Subject: completeness of Perl bindings
From: Vlad Harchev (hvv@hippo.ru)
Date: Wed Jun 20 2001 - 02:30:48 CDT
Hi,
First of all - it's so much wonderful that Perl bindings are available
and are even documented :) !
Looking at the HOWTO, it seems they can be extended a bit.
* it seems that there is no ability for printing of the document (using
default settings at least)
* There should be a way to insert a non-latin1 text into AW using bindings too
(it may already be possible through the bindings and the latest Perl -
dunno) - but I propose to add the following methods (very cheap to implement):
writeUnicode( <unicode value here>)
writeutf8("<utf8 string here>")
After something like this will be available, everybody will be able to use
perl bindings for adding data in their own language.
* To make bindings functionally complete, operations for getting range of
current selection, retriving arbitrary range of text and
extending/shrinking/begining/resetting selection should be available, and for
at least only inserting images too.
* Also it would be nice to have something for editing page setup (size,
orientation, etc).
* Finally a commandline option that after starting AW executes named script is
necessary to provide full automation.
Having this functionality available, AW will be a real tool to do some office
automation!
Thanks again for the bindings - it's a wonderfull thing to have!
Best regards,
-Vlad
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