[Libreoffice] New Config Variable in Impress

[Stephan Bergmann]

On 09/28/2011 11:00 PM, Rob Snelders wrote:
> I'm looking into bug fdo#35973. But I have trouble finding out how I can
> add config-variables for Impress. Can anybody give me any pointers?

The configuration data is in module officecfg.  There you have schema 
(.xcs) files describing the static layout of the data tree (think of it 
as a hierarchy of structs and lists, with data types like bool and 
string and integer at the leaves) and data (.xcu) files describing the 
actual values (if they need to be preset).  For a new impress flag, say, 
you would need to add to 
officecfg/registry/schema/org/openoffice/Office/Impress.xcs.  The 
corresponding XML schema is described at 
officecfg/registry/component-schema.dtd.  (When you modify anything in 
module officecfg, you also need to rebuild module postprocess, as there 
various small .xcs/.xcu files are packed together into larger .xcd 
files.  Impress.xcs ends up in a main.xcd, see 
postprocess/packregistry/makefile.mk.)

Accessing the configuration data at runtime is done via the configmgr 
UNO services (although there are---rather unnecessary---layers of 
abstraction above those UNO services themselves in the code base, which 
the application code typically uses instead.)

Let me know if you have any further questions (I'm sberg at 
#libreoffice-dev, if you prefer IRC).

-Stephan