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aussie149 The Merovingian
Joined: Feb 12, 2005 Posts: 607 Location: Australia
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Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 10:47 pm Post subject: iMedia? |
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Is that Karelia's iMedia, ed? In the meantime, we who wish to tease ourselves could put it in our menu bar for quick implementation
iMedia does allow [by placing them in the "Pictures" folder], access to galleries of clipart in a way that's a bit more intuitive than using Neo's gallery import feature. However, at the moment, it does not appear possible to drag and drop those images from the media browser into Neo docs. I can drag and drop from the browser into some other programs eg TextEdit, Bean.
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OPENSTEP The One
Joined: May 25, 2003 Posts: 4752 Location: Santa Barbara, CA
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Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 12:09 am Post subject: |
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It's derived from that project, but it's already in the process of being customized for Neo to actually interact correctly with runtime and data exchange issues...and removing crashes.
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M-Rick Operator
Joined: Oct 27, 2004 Posts: 45 Location: Le Mans, France
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Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 4:17 am Post subject: |
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Most of the time, I use iMedia Browser which is free, but it doesn't work with NeoOffice. When dragging a picture over NeoOffice, it will paste the name of the picture instead of the picture ...
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OPENSTEP The One
Joined: May 25, 2003 Posts: 4752 Location: Santa Barbara, CA
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Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 11:56 pm Post subject: |
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Yup, and that should look familiar We're working off of that as a base framework but are adapting it for use within Neo.
Just an update that now image and link dragging are functional:
Next up is the more difficult tasks of handling audio and video insertion.
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ovvldc Captain Naiobi
Joined: Sep 13, 2004 Posts: 2352 Location: Zürich, CH
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Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 4:42 pm Post subject: |
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Sweet!
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aussie149 The Merovingian
Joined: Feb 12, 2005 Posts: 607 Location: Australia
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Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 7:55 pm Post subject: Sweet thoughts |
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talk about value-adding You are a marvel. How you and Patrick do what you do is a mystery to me, but a wonderful, terrific mystery.
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OPENSTEP The One
Joined: May 25, 2003 Posts: 4752 Location: Santa Barbara, CA
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Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 10:30 am Post subject: |
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Just another progress update...
Insertion of audio and movies is now complete with some great work by Patrick. Additionally, images and audio from within the gallery is now integrated with the browser. This should provide access to any clip art or audio added to the gallery and allows it to be dragged into the document like any other content from the browser:
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pluby The Architect
Joined: Jun 16, 2003 Posts: 11949
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Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 11:11 am Post subject: |
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OPENSTEP wrote: | Insertion of audio and movies is now complete.... |
One side effect of our work on this feature is that we have enabled dragging of files from the Finder or the desktop directly into a NeoOffice document. This enables some convenient features like populating a Calc document by dragging a .csv file directly into the document, for example.
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Samwise Captain Naiobi
Joined: Apr 25, 2006 Posts: 2315 Location: Montpellier, France
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Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 11:41 am Post subject: |
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pluby wrote: | OPENSTEP wrote: | Insertion of audio and movies is now complete.... |
One side effect of our work on this feature is that we have enabled dragging of files from the Finder or the desktop directly into a NeoOffice document. This enables some convenient features like populating a Calc document by dragging a .csv file directly into the document, for example.
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OPENSTEP The One
Joined: May 25, 2003 Posts: 4752 Location: Santa Barbara, CA
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Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 1:38 pm Post subject: |
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And now with a little toolbar icon for quick access to open it:
(showing the default WAV files in the gallery)
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ovvldc Captain Naiobi
Joined: Sep 13, 2004 Posts: 2352 Location: Zürich, CH
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Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 2:44 pm Post subject: |
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And you are only one month into making NeoOffice 3....
My hat is off to you, gentlemen! |
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pluby The Architect
Joined: Jun 16, 2003 Posts: 11949
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Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 3:07 pm Post subject: |
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ovvldc wrote: | And you are only one month into making NeoOffice 3....
My hat is off to you, gentlemen! |
You won't have to wait until NeoOffice 3.0 for this feature. We have not even started work on upgrading to the OOo 3.0 code yet so all of this feature's development is occurring within the NeoOffice 2.2.3 codebase.
Now that we figured out how to drag video and sound, it really should only take a few more small tweaks to put it into a test patch that people can use. So, our plan is to release NeoOffice 2.2.3 Patch 2 next week with a few more PDF export and menu bug fixes. At the same time, we will post a test patch that has this new feature in it so that within a few weeks or so of testing and fixing any bugs found, we can release this new feature in NeoOffice 2.2.3 Patch 3 in early May.
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rob_06 Captain
Joined: Oct 26, 2006 Posts: 74
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Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 6:08 pm Post subject: |
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Wow wee you guys are going well with this and it will be a rather nice addition to neo office.
I have been watching this thread and am waiting patiently for the test patch to help do some testing as I will have a little more time next month to do it. |
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sardisson Town Crier
Joined: Feb 01, 2004 Posts: 4588
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Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 10:09 pm Post subject: |
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Samwise wrote: | pluby wrote: | OPENSTEP wrote: | Insertion of audio and movies is now complete.... |
One side effect of our work on this feature is that we have enabled dragging of files from the Finder or the desktop directly into a NeoOffice document. This enables some convenient features like populating a Calc document by dragging a .csv file directly into the document, for example.
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Ditto that!
Rock on, gentlemen
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OPENSTEP The One
Joined: May 25, 2003 Posts: 4752 Location: Santa Barbara, CA
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Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2008 12:57 am Post subject: |
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Also note that with Patrick's latest round of enhancements people using Karelia's standalone iMedia package should also be able to use that directly with Neo. The primary differences between it and the embedded one are how drags are handled from the "Links" pane (the embedded version in Neo pastes the text of the link destination), the Photos pane (the embedded version has slightly better quality as it does TIFF conversion rather than BMP conversion), and the embedded version has the inclusion of the Neo Gallery (generally useless, IMHO, unless one has added clipart packs or the oxygen office stuff).
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