Extensions

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OpenOffice.org Extensions

OpenOffice.org offers the possibility to develop independent 3rd party extensions. The categories of extensions reach from Basic libraries, packages with Java/JavaScript or Python macros to more sophisticated extensions in form of UNO components implemented in Java, C++ or Python. Even the last category of extensions subdivide in general UNO components providing new implementations for existing functional areas or specialized components like Calc Add-Ins, Add-Ons, DataPilots, Chart Add-Ins or linguistic components (e.g. Spellchecker, Hyphenator or Thesaurus).

The Extensions project provides

• Tools, guidelines and starting informations to develop new functionalities for OpenOffice.org
• Repository of existing Extensions : listing and classification
• Deployment to end-users

Translating these pages

The Extension project has to be strongly binded to Native-Lang communities to relay any locale third party development. So it is strongly welcomed to provide translation for the Add-ons but also for the documentation and pages of this site.

The naming convention proposed is to

• Create a new page taking the English page and add your language code as suffix (eg. Extensions_repository_fr)
• Put a link to this translated page at the top of the English page, with the language code
• Be aware that if you start a translation, it would be good to monitor that it remains as in sync as possible

Some extension categories

• Calc Add-Ins provide new Calc built in functions which can be directly used over the normal function dialog in the Calc application.
• Add-ons describe components providing some new functionality and normally coming with an UI integration (e.g. new menu entries or complete new menues, new toolbars).
• DataPilots provide a new kind of data pilot which can be used directly over the DataPilot dialog in the Calc application.
• Chart Add-Ins provide a new chart type
• Linguistic components provides new implementations of know interfaces which can be used directly over the normal UI.

In the future it should be possible to deploy a collection of new document templates or a gallery as extensions as well.

References/Articles

• OpenOffice.org Developers Guide

• Linux Journal: "Off the Wall: Macros and Add-ons"

• In this Wiki : a simple Calc AddIn and a complete AddIn