Chynte, thank you for your email. I believe although I'm not sure that PyUno is deprecated . But your suggestions are of technical nature, may I suggest you continue that part of the discussion on our developers' mailing list? http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
Best, Charles. 2011/2/15 Chynte <[email protected]> > On 23.01.2011 00:53, Christoph Noack wrote: > >> Hi Chynte! >> >> Am Samstag, den 22.01.2011, 22:13 +0100 schrieb Chynte: >> >>> Hi, >>> after following this mailing list for a while, today I want to ask for >>> your opinion about two features I miss in Impress. >>> >>> The first feature is linked to the custom slide shows. [...] >>> The problem is, that the automatic >>> page side numbering is not able to handle custom slide shows. >>> >> Mmh, I don't know a solution for this. Sorry :-\ >> >> But since Impress usually supports jumping to other (hidden) slides in >> the presentation in any case, this might be required ... even if you >> exclude (e.g.) slide 5, you can change to slide 5 by "5 ENTER" (another >> feature important for some other users). To solve this, it requires a >> bit more work ... >> >> The second missing feature is support for automatic ToC- and >>> Index-Tables as they are implemented so nicely in Writer. >>> >> Concerning the ToC - what is missing when using the "Insert - Summary >> Slide" feature? >> >> [...] >> >> What is your opinion? Do you agree that these two features could be >>> helpful for others? >>> >> I think yes - do you know whether there are issues (request) for this at >> OOo or LibreOffice? This might help to evaluate how much this is >> requested by others as well. >> >> Regards, >> Christoph >> >> >> > After digging around, I think, I should be able to program the needed > features (ToC, slide numbers matching custom slide show) on my own. > I would prefer to use Python and PyUNO for this. > > Before I start, I would like to ask the list for giving me feedback for the > following questions: > 1. For generating a ToC I need to store somewhere, if the title should > appear in the ToC or not. > Where can I store this information? > I found the "Description" and the "Name" tags I could use but I fear, that > this will interact with other software also using these tags... > > 2. Maybe I want to add also an alphabetical Index linking to the most > important keywords at the end of the presentation (remember, people will get > a printed version of the slide show). > Where can I store the information, that a specific word should appear in > this Index? You know I see problem with using "Description" and "Name" tags. > For an index it is again more complicate since a word itself has no > "Description" tag. > Using the "Description" tag of the object, in which the text appears, gives > the problem, that deleting the text does not automatically delete the entry > --> How can I detect in that case, that the word is deleted except doing a > rescan all the time? > > 3. Is Python/PyUNO the good choice for programming this feature in Impress? > Can you tell me Pro´s and Con´s? > > 4. What´s about the needed skills? Do you think, this project is feasible > for someone who made up to now only very small standalone apps "just for > fun" in Python? > > Thanks for your remarks > > Chynte > > > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] > Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ > *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity *** > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
