[openbeos] Re: suggestions for R1

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From: "Marco Zanon" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2003 11:46 PM
Subject: [openbeos] Re: suggestions for R1


> > maybe you've just suggested
> > something that I COULD DO!  thanks!  i'll give it a shot.
> 
> thank you, I'm ready to help with suggestions if you need to...
> 
> > > 4) take the GPL'ed code from POle, which is a library for
> > > reading OLE streams from files (it could be useful to
> > > developers to have such a library shipped with the operating
> > > system), and is included in the KOffice cvs tree (but AFAIK
> > > it is written in C/C++ only, no Qt or Kde code);
> >
> > i'm not certain that this is neccesary.  i'm more of a hardware
> > guy than software and just don't know much about it, but the
> > previous posts seem to say that Be's default messaging
> > capabilities put OLE to shame and that if you want to embed an
> > app inside another one, replicants really do work wonderfully. 
> > take a look there.
> 
> yes, but that library wasn't meant to reproduce the OLE 
> architecture and embed apps, it is used to read OLE streams from 
> OLE files,
> particularly, it was developed by a very good programmer - Ariya 
> Hidayat - working for the KOffice project, and it was used by 
> Ariya and me for creating a StarOffice 5.x import filter for 
> KOffice,
> so I thought it could be used by BeOS apps for reading OLE files 
> (i.e.: Microsoft Office ones, when we will have an office suite 
> :)
> 

We can't add every lib to the system.
 It probably is a very usefull, but it is not a system library (IMHO).

> thanks :)
> 
> Marco Zanon [http://www.marcozanon.com]
> 
>

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