On 15 March 2012 16:52, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <kosse...@kde.org> wrote: > Am Montag, 12. März 2012, 08:40:13 schrieb Adam Pigg: >> Kexi could do with an implementation of barcodes based on this, becuase the >> current version is hand-built, not using any library, and while it is >> assumed to work, its certainly not backed up with anything fully tested. > > Hm, I still am surprised that the Kexi reports are not (yet?) also based on > flake shapes. What is the reason for this? No one had time to start/do/finish > work on that?
Friedrich, Thanks for this question. Quick answer is: they are based on openRPT, which predates flakes and even Qt Graphics View. Also the technology is different: reports are in-memory objects, not multiplied and serialized into a file. Report XML for these and other reasons are not just ODTs. > > Could doing this perhaps be done together with implementing support for form > letters? And as the same time as implementing support for assigning data(base) > sources to diagrams, like database tables or sheet areas or rss feeds or other > table like data sources (with a snapshot of the data for the case the source > is not accessible)? At least I hope there is quite some code reuse possible > here. Connecting to the bibliography data sources is another thing which could > be aligned in this work. And text variables might be also extended to pull > their data from other sources then the built-in. This is all inependent of flakes. We have threads like this, where someone proposed assigning SQL statement to a flake shape. This is NOT the best integration. On the last calligra sprint I presented and descussed areas for integration. Generating ODTs is one of them but this is extra type of report (mail-merge like). The standard reports are frame-based; paragraphs are not there by default. Flake shapes can be embedded as any other objects on the canvas of course. > I would be interested to do something here. Please tell me about any > work/plans/experiments of yours here, otherwise I would simply start from the > scratch on sketching how this could be done. Looking forward to meet up with > others to discuss this then at Akademy or a Calligra sprint? Very good, Friedrich, we can work together on this. > BTW: The rename of Calligra Tables to Calligra Sheets makes actually quite > some sense to me, as I often had database tables in mind when reading the name > Calligra Tables before ;) Yeah :) -- regards / pozdrawiam, Jaroslaw Staniek http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek Kexi & Calligra (kexi-project.org, identi.ca/kexi, calligra-suite.org) KDE Software Development Platform on MS Windows (windows.kde.org) _______________________________________________ calligra-devel mailing list calligra-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/calligra-devel
