With all due respect, I have to disagree. Sukesh is working on a set of classes to read Power Point. Perhaps when he (she?) finishes, the source code will be donated to this community. Even if it is not, the discussion of Power Point formats and internals may inspire someone else to deliver a Power Point API for POI.
There are many reasons why it may not be possible for Sukesh to contribute the actual code he develops. For instance, if the code he develops is work for hire, he does not own it. He may not be able to sign the required Apache Contributor License Agreement. He may be using other open source that conflicts with the Apache license. Even if he does not contribute any code, he is still a user (at least a user of POIFS). This is a good community to draw on for knowledge of Microsoft Office binary file formats. In fact, I don't know of any other open source community that provides this kind of knowledge for Java. I for one encourage Sukesh to continue asking questions. -----Original Message----- From: Andrew C. Oliver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 11:15 AM To: POI Developers List Subject: Re: PowerPoint Info This is help for people working on POI. If you're working on your own port of PowerPoint, do not ask THIS community to help you. If you want the support of this community, support this community with your code. -Andy On 8/24/03 11:20 PM, "Sukesh M Prabhakar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I am working on reading the binary stream of PowerPoint. > > I needed information regarding the psrRefernce variable in the > SlidePersistAtom. The documentation for the Microsoft SDK says > psrReference is a logical reference to the slide persist object. > > Whenever a slide is edited and modified, the value of this variable may or > may not change. > When a slide is added or deleted also this variable changes value. > So, I need to know the things that affect the value of this variable.How is > the value calculated? > Can someone provide some information regarding this detail? > > > > Thanks and Regards > Sukesh Manjunath > > > > --Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, > but by the moments that take our breath away. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Andrew C. Oliver http://www.superlinksoftware.com/poi.jsp Custom enhancements and Commercial Implementation for Jakarta POI http://jakarta.apache.org/poi For Java and Excel, Got POI? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
