porting an OpenOffice viewer

[Runstars]

Could an OpenOffice viewer be ported over rockbox? It would be a nice application to add.

Considering that open office is an open source project, would it be possible?

[JdGordon]

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[gevaerts]

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What JdGordon likely means is that OpenOffice is written in a weird mix of C++, java, javascript, and other languages, for an environment where using another ten megabytes for something is not a problem, and that as such trying to re-use parts of the OpenOffice code in rockbox is likely to only result in lost time and frustration.

As such, the fact that OpenOffice is open source is totally uninteresting.

You could of course find other ODF implementations that are slightly smaller. Keep in mind though that rockbox is GPLv2 or later, and that such implementations should therefore also be under a GPL-compatible license (not just any open source license). Also, rockbox is written in C, and although it may be theoretically possible to get C++ code to work, the general consensus is that this also isn't worth spending too much time on, so such an ODF implementation should ideally also use C.

[saratoga]

Also, note that when you report a post for no reason, you're basically spamming a lot of people with pointless email.  Abusing that is probably a great way to get yourself banned.  

[gevaerts]

Also, note that when you report a post for no reason, you're basically spamming a lot of people with pointless email.  Abusing that is probably a great way to get yourself banned.  

In this case I wouldn't say it was "no reason". JdGordon had locked the thread, and thereby made a response here impossible. Since we usually also don't like new threads to reply to locked threads, Runstars didn't have many options left.

Anyway, I unlocked the thread now, so I suggest we forget all about this and concentrate on the technical things.

[Runstars]

I've found two programs that are able to read odt documents: odfviewer and Visioo-writer , but unfortunately , they are not writen in c. I'm still looking for a C-based OOo documents viewer.

http://code.google.com/p/odfviewer/
http://visioo-writer.tuxfamily.org/EN/index_4.html


I don't know if it's less difficult to port an existing program or to write a plug-in able to read the content of the ODF file. Actually, ODF file is a zip archive including few XML files.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument

I know that it would be very difficult to do what I'm talking about, but if there is any chance to make it possible, I'm going to try it.