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- Subject: Re: ODF in an Application?
- Sent: 6/11/96 9:18 AM
- Received: 6/11/96 9:31 AM
- From: Henri Lamiraux, lamiraux@apple.com
- Reply-To: ODF Interest, ODF-Interest@CILabs.ORG
- To: OpenDoc Development Framework Discussion List, ODF-Interest@CILabs.
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- >Howdy,
- > I have a question about using ODF in an existing application in a non-part
- >oriented way. The plan is to use ODF to build a cross platform gui into an
- >application (not a part editor) using ODF. After some investigating, this is
- >looking extremley hard because of the framework's structure around the part
- >editor concept. I know this goes against the whole OpenDoc idea, but
- >is it possible to use ODF (Frames, Windows, Views Controlls) to build an
- >application based gui?
- >
- >Thanks
- >
- >-John Noble
- >
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- It would be very difficult. ODF was designed to be an OpenDoc framework.
- We are using objects like ODShape and ODTransform everywhere in the
- framework layer. The whole scrolling mechanism relies on ODFrame's
- internal transform, etc.... I don't say it would be impossible, but it
- would requiere a lot of work. This is not something we are going to do,
- it would make the framework too much complex to try supporting both
- OpenDoc and non-OpenDoc development.
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- Henri Lamiraux lamiraux@apple.com
- Apple Computer, Inc. OpenDoc(tm) Development Framework
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