On this CD you will find the 1.0d11 release of the OpenDoc Development Framework (ODF), formerly known as the OpenDoc Parts Framework (OPF).
This release supports OpenDoc DR4 for Macintosh only. If you want to do Windows part development use the ODF 1.0d8 release, which supports both OpenDoc DR1 for Windows and OpenDoc DR2 for Macintosh. The OpenDoc API has changed so much since DR1 that it became impractical for us to continue to support both APIs in the same code base. In d11 the following development environments are supported: for PowerPC, Metrowerks CodeWarrior 7.0 and Symantec C++ for Power Macintosh 8.0 (Rainbow); and for 68K, Symantec C++ for MPW. Please refer to the specific Build Guide documents located in the "Build System/Installation" folder for instructions on how to build parts and the framework.
Since our 1.0d9 release of ODF on the OpenDoc DR3 CD we've modified our strategy for building ODF using shared libraries. See the document "Shared Libraries" for more information. In the meantime, be aware that the 1.0d11 release requires that all ODF parts statically link in all of ODF. The resulting binaries are therefore bigger than with previous releases of ODF. Don't panic, in future releases most of the Foundation and OS layers will be moved into a System Object Model (SOM) shared library, and the disk footprint of ODF parts will be significantly reduced. The main impact right now is that you no longer need the three ODF shared libraries and should throw them out.
New support has been added to ODF since d10. The most exciting are views and printing (with Quickdraw GX support). See the document "What's changed in d11" for details on what has changed in this release, and what you should do to update your source code.
You may notice some problems when running the sample parts. Be sure to read the "Known Problems" document to see if it's a bug we already know about.
Documentation, release notes, and ReadMe files are all shipped in Acrobat format. Acrobat for Macintosh can be found in the Getting Started folder.
As always we would greatly appreciate any input you may have regarding the framework and how it should evolve to meet your needs. A list server has been set up to handle discussions pertaining to ODF. To get yourself added to the group, send this message to listproc@cilabs.org:
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