Hi Jakob,
thanks for your reply. In general we try to move discussions about
interfaces to "interface-discuss". I forward your mail to this list and
hope that you don't mind following up there.
Ciao,
Mathias
Jakob Lechner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> <frank.meies <at> sun.com> writes:
>>
>>
>> Type: info
>> Title: Introduction of new Smart Tag API
>> Posted by: frank.meies <at> sun.com
>> Affected: sw
>> Effective from: cws smarttags3
>>
>> *Summary*
>> --------
>> New Smart Tag API in ::com::sun::star::smarttags
>>
>> *Description*
>> -------------
>> With OOo 2.2, a first draft of a Smart Tag API has been introduced.
>> That API only provided some basic Smart Tag functionality which had to
>> be enhanced in many regards. An overview about Smart Tags and the
>> current (OOo 2.2) Smart Tag API can be found here:
>>
>>
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Smart_Tags>>
>> [...]
>
>
> I would like to propose an extension of this API:
>
> There is a XController argument passed on to the invokeAction method in
> order to be able to execute actions that interact with the opened
> document. I believe it would make sense to add this parameter to some
> other methods, e.g. the recognize method and the methods which specify
> the actions of a SmartTagType. This way it would be possible to write
> dynamic smarttag components. The behavior of the recognizers and the
> corresponding actions could be adapted to the currently active document.
> You may call it "document-specific smarttag components".
>
> A simple example: Maybe somebody wants to write a smarttag component
> that is able to recognize the occurrence of the author's name in the
> text. In this case the recognize method needs to know the document
> handler so the content of the author field can be retrieved.
>
> Thus I would add a XController parameter in following methods:
>
> com.sun.star.smarttags.XSmartTagRecognizer
> - recognize
>
> com.sun.star.smarttags.XSmartTagAction
>
> - getActionCount
> - getActionID
> - getActionNameFromID
> - isCaptionDynamic
> - isShowSmartTagIndicator
>
>
>
> Best regards
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