty to implement. Thanks for any responses, and I look forward > to helping improve OpenOffice. Please join the mailing list for API related topics, and the one for extensions development. You can subscribe by sending an e-mail to the following addresses and following the instructions in the mail you get back: dev-subscr...@api.openoffice.org dev-subscr...@extensions.openoffice.org You can ask there about any doubts concerning your OOo-API-based project. Regards -- Ariel Constenla-Haile La Plata, Argentina
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