Subject: Embedding AbiWord
From: David Mandelin (mandelin@cs.wisc.edu)
Date: Thu Aug 02 2001 - 15:11:14 CDT
Brief intro: I am working on a application for transcribing and
analyzing audio/video data. We are using Python and wxWindows, and the
app will be cross-platform and open-source. We need a word-processing
component for the transcription part and are interested in AbiWord.
Does anyone have any advice on embedding AbiWord? Are there projects
underway? Is there anyone else that needs this?
I know that there are plans to support Bonobo, but we want to be
cross-platform. I've thought of a few possibilities: Bonobo for Gnome,
COM for Win32, ??? for Mac; write a replacement for the App class, write
libraries to send messages to AbiWord; embed a socket server. Using
Bonobo/COM/whatever seems the closest to the AbiWord philosophy, at
least as this newbie sees it.
Anyway, my employer is quite willing to pay me to work on open-source
software. But first we need some idea of what this will involve. If
anyone would give us a hint, or a pointer in the right direction, we'd
be most grateful.
Thanks.
-- Dave Mandelin Wisconsin Center for Education Research
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