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The new OOo Canvas Framework
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The new OpenOffice.org canvas framework is the successor of the
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system GUI and graphics backend VCL. It is planned for the
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OpenOffice.org 2.0 release, and currently ready in a first developer
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version, with X11, Java, and DirectX/GDI+ backends. This means, that
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basic functionality is available, supplying just as much features as
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to provide a VCL-equivalent feature set (except proper BiDi/CTL
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support).
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For migration purposes, the new canvas and VCL will be shipped with
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OpenOffice.org for quite some time, allowing a step-by-step adaptation
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of the applications. Therefore, the canvas and VCL must somehow
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interoperate, since new code, using the canvas, typically is embedded
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in a VCL-based environment (for example, the OOo windows are still
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provided by VCL. To render into such a window via the canvas, a canvas
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must be constructable from a VCL window). Thus, essentially two new
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methods are provided at VCL's window, namely Window::GetCanvas() and
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Window::GetFullScreenCanvas(). Apart from that small link, canvas and
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VCL are completely separated.
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The canvas framework currently consists of the following two new
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CVS modules, /gsl/canvas and /gsl/cppcanvas. Additionally, a new
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generic graphics tooling is used (but not exclusively by the canvas,
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Armin's recent drawing layer fixups also make use of it), which
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resides in /graphics/basegfx. From these modules, six libraries are
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currently delivered, namely vclcanvas.uno.dll, javacanvas.jar,
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directxcanvas.uno.dll, canvastools680mi.dll, cppcanvas680mi.dll, and
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basegfx680mi.dll.
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The new OOo slideshow engine
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The new OpenOffice.org slideshow engine will replace the current
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Impress-embedded presentation framework with a fully independent UNO
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component, and it will be based on the new canvas. In its current
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state, it is able to provide a basic set of functionality, enabling
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the playback of simple presentations. It furthermore provides features
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like double-buffering, hardware-accelerated alpha-blending (currently
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not on all platforms) and anti-aliased rendering of all primitives.
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In a second step, this new slideshow engine will then be integrated
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with Impress model enhancements and extended PowerPoint import/export
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filters, to implement nearly all of PowerPoint's set of effects.
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The new slideshow engine is currently not accessible from the office
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UI, but included in the installations sets. Thus, other developers can
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start to use the new functionality, and base their own implementations
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on top of that. For the records, the respective UNO implementation of
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the slideshow resides in the slideshow.uno.dll library.
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