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| <META NAME="AUTHOR" CONTENT="Philipp Lohmann"> |
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| <H1>Visual Class Library (VCL) Module</H1> |
| <P><B>Project Owner:</B> <A HREF="mailto:pl@openoffice.org">Philipp Lohmann</A> |
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| <P>VCL is the current toolkit of OpenOffice.org. It provides a |
| complex control system, abstractions for system dependent API's like |
| printing, font discovery, drawing (text and graphics) and the |
| application main loop.</P> |
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| <P ALIGN=CENTER><FONT COLOR="#ffffff"><FONT FACE="Arial, Helvetica"><FONT SIZE=2><B>Subprojects |
| of VCL</B></FONT></FONT></FONT></P> |
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| <P ALIGN=CENTER><FONT COLOR="#00315a"><FONT FACE="Arial, Helvetica"><FONT SIZE=2><B>Part |
| of VCL </B></FONT></FONT></FONT> |
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| <P ALIGN=CENTER><FONT COLOR="#00315a"><FONT FACE="Arial, Helvetica"><FONT SIZE=2><B>Function |
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| <P><CODE><A HREF="plugins/index.html"><FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">plugins</FONT></A></CODE></P> |
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| <P>Currently available for Unix systems only. Supports a pluggable |
| system dependent part for VCL which enables VCL to be based on |
| different system toolkits like gtk, Qt or the like.</P> |
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| <P STYLE="margin-top: 0.17in; page-break-after: avoid"><FONT FACE="Albany, sans-serif"><FONT SIZE=4>Terminology</FONT></FONT></P> |
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| <P>idiom</P> |
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| <P>translation</P> |
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| <P>Control</P> |
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| <P>A user interface element, e.g. a button. On Unix systems these |
| are usually named widgets.</P> |
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| <P>SolarMutex</P> |
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| <P>The mutex vcl protects itself with. VCL is generally not |
| thread safe, but was made thread aware when threads began to be |
| used within OOo. Code outside VCL must acquire the SolarMutex |
| before calling into VCL or risk a crash.</P> |
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