> It will be very difficult to communicate with
> StarOffice from programs outside of StarOffice.
> Do you think that you are going to be able to
> write your own application, and then embed a
> StarOffice doc within it?
In that point you're completely wrong! I'm certainly one of the people who know the programming capabilities of StarOffice most and I can tell you, using StarOffice components within external applications is all but impossible as you think. It's not using Bonobo currently, but something very similar. And ever heard about bridges for component models? Beware the butterfly!;-)
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At least that's what the article says, to bring it to a point.
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Ok, then perhaps, I simply don't need an operating system
> It will be very difficult to communicate with
;-)
> StarOffice from programs outside of StarOffice.
> Do you think that you are going to be able to
> write your own application, and then embed a
> StarOffice doc within it?
In that point you're completely wrong! I'm certainly one of the people who know the programming capabilities of StarOffice most and I can tell you, using StarOffice components within external applications is all but impossible as you think. It's not using Bonobo currently, but something very similar. And ever heard about bridges for component models? Beware the butterfly!
Michael