Re: status of PyKDE and Python KOffice bindings

On Fri, 1 Aug 2008, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:

> On Fri, 1 Aug 2008, Bogdan Bivolaru wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I'd like to make a Python plugin for using KOffice to check out an ODF
> > document from a SVN repository, modify it, make a diff and then check in.
> > I've seen KOffice 2.0 is in alpha state, what's the status of the Python
> > bindings in KOffice 2.0? What about Kross for KOffice?
> > What's the plan ahead of us for KOffice?
> 
> For the KOffice libraries there aren't really bindings as there are for kdelibs,
> so you cannot do an import "kotext" or import "kostore" in your python script.
> But the kross bindings should be good enough and usable, with the proviso that
> I don't think there are explicit commands to modify an ODF dom from within a
> KOffice application, rather there are commands exposed that change the document
> in terms of the application-internal object model. What is really needed is someone
> who takes the current set of objects and methods exposed to Kross and who,
> while writing scripts, makes notes of what's missing and adds those missing bits
> to the scripting plugins.

_Actually_ it turns out I was unaware of the KoScriptingOdfReader class. That provides
access to an odf document, as far as I can see.

Boudewijn

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