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- Subject: Re: OpenDoc Sources?
- Sent: 5/7/96 7:36 AM
- Received: 5/8/96 12:56 PM
- From: Dave Wilson, dwilson@best.com
- Reply-To: OpenDoc-Interest@CILabs.ORG
- To: OpenDoc Related Technologies Interest List, OpenDoc-Interest@CILabs
-
- Josef,
-
- >I've been playing around with ODF from DR4 and I'm having a bit of a
- >problem actually soaking up everything I'm supposed to do. Is there a
- >tutorial somewhere that will lead me step-by-step though building parts? I
- >can build the sample parts, but when I read through the source code, I
- >always end up wondering "OK, so how was I supposed to know to call that
- >method right there?" I guess after you've been doing it for a while, it
- >all makes sense. The initial learning curve looks like an uphill battle
- >for me right now. :-)
-
- Here are some sources for information:
-
- 1. Apple's Developer University offers a five-day course (that I teach)
- called "Creating OpenDoc Parts" that teaches how to use ODF to build part
- editors.
-
- 2. There are no books on using ODF that I know of, except for Apple's
- forthcoming documentation. They are providing hundreds of pages of
- documentation, however.
-
- 3. A few months ago (I don't remember which issue), Jim Lloyd wrote an
- article for MacTech magazine on writing a part editor using ODF.
-
- ODF is a great way to build OpenDoc parts, so it will probably be worth
- your while learning how to do it.
-
- Good luck,
- -Dave
-
- Dave Wilson
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