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OpenOffice.org SDK Released

Posted by michael on from the infinitely-extendable dept.

Jules V.D. writes "The OpenOffice.org group on Friday announced a kit that lets programmers build new modules for open-source alternatives to the Microsoft Office suite.This new SDK is an add-on for OpenOffice.org 1.0.2. It provides the necessary tools and documentation for programming the OpenOffice.org APIs and creating your own extensions (UNO components) for OpenOffice.org."The highlight of this SDK is the new Developer's Guide. This comprehensive guide provides, in 900 pages, a detailed description of the OpenOffice.org API concepts, the OpenOffice.org UNO component model and how to use the API in the context of the different application areas.""

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  1. Re:Who is doing all this work? by gimpimp · · Score: 4, Informative

    Sun have engineers working on it, as do Ximian.
    You can check out some of Ximian's work, here.

    cheers,

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  2. Re:BZZT by Karpe · · Score: 4, Informative

    No they didn't.

    It is (was) a little known fact that OO can connect to mysql using ODBC. It is just a little hard getting it to work, but you can find info here and here. You can have an access lookalike with OO, ODBC and mysql.

  3. Re:flight sim.. by bankman · · Score: 3, Informative

    Oh, there is, in OpenOffice calc. Check this article for easter eggs in OSS.

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  4. Re:Open Source Blows by Spiritd0g · · Score: 3, Informative

    May I suggest OpenOffice 1.1 beta with footnote support? Never hurts to peruse their feature list from time to time. Works just fine.