Re: queries regarding libspreadsheet

[Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu sugarlabs org>]

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 03:52, Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 03:41:37AM +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> At Sugarlabs we are interested in making a spreadsheet activity, and
>> we recently noticed that recent builds of Gnumeric expose quite a bit
>> of functionality via libspreadsheet.
> It's not just 'quite a bit' it is all of gnumeric.   The actual
> gnumeric wrapper is actually pretty trivial.
>
>> Is there any way in which libspreadsheet can be used to build a
>> standalone spreadsheet application ? I noticed wbc-gtk.h, but it seems
>> to return a already realized window, with toolbars and everything. Is
>> there something that I'm missing ?
>
> WorkbookControl the abstract base is meant to be the interface from
> the non-gui core out to the display.   it's derived form,
> WorkbookControlGtk, is meant to manage a gtk front end.  However,
> there is a fair amount of functionality built into wbcg.   All of
> the menu actions and such.  Pulling that apart would take a fair
> amount of work.   Would it be sufficient to use a simplified xml
> file to build a smaller UI ?

You mean that by replacing the gtk builder file we could be left with
only the workbook widget on the top level window??

Thanks,

Tomeu

>> (in a related note, I did a bit of ugly re-parenting from the window
>> returned by wbcg_toplevel, and got
>> http://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/spreadsheet/Screenshot.png)
> Neat.
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