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| author | Michael Stahl <mstahl@redhat.com> | 2012-05-25 14:13:02 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Stahl <mstahl@redhat.com> | 2012-05-25 14:13:02 +0200 |
| commit | f327c359033c027a58933db49e80a2bd927ca923 (patch) | |
| tree | 0ba773f106dce20f7d9f7e736eb9cb63ebc33271 /sfx2 | |
| parent | cad983994944ca2cfcb27aa6e8a0181df63803b7 (diff) | |
sfx2: improve README
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| -rw-r--r-- | sfx2/README | 14 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/sfx2/README b/sfx2/README index 7170fdb56ddd..143483439c62 100644 --- a/sfx2/README +++ b/sfx2/README @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ -This is core gui code, containing base-classes for documents +SFX is the "old" framework, used for historical reasons. + +It contains base classes for document model, view and controller, used +by "old" applications like sw, sc, sd (while "new" applications +are based on the "new" UNO based framework in "framework"). + +The SFX framework is based on dispatching slots identified by integers +(SlotIDs) to SfxShells, and there is a dedicated IDL compiler (svidl) +involved that generates C++ slot headers from SDI files in modules' sdi/ +subdirectory. Document load/save code is maintained in [git:sfx2/source/doc/docfile.cxx] SfxMedium class, which handles all the twisty load and save corner cases. @@ -6,3 +15,6 @@ SfxMedium class, which handles all the twisty load and save corner cases. [git:sfx2/source/applappl/sfxhelp.cxx] Start procedure for the online help viewer top level window; handling of help URL creation and dispatch. + +There are also some UNO services here that could really be implemented +anywhere, e.g. the DocumentProperties or DocumentMetadataAccess. |