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4.0 Chapter 4. Sample Scenario of Using an OpenDoc Document

   Throughout this book we have discussed the OpenDoc components.  With The 
   Developer Connection for OS/2 Volume 9 Special Edition, OpenDoc has some 
   simple sample components or parts.  They were included to give the user 
   some idea of what the parts could do and to help developers understand the 
   concept of parts.  These sample parts can be used to demonstrate the 
   concepts behind OpenDoc documents although they may not contain all the 
   functions and features that an advanced user would want to use to create a 
   document.  For example, the 2D Graphics part has a few basic editing 
   facilities, such as a rectangle, circle and freehand drawing. 

   Future part development hopefully will provide parts that have more 
   features and will have a greater variety of components or parts to fulfill 
   the different needs of complex tasks (for example, different word 
   processor parts that have special features, such as extensive table 
   layout, special character handling and foot notes). 

   In this chapter we describe the features of the sample parts that are 
   included in OpenDoc, which is supplied with The Developer Connection for 
   OS/2 Volume 9 Special Edition.  Although you can use these parts to create 
   a document, you have to keep in mind that they are limited. 

   At the end of this chapter we explain how we created some of the OpenDoc 
   documents that you have seen in this book.  The figures that we will be 
   looking at are Figure 1 in topic 1.1 and Figure 3 in topic 1.3.1. 

Subtopics:

   4.1 The OpenDoc Folders
   4.2 Creating an OpenDoc Document
   4.3 Description of OpenDoc Parts
   4.4 Multimedia Templates Folder
   4.5 OpenDoc Examples

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