creating your own templates in write activity

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 19:18, Manusheel Gupta<manu at laptop.org> wrote:
> Tomeu,
>
> Hope all is well.
>
> We have been working on developing a template builder tool in write
> activity, and wish to have your pointers on certain features-
>
> 1. Text box - We realize that the text box tool is missing in the current
> write activity, and wish to develop it. We looked at abiwidget.h file
> closely, and it seems to us that there
>      is no method (function) provided to add textboxes. We investigated
> deeper into the details, and arrived at an approach to develop the text box
> feature-
>
>        a. Create a textbox class on the lines of tablecreator class-  It
> seems that we need to work on 4 files:
>
>             1. OXML_Element_TextBox.cpp
>             2. OXML_Element_TextBox.h
>             3. OXMLi_ListenerState_TextBox.cpp
>             4. OXMLi_ListenerState_TextBox.h
>
>       b. Use invoke_cmd method to insert Textbox.
>           We are not very clear on what all arguments can be passed in this
> method, and their usage. Could you please direct us to a resource, which
> could be helpful in
>           understanding this.

I think Martin's answer has been very complete, are you already set on
this one? I recommend you to send these questions to the abiword-devel
mailing list where you will find Martin and the other Abiword
developers:

http://www.abisource.com/developers/

> We also wish to ask you about the details of the code, which is used to
> enable menu selections in the advanced abiword activity.

What do you mean by "enable menu selections" and "advanced abiword activity"?

Also, could you explain what are you trying to accomplish?

Thanks,

Tomeu

> Thank you.
>
> Manu
>