Hi , First of all Thank you so much for these wonderful comments+Feedback. It is always good to see people make comments on your work whether those are in negative side or positive side .Thanks again ! Really appreciate that . @Wols Yes Wols,I understand that fact very well. As you mentioned this can be consider as an external piece of code which can be integrated if someone likes. Anyway I am eagerly looking forward to contribute in the main code base too . @Christoph Thanks for your feedback Christoph @Dave Thanks for the comment Dave.Actually this extension involves accessing file-systems and some hardware features like web-cam.So I'm in the process of converting those code segments in to their linux version at the moment. Will be looking forward to do the same thing for a MAC :) @Michael Thanks a zillion for that extended reply Micheal .Actually after doing a minor adjustment ,this extension can be easily integrated in to calc or even to draw. The adjustment is ,you have to change the code segment which you use to place the edited image on the document .At the momnet it only detects a Text-document. I will be working on that soon . If anyone interested I referred the <a href="http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=17139">code snippets</a> posted by albertoo on OO forums when implementing the above task .Thanks again for your comment @Laurent and Fernand Thanks a lot for your comments :) <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Fernand Vanrie <<a href="mailto:sos@pmgroup.be">sos@pmgroup.be</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Michael, I agree with your comments, specialy to make this tool available to other than Writer. But can you have a look at a important OO and LO 's weakness: there is no way to make some "Print Intentions" par Document. When placing a Graphic, we need to know what resolution is needed to reproduce a grahic on a certain device(screen laserprinting, offset tect...). Actual, OO and alsoo LO got this information from the GraphicFileHeader, what is wrong concept, the author of a graphic or picture do not know under what conditions his work will been shown or printed. So we need to set par Document this Printer Intentions, and i do not know if this properties can been placed in the ODF format ? Greetz Fernand<div><div></div><div class="h5"> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi Lakmal, On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 02:32 +0530, lakmal padmakumara wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> I'm engaging in developing an extension(OXT) for writer which allows users to </blockquote> Wow :-) there are some great features here - and lots of good work. I love the effort you've put in :-) Personally - (as other people have mentioned) - I would love to have much of this functionality integrated into every LibreOffice copy we ship. We have a number of these features already present in the 'Picture' dialog in writer (crop, flip and so on) - but these are not present in calc and draw/impress (as far as I recall) which is sad. <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> * Download images to the app directly from Flickr.com </blockquote> This is sweet :-) there was a chunk of work done by a GSOC student, that needs completing around the gallery - to allow clipart images to be downloaded; and I suspect that this integration would build on top of that really nicely: are you interested in helping to complete and expand that work ? <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> You need Java Run Time (JRE) in order to use this product </blockquote> And of course; we'd tend to prefer things written in C++, and integrated into the core (as has been discussed). <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> As this is my first step towards this wonderful and giant Open source developing community ,I will be really glad if you can hit me back with any feed backs .Please comment on the above pages mentioning any drawbacks/bugs/improvements . </blockquote> So - first - be encouraged :-) it looks like a fun extension to have written, and a testament to your progamming skill. Of course, from a user-experience perspective, I think we want to focus on improving the integrated feature set, rather than providing (better) duplicates outside - having two ways to do everything: one better, one worse in the product just confuses people :-) Thanks ! Michael. </blockquote> </div></div><div><div></div><div class="h5"> _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list <a href="mailto:LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org" target="_blank">LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice</a> </div></div></blockquote></div> -- Lakmal Padmakumara Undergraduate Computer Science and Engineering Department University of Moratuwa Sri Lanka <a href="http://srilankatechnology.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://srilankatechnology.blogspot.com/</a>