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- Subject: Re: ODF Support for Multiple Kinds; Key ODF Advantage
- Sent: 5/29/96 9:33 AM
- Received: 5/29/96 10:01 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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- >(1) Each supported "kind" as a separate FW_Content subclass.
- >
- No, the content class represents your data. It is independant of the
- format you are using. FW_CContent should have (and will have) method to
- externalize/internalize using one specific kind.
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- >(2) A class registry where a part editor would register its kinds for
- >persistent storage, in order of fidelity, in the FW_CPart::Initialize
- >override. Perhaps a similar scheme could be used for clipboard and
- >drag and drop storage/promises, too.
- >
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- >(3) ODF would use this to coordinate the whole
- >Internalization/Externalization process. I supply my kinds - ODF does
- >the rest!
-
- In future release of ODF you will have something like that but it will be
- resource based. You will only have to create a resource describing what
- kind you are supporting and which one is the prefered kind and ODF will
- do the rest.
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- Henri Lamiraux lamiraux@apple.com
- Apple Computer, Inc. OpenDoc(tm) Development Framework
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