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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. |