28 January 2007 23:30
api: Project Home
The API project provides an entry point in the world of OpenOffice.org from a developers perspective.
OpenOffice.org offers a language independent application programming interface (API) which allows to program the office in different programming languages (e.g. C , Java, Python, CLI, StarBasic, JavaScript, OLE). It allows to use OpenOffice.org as service provider in other applications, extend it with new functionality or simply customize and control OpenOffice.org.
The popularity of the standardized (OASIS and ISO/IEC 26300) Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) is growing. This also drives the popularity of OpenOffice.org office in general. Corporate users often demand the integration of office productivity into existing workflows and applications. They also often require additional functionality or special customizations of the existing features. And that is one of the main goals of the API project. Provide the possiblitly to customize or control the office that it fits well in your existing environment or fullfill your special requirements.
Software Development Kit
SDK logo There is also a Software Development Kit (SDK) available which is an add-on for an existing OpenOffice.org. It provides the necessary tools and documentation for programming the OpenOffice.org APIs and creating your own extensions (UNO components) for OpenOffice.org. If you are interested in OpenOffice.org programming, you can download the SDK.
The OpenOffice.org API is based on UNO (Universal Network Objects) and consists of a wide range of interfaces defined in a Corba-like IDL. While the component technology determines how the components or applications communicate with each other and how the API is accessed from specific programming languages, the OpenOffice.org API defines the interface for accessing office functionality independently from certain programming languages. Get a first impression of the design goals or get a detailed description of the OpenOffice.org API and their concepts from the Developer's Guide and/or in the IDL reference.
Code Snippets: If you search a quick answer to any API related question please visit our Code Snippet Base. And if you like this kind of knowledge base you are welcome to help us to improve and to extend this code snippet collection (see how to contribute).
What's new
The ease of use of an API depends firstly on the API itself and secondly how well it is supported by development tools. We have started two projects to provide better tools support for the OpenOffice.org API in the two main open source Java development IDEs NetBeans and Eclipse. You can find more detailed information about the NetBeans integration in the OO wiki where you can also download the plugin. Visit OpenOffice.org & Eclipse for information about the Eclipse plugin.
We have started an API Wiki where we will provide additional information in the future. The OO.org Wiki is growing fast and in fact of the easy access (instead of cvs) we will provide more and more information there. Currently we are evaluating the transmission of the Developer's Guide into the Wiki to open the guide for translation and for faster and easier writing of new or changing of existing chapters. Stay tuned for further announcments of this!
28 January 2007 23:15
fr: Documentation
by 1 otherCes outils sous forme de scripts sont des aides dans votre utilisationquotidienne d'OpenOffice.org. N'hésitez pas à nous apporter un retour sur ceux-ci, cela nous permet de les améliorer, d'en réaliser d'autres en fonction de vos demandes. Vous pouvez également proposer les votres sur la liste dev@fr.openoffice.org, nous nous ferons un plaisir de les ajouter ici. Merci à tous ceux qui ont donné ces outils à notre communauté. La colonne 'V2' indique que le document a été mis à jour vers la version 2.
28 January 2007 23:00
OOo.HG pour OpenOffice 2.0 avec Cart'OOo, Atlas'OOo, Chron'OOo, Diap'OOo. Libre et gratuit.
by 12 othersL'alternative
gratuite et libre
pour créer facilement
tout document
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Projet Dsciences
by 1 otherL'extension DSciences permet de rendre votre suite bureautique OpenOffice 2 plus dynamique et efficace. Elle permet une meilleure production de documents scientifiques (cours, présentations assistées par ordinateur avec OpenOffice Impress, exposés , devoirs, etc...) en s'adaptant à vos besoins.
La création de documents attrayants n'a jamais été aussi simple !
Dmaths : macro pour faciliter l'édition de formules mathématiques sous openoffice ou staroffice.
Dmaths est un logiciel qui s'intègre aux suites bureautiques OpenOffice ( libre ), StarOffice et NeoOffice ( Mac OS X ) et qui facilite l'édition de formules mathématiques et/ou scientifiques. Il permet également d'utiliser directement votre logiciel de dessin préféré et d'incorporer des graphes de fonctions dans un document.
Tout comme openoffice, ce logiciel est donc disponible sous Windows, Linux ou Mac OS X, et est sous licence GPL. Vous trouverez des explications supplémentaires et des captures d'écran de la barre d'outil sur la page de présentation. Cette animation vous permettra de voir rapidement les avantages de Dmaths.
28 January 2007 22:15
OOoLilyPond - Using LilyPond in OpenOffice.org
OOoLilyPond is a macro for OpenOffice.org that simplifies the integration of music notation in OpenOffice.org Writer, Impress and Draw. It can be used to write a book on music theory or to write down exercises for music instruments or voices which need to be commented with lots of text.
The music expression is entered as a text code in the LilyPond language and then rendered into an image. It needs some time to get familar with the LilyPond language but once learned, small pieces of music are entered much faster than with any other sofware.
The author likes to thank Geoffroy Piroux who has written the macro OOoLaTeX. OOoLilyPond has been derived from OOoLaTeX.
Samuel Hartmann, December 2006
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