29 Mar
2009
29 Mar
'09
1:25 a.m.
2009/3/29 Jon A. Cruz wrote:
Ok. For this one, first and foremost you need to ascertain what the possibilities and best choices actually are. Don't just guess.
Check to see
- what data flavors does MS Office offer
- what data flavors does MS Office accept
- what data flavors does OpenOffice offer
- what data flavors does OpenOffice accept
- what data flavors does GTK+ offer
- what data flavors does GTK+ accept
In the past, #5 and #6 have been blockers. If they don't allow something, then adding support in an application won't help.
There is a utility you can use for some debugging of that: http://sourceforge.net/projects/dragndrop/
Oh, and as to MS publishing a spec... historically that hasn't really helped with the actual implementation of code.
And to get an idea what one would be dealing with, it's worth reading http://sk1project.org/modules.php?name=Report
Alexandre