Parametric QML-Shapes, Filetype

[Thorsten Zachmann]

On Monday 17 June 2013 00:21:12 David Lanzendörfer wrote:
> Hi Folks
> I was thinking about adding the feature for QML specification of parametric
> shapes into calligra flow.
> The only problem is that we would need to put the support for this into any
> other application processing ODG files as well or the application will most
> likely crash.
> Otherwise maybe we could introduce a separate filetype for flow documents?
> What's your opinion on this?

Nice and cool idea.

If you create that as a flake plugin then all calligra applications can use 
this. Also it would be good to have a fallback image/svg representation so 
other office suites can also display the resulting data. 
The data can be saved to odf in a <draw:frame> which allows differnet 
represetations of the document.
It does not need any seperate filetype for this to work as odf should provide 
all you need to save it and load a flackback svg/image in a different 
application.

For me the bigger problem is how this will be painted but I will look forward 
on how you think you can do this.

Have a nice day,

Thorsten