Thanks Keiron. Look forward to seeing the example. Can you please announce the commit on this thread for completeness of the archive?
-----Original Message----- From: Keiron Liddle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 5 March 2002 9:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Example extension Hi, I will note the type of extension you are considering. I am going to commit an example extension of a different type to the cvs trunk. This works in a slightly different way but demonstrates the concept. On 2002.03.04 03:00 Adrian Edwards wrote: > Hi Keiron, > > Fair question, although it is not so much which classes to modify that I > am having trouble with, but just the mechanics of constructing and > referencing an extension jar file that I would like to see. Perhaps it > is my lack of experience with the Apache project, but the current > documentation appears to assume some knowledge that I just do not have. > I am confident that seeing _any_ example extension at all, regardless of > its purpose, would clear up my confusion. > > There are a number of extensions I am considering, but each of them > shares the common requirement of leveraging PDF functionality > (understandably) not supported by XSL-FO. So the basic model is that > some custom elements in the FO tree need to produce layout objects that > result in some specific PDF syntax. > > I guess the simplest example would be that we would like something like: > > <my:script-link > script="app.execMenuItem('AcroSrch:Query');" > >Search</my:script-link> > > to result in a text box referencing the following PDF action: > > << /S /JavaScript /JS (app.execMenuItem("AcroSrch:Query");) >> > > Pretty simple stuff, and I can easily follow the processing of > fo:basic-link to create the code I need, but how do I package that code > (or any other) so that FOP recognises script-link and processes it with > my code? > > I look forward to your response (and to the "new way of doing things" > ;-) > > -----Original Message----- > From: Keiron Liddle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, 1 March 2002 8:13 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Example extension > > > Hi, > > It really depends on what type of extension you want to do. > This is an area that will change and become much easier in the future > (in > theory). Examples and help will be available for the new way of doing > things. > > Could you tell us what you want your extension to do so that we have > more > ideas on what type of extensions people are thinking about. Then we can > work out how they should be handled if possible. > > So to answer your question, there are some extensions but it really > depends on what you want to do. > > On 2002.03.01 08:33 Adrian Edwards wrote: > > Hi fop-dev, > > > > Has anyone written a simple(ish) FOP extension that they would be > > willing to share with the list (or even just me) as an example? I'm > > talking full jar file here. The lack of examples (other than the > quite > > complicated SVG extension) in the docs and on the mailing lists is > quite > > frustrating. > > > > We don't have to go through the work of writing it up for publication > > (yet). Just seeing the mechanics of someone else's jar would be great > > for beginners. > > > > Thanks in advance. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
