Re: iWork Pages Plugin
Re: iWork Pages Plugin
- Subject: Re: iWork Pages Plugin
- From: "I. Savant" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 14:37:26 -0400
Unfortunately, an application either supports plug-ins or it does
not. Pages does not. Short of reverse-engineering the application and
employing some serious hackery (which you would not be legally
allowed to distribute anyway), this is a complete dead end for you.
I don't believe there is a specific developer mailing list for
Pages (typically commercial applications don't have these things), so
you'll have to settle for sending a suggestion to Apple and hoping
they implement it at some point in the future.
--
I.S.
On May 22, 2006, at 2:28 PM, Andy Somogyi wrote:
Hello
From what I understand, Pages is not based on the Cocoa text
system, and
currently does not support custom control plugins.
What would be the right list to ask if any plugin concept is
planned for Pages?
Although I do not know any internal details of the Pages
architecture, every page layout / word process or application I've
seen was based around a collection of some type of object that
occupied some fixed size, and a layout manager was responsible for
laying these out.
So, I'm guessing that Pages uses some sort of object, possibly
similar to NSTextAttachmentCell which represents a rectangular page
area. I'm also guessing that is probably would not be that hard to
allow 3'rd party developers to implement this interface and have
Pages display these custom controls.
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