Developer's Guide is now in the Wiki

The OpenOffice.org Developer's Guide is now available online in the OpenOffice.org Wiki. The main purpose of moving the guide into the wiki is for maintenance reasons and the hope to get more contributions. We also hope to get a localized version of the guide to reach more users/developers all over the world.

But before anybody will start with localization i would suggest to wait for the official go becaue the guide requires some guidelines to keep the guide well formed in general and especially for later post processing (e.g. export of the whole wiki book/guide to PDF). The guidelines will also document some extensions like the IDL tags that are useful to link directly in the IDL reference and that are used to generate cross references from the IDL reference back into the DevGuide. But anyway you will get more infos soon and i am looking forward to a faster growing, an improved and always up to date guide.

Overview of the IDL tags

<idl>com.sun.star.text.XText</idl> -> com.sun.star.text.XText
<idls>com.sun.star.text.XText</idls> -> XText
<idlm>com.sun.star.text.XText:insertTextContent</idlm> -> insertTextContent
<idlmodule>com.sun.star.text</idlmodule> -> com.sun.star.text
<idltopic>com.sun.star.text.XText</idltopic> -> will be ignored and is used for the cross references only. should be used to mark chapters where this type(s) are described in detail.

You should also be aware of the fact that not all images are uploaded yet but Clayton is working on it. At this point i would like to thank Clayton Cornell for his great work on the migration into the wiki.

tags: api developer's guide

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