Re: GNOME Office, RC1

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Fri, 2002-04-26 at 09:58, Martin Sevior wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Jon K Hellan wrote:
> 
> > Martin Sevior <msevior mccubbin ph unimelb edu au> writes:
> > 
> > > OK, I begin to understand. I have to implement a number of extra functions
> > > to shovel data into and out of the widget in a well defined way. I gather
> > > these are functions like:
> > > 
> > > 	Bonobo_Stream_read
> > > 
> > > To acquire a stream of data. OK. I'm looking through the code of ggv for
> > > how to do this. It's all straight forward I just need to know the names of
> > > the functions evo/bonobo wants and how to define the IDL to get it.
> > 
> > Below is code from Gnumeric (src/bonobo-io.c - stripped of code not (yet?)
> > ported from Gnome 1.)
> > 
> > It is connected to the component main program like this (src/main-component.c)
> > 
> > Regards
> > 
> > Jon Kåre
> > 
> 
> Thanks Jon!
>           This confirms what I suspected from looking at the ggv code. I
> need to register specific callbacks for the required interfaces.
> 
> Then list the interfaces in the oaf file. I guess that evolution needs the 
> 
> Bonobo::PersistStream
> and
> Bonobo::PersistFile
> 
> interfaces. I'll also add the MIME types  for doc,rtf, abw wp and aw
> (for MSWord, RTF, abiword, Word Perfect and Applix). I'll cut and
> paste these from the ggv idl file.
> 
> Does evolution need any other interfaces?
> 
I am not sure, but you can look at
evolution/calendar/gui/e-itip-control*, which is a control that accepts
text/vcalendar data, and is used heavily in Evolution for creating
meetings. So, it's a complete example.

cheers