Re: [tdf-discuss] Feature request for LibreOffice Impress

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 <chynte@googlemail.com>

> 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
>
>
>
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