Hi Michael, Michael Meeks <michael.me...@suse.com> writes: > No problem, but please reply-to-all so we CC the list, for others to > find out what is going on & be helped by your questions too :-) [ feel > free to CC the list on your reply to this ;-].
sorry it wasn't meant to be a private message, I need to check better next time. >> So it's roughly something like MS OLE CFB >> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd942138%28v=prot.13%29.aspx >> in-file filesystem for Word and PowerPoint? > > Correct; but -much- more broken than OLE ;-) I see. >> Is there any plan to move away from RDF files and use something >> simpler, e.g. XML file describing all those types? > > Sure - we'd love to do that; OTOH it requires some concentrated > hacking for a while. Good to hear that. > What are you trying to achieve though ? could you not re-use the store > code ? and/or (better) the higher level type introspection APIs / > interfaces ? The ideal situation would be that - I write my application in a dynamic programming language with no dependencies on libreoffice code; - I deploy my application on target machines where libreoffice is already installed; - My application reads the type library (RDB or better a simple XML alternative) of the actually installed libreoffice on the target machines (possibly different versions). - My application communicates with libreoffice via UNO using the correct version of the type library (which I didn't exactly know before installing my application on the target machine). So "the only" intersection between my application and libreoffice would be the RDB file. The rest would go over the UNO protocol. At the moment, I parse IDL files and hope (or have to make sure) that the installed libreoffice is compatible. To an extend, I could probably build the type library dynamically by querying all interfaces instead of reading the RDB file, but I think that would be unnecessarily slow. There seems to be some Python bridge to libreoffice. Does it use the store code underneath a FFI? Cheers, Tomas _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
