[Libreoffice] Using LibreOffice Editor as a widget in a third-party application

Lubos Lunak l.lunak at suse.cz
Wed Mar 9 05:31:38 PST 2011


On Wednesday 09 of March 2011, Tor Lillqvist wrote:
> In general, my opinion would be that if you have any other alternative,
> something that would be specifically designed to be used as a widget, use
> that instead. Because when you come across problems in using LibreOffice
> embedded in another application, there will be very few people interested
> or capable of helping you. This holds especially for Windows.
>
> But I might be too pessimistic (I often am),

 You're not. It holds even for X11. Getting the basics of embedding an app 
into another one is quite easy, but making it reasonably right gets 
increasingly painful, especially if the embedded app has no support for it 
(client side of XEmbed, etc.).

-- 
 Lubos Lunak
 l.lunak at suse.cz


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