<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Hello Michael and the dev team,</div><div><br></div><div>The link provided is a big system, its overwhelming and I may be too new to be at the developer's level.</div><div><br></div><div>May I know the directions to take on creating extensions?</div><div> </div><div>Nicholas<br>SCJP, LPIC-2, CTP (CIPD, UK)<br>(URL http://tboxmy.blogspot.com )<br></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Michael Meeks <michael.meeks@suse.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> t_boxmy@yahoo.com<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> libreoffice-dev
<libreoffice@lists.freedesktop.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, October 19, 2011 4:53 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: Instruction to develop extensions<br></font><br>
Hi Nicholas,<br><br>On Tue, 2011-10-18 at 22:57 +0200, Andreas Mantke wrote:<br>> Nicholas wrote:<br>> > I have experience in Java, PHP and C. Please advice how I can<br>> > get started to create LibreOffice extensions and if there are<br>> > any mentors available.<br><br> I suspect this very much depends on what you want to do :-) What sort<br>of functionality do you want to provide with an extension ? often the<br>best, quickest, cleanest, smallest and easiest way is to do that as part<br>of the core product; or to do part of it in the core - adding new<br>extension points as you do that.<br><br> So - can you expand on what you want to do ? in the meantime getting a<br>build would be a good idea (easiest on Linux), instructions here:<br><br> http://www.libreoffice.org/get-involved/developers/<br><br> All the best,<br><br>
Michael.<br><br>-- <br><a ymailto="mailto:michael.meeks@suse.com" href="mailto:michael.meeks@suse.com">michael.meeks@suse.com</a> <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot<br><br><br><br></div></div></div></body></html>