----- Original Message ----- 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] > >