[kde-edu]: KVocTrain rewrite - feature list and usecases

[Dennis Haney]

Dominique Devriese wrote:

>Dennis Haney writes:
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>>>>>Second the kvtml file format itself. The minimum changes I would
>>>>>like to do are adding an attribute to the <e> element for storing
>>>>>the rowheight used when displaying the vocabulary, and adding
>>>>><sound> and <image> child elements to the <o> and <t>
>>>>>elements. Sound and image are needed to create a flashcard
>>>>>program that can use this type of data. The elements would
>>>>>contain URLs linking to sound or image files.
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>>>>My plan was to save these (picutre/sound) files in the kvtml file
>>>>aswell. My plan is then to change the kvtml filetype to be a
>>>>collection filetype, like openoffice packs its files as zip
>>>>archives holding the pictures/sound etc. as seperat entities in
>>>>the file..  My logic is that the user is unlikely to guess (know?) 
>>>>that there are several files to copy, when (s)he makes a
>>>>backup. And it will be difficult to figure out which
>>>>(sound/picture) files belong to which kvtml file.
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>>>Yes, I'm aware of this problem. Your solution is more complete. I
>>>don't know how to create and work with such files, but I guess
>>>there is code in KOffice also?
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>>If I can't find anything, I'll contact Trolltech to hear them if
>>they are interested in such a feature...
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>If you are talking about the code that maintains a zip archive
>containing the document together with external data like images and
>such, then KOffice has this already, yes: look in koffice/lib/store.
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I am, yes. This is great news :-)

>Unfortunately, this code is not usable from kdeedu, because we can't
>make kdeedu dependent on KOffice
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I'm guessing more than just us and them have this requirement to storing 
files...
I'll talk to them after I look at the code and see if we can seperate it 
into a seperat library (which we can depend on).


-- 
Dennis

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