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API@OOo: NEWSLETTER February/2004

Dear OOo community,

This is the February issue of the API@OOo NEWSLETTER.  At the 1st of each 
month, I am summarizing what was going on in the previous month within 
the OOo API project and the OOo SDK.  


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*** OOo API and OOo SDK Highlights this Month
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	- #01: SDK Shared Library Versioning
	- #02: Specification/Implementation Conflict with insertString()
	- #03: Programmatically Accessing Toolbars / Upcoming Feature
	- #04: Closing Documents and Terminating OOo
	- #05: Creating UNO Bindings for Ruby
	- #06: API or XML? That is the Question!


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*** #01: SDK Shared Library Versioning
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Stephan Bergmann presented [1,2] rules about SDK shared library
versioning and compatibility issues.  The results [4] of the discussion 
were later presented [3].

1:http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=9668
2:http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=9673
3:http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=9920
4:http://udk.openoffice.org/common/man/libraryversioning.html


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*** #02: Specification/Implementation Conflict with insertString()
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Bernard Marcelly brought up [1,2] an issue with XSimpleText::insertString().
The spec makes sense but the implementation does not, Michael Hoennig
stated [3].  Because most likely many applications could rely on this broken 
implementation we hesitate to change it [4].  Stepan Wunderlich opened
[5] an issue report for this.

1:http://api.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgId=1049752
2:http://api.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgId=1054200
3:http://api.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgId=1055047
4:http://api.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgId=1058638
5:http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=25033


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*** #03: Programmatically Accessing Toolbars / Upcoming Feature
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Carsten Driesner announced [1] completion of the new implementation of 
our new UNO based user interface configuration API spec [2], including 
access to toolboxes and menus.  This will be part of OOo 2.0.  A backport 
to OOo 1.x is not possible, Carsten stated [3].

1:http://api.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgId=1059949
2:http://specs.openoffice.org/ui_in_general/api/ProgrammaticControlOfMenuAndToolbarItems.sxw
3:http://api.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgId=1059987


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*** #04: Closing Documents and Terminating OOo
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Andreas Schluens gave some statements [1] about closing documents and 
terminating OOo.  Mathias Bauer added [2] some information.

1:http://api.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgId=1065314
2:http://api.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgId=1067310


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*** #05: Creating UNO Bindings for Ruby
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Daniel Carrera asked [1] about pointers for developing Ruby bindings for
UNO.  This might become an interesting project for everybody interested
in Ruby.  Kai Sommerfeld posted [2] some URLs valuable for everybody who
wants to develop new UNO bridges.

1:http://api.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgId=1070261
2:http://api.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgId=1070724


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*** #06: API or XML? That is the Question!
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Michael Hoennig dropped a statement [1] about when to use the API and
when to use XML.

1:http://api.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgId=1088484


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