Re: Attempt for an UNO Undo API

On 10/28/2010 10:03 AM, Frank Schönheit wrote:
> Hi Mathias,
>
>> I think that editing of OLE objects (and linked sheets are just a
>> variant of them) should stay as they are: while you are editing the
>> object, you might be able to undo parts of the editing, but after
>> leaving the OLE object all changes made in this session can only be
>> undone as a whole. A new API can't remove the intrinsic limitations of
>> this concept.
>
> Not sure I'd sign this. Technically, I could imagine the embedded object
> adding Undo actions to the Undo manager of the container document
> (letting those actions survive/handle the temporary destruction of the
> embedded object when it is deactivated is, well, a challenge only, not
> an impossibility, I suppose :) ).
>
> Whether this is desired from an UX point of view might be a different
> question.

This will break at least if the OLE object is not an OOo object. :-P
Besides that, of course nothing is impossible in software.

Regards,
Mathias

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