Hack Fest March 2010

Lotus Symphony

Access to documents

• Needs interceptors: intercept events and scripts for all objects beneath a root object
  • Buffers inherit from these
• Four approaches for Symphony documents:
  1. Out-of-process with multiple TextInfos?. Intercepter overrides navigation keys, say all moves by next in flow.
  2. Out-of-process with overall TextInfo?. TextInfo? encompasses multiple objects, makes it look like one flat document.
  3. In-process virtual buffer. Only difference to current buffers is that the buffer retrieves and moves the application cursor.
  4. In-process overall TextInfo?. Same as 2, but in-process.
• Prototype these. 3 is simplest to prototype because we can use existing buffer code

Other issues

• Symphony multi-process architecture and resultant freezing
• When leaving app menu bar, no focus on document

Documentation

• Test txt2tags thoroughly to ensure it suits us
• Discuss reorder/revision of user guide

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