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Revision as of 09:41, 14 September 2007

Framework Lead: Carsten Driesner Framework Co-Lead: Mathias Bauer

This is the Framework Project Wiki. It is planned to move most content from the http://framework.openoffice.org pages into the Wiki. Probably most interesting for many people is, what we are currently doing in the Framework project. You can find that in the work in progress area. One of the bigger things is to better support extension developers.

The Framework Wiki follows this organization.

Functional Overview

Framework Overview.png

Work in progress

  • Extending the UNO AWT toolkit to better support extension developers.
    • Check the current UNO AWT implementation to find errors and wrong documentation
    • Rework the UNO AWT IDL documentation. Especially clarify which are really deprecated interfaces/services
  • An UNO API for the application document titles
  • Docking windows in LayoutManager (preparation for usage in extensions)
  • Vista Readiness
  • Further work on the tabbed windows extension
  • Create tutorials for various framework features.
    • Popup Menu Controller
    • Status bar and controllers



To Dos

You can find a list of tasks that we would like to implement but until now didn't find the time to do so. These tasks can be implemented by experienced C++ developers that want to help us. You would definitely get support or help of the regular framework developers. If you are interested to work on one of these tasks please contact us on our "dev" mailing list or via e-mail to the framework project lead.

Needed skills: C++, Windows API
Difficulty: Medium
Contact: cd at openoffice dot org

  • Toolbar and popup menu controllers which are more powerful and easier to use than the current ones.

Needed skills: C++, GUI experience
Difficulty: Medium
Contact: cd at openoffice dot org

  • Improve code handling configuration settings
    • Cleanup the code of configuration items (make them write-through instead of write-back with their own cache) to support immediate updates on configuration changes.
    • Update the 'Tools - Options' dialogs to support the read-only OpenOffice.org configuration item state.

Needed skills: C++, configuration background
Difficulty: Medium/Hard
Contact: cd at openoffice dot org

  • User interface to associate templates to existing documents

Needed skills: C++, GUI experience
Difficulty: Medium
Contact: cd at openoffice dot org

Needed skills: C++, GUI experience
Difficulty: Medium/Hard
Contact: cd at openoffice dot org

  • Implement start center for Mac without using a main window

Needed skills: C++, GUI and Mac OS X experience
Difficulty: Medium
Contact: cd at openoffice dot org

  • Implement a fancy user interface for the user interface migration feature. OpenOffice.org can currently migrate user changes between versions. It would be nice for experienced users to select changes with a fancy user interface.

Needed skills: C++, GUI experience, User interface design
Difficulty: Medium
Contact: cd at openoffice dot org

  • Tabbed-Window interface: Enhanced the current implementation to support a tabbed window user interface. There is a simple extension available which can be used as a starting point.

Needed skills: C++, GUI experience, experience with MVC concepts
Difficulty: Medium/Hard
Contact: cd at openoffice dot org


Articles & Tutorials

Contributions

Patches are most welcomed by the framework project. Those who submit patches deserve a lot of credit for dealing with a build enviornment which to say the very least can be intimating. To acknowledge the efforts of these people and the work they have put in here is a little info on them. If I have forgotten anyone here or there was omissions or something just plain wrong send an e-mail to cd@openoffice.org.


Framework Terms

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